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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

The housing recovery is here to stay, according to a survey of some 330,000 ActiveRain members who say 2013 will prove them right. The surveyed real estate agents said: •

Your dog's a pig, your lawn is scrub land, your driveway looks like a campground and your garage band sounds like someone is banging on all that junk

DATAQUICK - An estimated 28,719 new and resale houses and condos sold statewide last month. That was down 0.5 percent from 28,871 in January, and down 3.1 percent

"The last time the number of homes sold exceeded the historical average for a given month was back in 2006." DATAQUICK - San Francisco Bay Area home sales eased

Only 27.5 percent of mortgage homeowners suffered negative equity in the fourth quarter 2012, compared to 31.1 percent a year earlier. Zillow's Negative Equity Report says nearly 2 million

Demand for homes in Silicon Valley's low-inventory housing market, along with easier credit is generating extreme dot-com-boom-like bidding wars. Santa Clara County (Silicon Valley), home to 1.8 million people,

There's a strong correlation between high home prices and towns that produce Super Bowl teams. RealEstate.com says among the 10 National Football League (NFL) teams that have appeared in

There's growing caution in the optimism about the real estate recovery and rising home prices. A second report reveals home prices aren't what they appear to be. Global ratings

Q: "Hi Robert. My parents would like to transfer ownership of their home to either me or one of my siblings. They've asked me to look into this.

John Burns of John Burns Real Estate Consulting recently based a rosy 2013 forecast for home buyers on the premise that Capital Hill's residents will come to an

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

Bruce Norris, of the Norris Group in Riverside CA is known for having his finger on the pulse of California's housing market. He says home values will rise in

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

Quality construction, neighborhood safety and floor plans they can live with are the three most important features buyers want in a newly built home, according to Builder Homesite’s

U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT - After a sharp first quarter rise, total equity has grown to $863 billion, or 13.5 percent, since the end of 2011 and the number

A comparative market analysis (CMA) is necessary research to determine your home's list price when it's time to put it on the market for sale. The CMA is an

Wayne Manor is a sprawling 42,500-square-foot mansion on 150 acres of land sitting atop an über man cave, so the Dark Knight isn't likely to put the property

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