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San Francisco Area Home Sales Climb on Investor Purchases

Home sales in the San Francisco Bay Area rose 14 percent last month from a year earlier as investors bought a record share of properties, DataQuick said. A total of 5,702 new and resale houses and condominiums sold in the … Continue reading

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Facebook IPO is sizzling up Silicon Valley real estate

A few months back, Anna Marie Hibble wrote about Bay Area IPOs putting the boom back in our local real estate market.  Zynga and LinkedIn are now public companies but the mother of all IPOs – Facebook – is still … Continue reading

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Tech and the San Francisco Rental Bubble

screenshot via Craigslist.orgA sample list of apartments for rent in SoMa, an area of San Francisco with trendy lofts. I’ve recently learned that real estate brokers in San Francisco have reached a consensus on a topic that entrepreneurs and investors can’t seem … Continue reading

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IPOs Boost Demand for Silicon Valley Homes

A sold sticker is displayed on a for sale sign outside of a home in Palo Alto, California. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg June 15 (Bloomberg) — A surge in wealth from technology stock sales and initial public offerings is spilling … Continue reading

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In Mountain View, 2 Contrasting Economic Worlds Intersect

But closer to downtown, Carolina Rivera finds herself in a decidedly less attractive environment — the crowded office of the Community Services Agency, where she is looking for a job. She has three children to support and has not found … Continue reading

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