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Builders Can’t Keep Pace With Demand As Bay Area Housing Booms Again

SUNNYVALE (KCBS)— New townhome projects continue at a rapid pace in Sunnyvale, where home construction can barely keep up with demand. The 14 currently under construction probably won’t be empty for long. Home values increased nearly 11-percent nationwide over the … Continue reading

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Housing: Picking Up the Pieces

As for home building, which had surged to a peak of just over two million housing starts earlier in the decade, by October 2007 builders were starting about half that at 1.2 million. Today, while coming back, starts are still … Continue reading

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Price Reduced on SF Bay’s Red Rock Island

One of the Bay Area’s most unusual pieces of real estate can now be yours…for the price of five million dollars. The six-acre Red Rock Island, near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, is the only privately-owned island in San Francisco Bay.  It … Continue reading

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Bay Area bridges deemed

A group pushing for more infrastructure spending has listed several California cities, including San Francisco, San Jose and Stockton as having among the nation’s highest percentage of structurally deficient bridges. Transportation for America’s report, which will be released with updated … Continue reading

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