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San Francisco Bay Area home prices set to surpass pre-crash record highs

San Francisco Bay Area home prices are a few months away from not only returning to pre-crash levels, but zooming into uncharted price territory, if current market conditions continue in the immediate future.

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Is the residential real estate inventory shortgage real?

For the past few months there has been a steady stream of reports that the real estate marketplace somehow has an inventory shortage. This simply isn't possible when at

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South SF Bay Area market remains short on supply; sales mixed, prices rising

"For sellers, stick with the comparables and don"t be overzealous in pricing your property. For buyers, get yourself pre-approved for a mortgage before you start looking and be

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Holy Sacramento!

Remember when Sacramento was one of the hardest hit cities in the nation during the housing crisis? Now, with the nation's largest drop in homes for sale, Sacramento, CA

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Home price increases mask true, smaller home value increases

Today's home price increases often don't reflect true increases in home values. In fact, today's home price increases may be well off real home value increases in some metropolitan

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Reason to give thanks: Many Silicon Valley home values have returned to 2005 levels

The wait for the return to "pre-recession home prices" is over in some Silicon Valley neighborhoods. Happy Thanksgiving. However, that pre-recession price has yet to wipe out equity losses homeowners

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Most housing markets worse off than four years ago

REALTYTRAC.COM - "Election 2012 Housing Health Check" found that 65 percent of local housing markets nationwide are worse off than four years ago based on an analysis of

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Infographic: What women want from the American Dream

Women, compared to men, see home ownership as more important to the American Dream. So now, men, you KNOW what women want. A survey by TD Bank reveals that while

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Silicon Valley rolling out larger short sale bargains, inventories

Want a below-median price bargain on a home in a market where home values are rising by double digits? Consider buying a short sale or REO in Silicon Valley,

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Most Silicon Valley submarket sale prices exceeding list prices

SANTA CLARA COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS – Demand for housing in Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley) continued to rise in August, with the sale prices for both single

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Neighborhoods that fit in a pocket

Raines Cohen lives in a 685-square foot home in Berkeley, CA where residents helped resurrect a 1900s-era farm property with 15 restored properties that house 32 residents. Called the

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Infographic: Silicon Valley’s REO, short sale bargains comprise 26 percent of market

MLSLISTINGS.COM - REOs and short sales made up 26 percent of new listings in the first half of 2012 in Santa Clara County, CA - Silicon Valley. While

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What do homebuyers want?

American home buyers, emerging from the greatest recession since the Great Depression, are torn about the size of home they want. Homes.com recently reported about 75 percent of Americans

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‘American Dream Home’ growing again

Nearly three in four Americans want a single-family, detached home in a country setting with four bedrooms and three bathrooms. Two out of five want more, a super-sized

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Desperate buyers try to game the system with offers that backfire

SILICON VALLEY - As the area housing market continues to heat up with as many as 20 home buyers for each listing, buyers are becoming desperate to get

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Infographic: Zillow says ‘Facebook Effect’ effective

With speculation that Facebook and other recent IPOs could contribute to another San Francisco Bay area housing boom, Zillow looked at the effect of widespread wealth on a

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Breaking down Silicon Valley’s market movement

While the national real estate market is picking up steam, the Silicon Valley market seems to have attained a plateau - at least for the time being.

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‘Turnaround Towns’ leading housing market to recovery

Seven housing markets hit hardest by foreclosure fallout in Florida and three markets in also hard-hit California are among the top 25 markets spearheading the national housing recovery. Unexpected

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Federal discrimination suit brews over REO marketing, upkeep

(Update: NFHA, on April 10, filed discrimination charges against Wells Fargo with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.) The same kind of discrimination that saddled minorities with

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Silicon Valley home buyers: ‘Bigger ain’t necessarily better, baby’

From young, qualified first-time home buyers to 50-and-olders, moving, up, over or down, a new breed of buyer is descending upon the Silicon Valley Housing market. They've worked hard

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