Monthly Archives: September 2021

These cities have the Bay Area’s hottest ZIP codes for prospective home buyers

The analysis looked specifically at two metropolitan areas: the San Francisco area, defined as Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties, and the San Jose area, defined as Santa Clara and San Benito counties. Here’s what the … Continue reading

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Newsom backs denser zoning for single-family neighborhoods

The changes could ultimately help add hundreds of thousands of housing units across the state — though that is still far short of the more than a million new homes that experts estimate California will need in coming years to … Continue reading

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Gap’s Fisher family estate in Atherton listed for $100 million

The residence at 170 Atherton Ave. includes two homes and a sculpture garden in the most expensive ZIP code in the country — 94027. “This listing is the largest real estate offering since 2011 when a 12-acre property on Atherton … Continue reading

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House Hunting: Is This Price Right?

The strategy is to create something of a blind auction where buyers try to puzzle out a number that the sellers’ will actually accept and a number that’s higher than all the other offers. It’s a local quirk that everyone … Continue reading

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Supply of homes for sale rises in SF, Bay Area – but how are prices holding up?

The biggest decline in the nine-county region was in Marin County, where the median sold price fell 10.9% to $1,560,000 from July to August, according to the Realtors group. In San Mateo County, prices fell 8.8% to a median $1,925,000, … Continue reading

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