Monthly Archives: September 2013

How green can you go? PAE Engineers challenges Bay Area developers

PAE Engineers designed the building systems for the six-story Bullitt Foundation building Seattle that is one of the five “living buildings” PAE has worked on. Blanca Torres Reporter- San Francisco Business Times Email  | Twitter  | Google+  | LinkedIn PAE Consulting Engineers Inc. … Continue reading

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Bay Area Home Prices Cooling Off

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – A research firm said home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area began to cool off last month after a torrid run. California posted its strongest homes sales for any August in seven years as price increases … Continue reading

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Buy your next house from a warehouse

Home builders are facing a tough buyer market, as mortgage interest rates rise and wage growth struggles. They are facing soaring land costs as well as limited labor and supplies. This pushed Pulte to raise prices 9 percent in the … Continue reading

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Creative ways to buy a house

Kevin and Patti Silva needed to buy a house – fast. Along with their two children, three dogs and a cat, they had sold their house in Atlanta and were all packed, with the moving truck scheduled for late May, … Continue reading

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Bay Area home values up 28 percent, luxury home prices leap 11 percent

This home at 3800 Washington St. in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco is on the market for $21 million. It has eight bedrooms, seven bathrooms and 17,895 square feet. Prices for homes above $1 million grew by 11 … Continue reading

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