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Here’s What Is Fueling the Housing Boom in Vegas

Investors swarmed into the Las Vegas market, much like they did in Phoenix, AZ, using all-cash private equity funds to buy distressed properties in bulk. As competition grew and supplies shrunk, prices took off. While still well below the peak, … Continue reading

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Bay Area housing market gets costlier in January

Housing got even costlier in the San Francisco Bay Area last month. For a 10th consecutive month, the median home price in the nine-county region rose year over year to hit $415,000, real estate firm DataQuick reported. That was a … Continue reading

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Bay Area Real Estate Price Gains Driven by Major Supply-and-Demand Shift

<!– Home News Bay Area Real Estate Price Gains Driven by Major Supply-and-Demand Shift –> By Brandon Cornett | January 18, 2013 © 2012, All rights reserved <!– Trending: Mortgage Rates are Rising On August 16, 2012, the average rate … Continue reading

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San Francisco 2nd, San Jose 6th least affordable places to buy in the country

We’ve written numerous times about how crazy expensive buying a home in the Bay Area is for the average folk.  Out comes another survey, this one by the National Association of Home Builders/ Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index, that confirms … Continue reading

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Housing Still Precarious in Obama’s Second Term

The housing market is on the slow road to recovery. Home prices in the last three months rose in 120 out of 149 metropolitan markets surveyed by the National Association of Realtors. Compare that to just 39 rising metros a … Continue reading

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