No. 5: J. Rockcliff
Realtors

Gross sales by Bay Area office(s) in 2012: $2,070,049,206

Gross sales by Bay Area office(s) in 2011: $1,905,265,505

Top Bay Area executive: Jeff Sposito, President

Elizabeth Matsushita
Editorial researcher- San Francisco Business Times

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The top five Bay Area residential real estate firms held strong to their positions this year, though there were a few small surprises. What San Ramon-based real estate firm dominated our Bay Area list, but came in third on our East Bay list? Which of the top five was the only one to see a decrease in Bay Area sales compared to 2011?

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The San Francisco Business Times publishes industry rankings in each issue of the paper and reprints them at the end of the year for our annual Book of Lists. These lists are unique and authoritative sources of Bay Area business news.

To see the full Top 25 list, check out this week’s issue. The other list in this week’s issue is the Largest Residential Real Estate Firms in the East Bay.

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Elizabeth Matsushita is an editorial researcher at the San Francisco Business Times.

Article source: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/03/top-5-residential-real-estate-firms-in.html

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 27.3% increase from the same month last year, though a 6.3% decline from the prior month.

The region posted its strongest January sales pace in six years, popping up 3.2% from the prior month.

A total of 5,501 newly built and previously owned houses and condominiums sold last month.

Foreclosures and short sales made up just over a third of the market last month.

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Article source: http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo--bay-area-housing-20130214,0,4188583.story

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