Monthly Archives: April 2014

Home Prices Hit Pre-Recession Levels In Many Bay Area Cities

Trending Stories On CBS SF Home Prices Hit Pre-Recession Levels In Many Bay Area Cities Stowaway Teen Flies To Hawaii Clinging To Landing Gear After Breaching A Fence At San Jose Airport 8-Year-Old Girl Killed In Cupertino Highway 85 Crash … Continue reading

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Real estate’s least sexy sector is red hot

Amazon.com‘s latest move—to anticipate what you want to buy and start shipping it before you even buy it—could be a big boon to a sector that is already seeing huge gains. Industrial warehouse space, once a dud in real estate, … Continue reading

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Buyers of new homes are seeing more barriers

Contracts for newly built homes dipped slightly last month, and strong October numbers were revised even higher. Article source: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101366971

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Bay Area overall loses jobs, but Santa Clara County and East Bay post gains

The Bay Area lost 2,500 jobs during March, but the region’s long-term employment picture remains bright because of the strong tech sector and a consistent upswing in the South Bay job market, analysts said. The March jobs loss, disclosed in … Continue reading

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Why mortgage rates aren’t higher … yet

Cecala points out, that from the standpoint of the mortgage market, the Federal Reserve is still buying as big a share—and perhaps bigger—of new agency mortgage-backed securities production as it was six months ago. That is because overall mortgage production … Continue reading

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