Santa Cruz home sales rising, prices falling

As has been the case for several months, there is a bit of good news - the sales volume (number of houses, condos, etc., which…

Santa Cruz Real Estate in 2009

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a safe and sane New Year's Eve, and I hope that as I type this on January 2nd,…

Santa Cruz Median Home Price: $475,000 in Sept. ’08

Still, though - if you have a house in Santa Cruz, you're looking at it being worth about $58,725 less than it was this time…

How to Find Santa Cruz Open Houses

The first thing I do is go and look at the listing itself - there is a place on the MLS entry for a property…

California Median Price down 29% in March, down 20.9% in Santa Cruz

But check out this news from C.A.R., the California Association of Realtors: [From the California Association of Realtors - median home price fell 29 percent…

Last Market Stats from 2008

In December 2008, the median price crashed down to $452,500 - that is a year-over-year drop of a bit more than 38%. When you look…

Santa Cruz Home Sales – October, 2008

OK, this data is about a week old, but I bet you haven't seen too much of it, so here it goes. For starters, we…

Santa Cruz August Median Home Price – $585,000

In the latest edition of my newsletter (if you don't already get it, I invite you to subscribe to my Santa Cruz Market Trends newsletter…

Santa Cruz Real Estate Sales Data – April 2008

For those of you who are really interested in knowing what's going on with real estate sales in Santa Cruz county, I want to remind…

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…