by Peter Richmond | Aug 31, 2018
Well, I know we’ve been here before, but, once again, home values in the Bay Area have shown double digit increases over a year ago. While Marin this time wasn’t leading the pack, the overall effect on values Bay Area-wide is still positive. Want the...
by Peter Richmond | Aug 24, 2018
We’ve covered this in previous posts, but felt it worthwhile to repeat it now as employment figures are again going up. Improving employment always bodes well for the housing market because if more people are working, then there are more buyers out there...
by Peter Richmond | Aug 17, 2018
Well, sooner or later, as home prices keep climbing, and mortgage interest rates along with them, the number of folks who can afford to buy a home drops. As the following bit of info indicates, affordability has gone down in recent months, and may continue to do so...
by Peter Richmond | Aug 10, 2018
For quite a few years now, buyers from outside the United States have played a major role in the local housing market. Name a foreign country and the chances are that money originating there has found its way into Bay Area real estate. Much of that has been...
by Peter Richmond | Aug 3, 2018
Often, when calculating the cost of home ownership, the figure most often used is the monthly mortgage payment. Sometimes, folks will do some basic math and add on the monthly cost of real estate taxes and, in some cases, insurance. But the overall cost goes far...