Post Tagged with: "affordable housing"
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Bay Area housing: Active listings sank in November as prices shot up again
Bay Area home prices raced upward again in November, climbing 12.5 percent beyond their levels of a year earlier.
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It’s magic: As the housing supply plunges in Silicon Valley, sales somehow inch up
The housing supply is shrinking in Silicon Valley: In Santa Clara County, the number of active listings plunged 59 percent between November 2016 and November 2017. Yet sales for the first 11 months of 2017 are running slightly ahead of the same period in 2016.
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What it takes to buy a house in San Jose: more on that $216,000 annual income and the Bay Area affordability crisis
The household income of $216,181 needed to buy a median-priced home in the San Jose area is more than twice the $99,151 needed to buy in New York City.
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$216,181: That’s the household income needed to buy a house in San Jose, report says
The housing affordability crisis is escalating nationally, according to a new report. But the runaway markets are the San Jose and San Francisco areas.
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Bay Area home sales actually increase in some counties even though supply keeps shrinking
In October, all nine Bay Area counties saw double-digit declines in the number of active listings compared with a year earlier, according to a report from the California Association of Realtors. Yet sales increased statewide and in several of the region’s counties, as buyers burned through the meager number of listed properties.
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Sorry: No Black Friday discounts for Bay Area homebuyers
Among the 100 largest U.S. housing markets, San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland – in that order – are the least likely places to find a price cut on a home for sale.
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How to sign up for ‘On the Table,’ the Bay Area-wide, grassroots conversation about housing
The “On the Table” community-wide conversation about the Bay Area housing crisis starts Wednesday and runs through Nov. 22.
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It’s not just the Bay Area: sales sag and prices climb across the U.S.
Year-over-year housing prices jumped 11.7 percent in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro, 7.2 percent in the Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley metro and 6.4 percent in the San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco metro.
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Brainstorming the Bay Area housing crisis
On Nov. 15, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation is hosting “On the Table,” a community-wide conversation about housing and transportation.
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East Bay housing: the supply keeps shrinking — and prices rise yet again
Looking at more than 30 East Bay communities, a new survey finds that residential real estate there is largely following a Bay Area, statewide and national trend: The housing supply is shrinking and consumer demand is pushing prices up.
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