Foreclosure News – from Santa Cruz and Beyond

And it is also better than getting woken up by the morning news, especially in these dark days. You may have heard this one on…

February 2008 Santa Cruz Real Estate Sales

That's good news, but if you think about it, you'd realize it couldn't actually get much worse, and even with this improvement, we're really just…

Median Home Price Drops to $702,500

Wow, did you feel that? The big thud, as home prices just dropped through the floor? It was front page news in today's Santa Cruz…

Gloomy News: Sales down, Foreclosures Up

From reading the headlines, it seems there's some bad news on the national real estate scene. Here's a sampling of a couple of headlines from…

Market Statistics – May 2007

Subscribers of my Real Estate Newsletter have received another copy, with the latest market trends. For those of you who don't subscribe, here's what is…

Is it safe to buy a house in Santa Cruz yet?

For example, our good, reliable, always-faithful friends at the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) report: C.A.R. reports sales decrease 28.5 percent, median home price falls…

Median Santa Cruz home price drops to $599,000

A third of the January 2008 sales were for homes less than $500,000, more than double from previous months, and the subset of sales over…

Santa Cruz Market Update, August 2007

Another edition of my Santa Cruz County Real Estate Report is out, with sales data for August of this year. On the surface, the numbers…

Mid-Year State of the Market

I'd like to start out by saying - another edition of my Santa Cruz Real Estate Report is out! For those of you who haven't…

Sales Plunge 30% in July

Did that headline get your attention? It sure got mine! Just a few days ago, I was telling some colleagues: "It's not that bad -…