CA Housing Fast Facts

California median home price: January 2013: $337,040 California highest median home price by region/county January 2013: Marin, $799,110 California lowest median home price by region/county January 2013: Madera, $98,330 California Pending Home Sales Index: December 2012: 82.3 , down 20.5 percent from November’s 103.5. California Traditional Housing Affordability Index: Fourth quarter 2012: 48 percent (Source: C.A.R.) Mortgage rates: Week ending 2/28/2013 30-yr. fixed: 3.51% fees/points: 0.8% 15-yr. fixed: 2.76% fees/points: […]

CA Housing Fast Facts

California median home price: December 2012: $366,930 California highest median home price by region/county December 2012: Marin, $796,880 California lowest median home price by region/county December 2012: Lake County, $127,500 California Pending Home Sales Index: December 2012: 82.3 , down 20.5 percent from November’s 103.5. California Traditional Housing Affordability Index: Third quarter 2012: 49 percent (Source: C.A.R.) Mortgage rates: Week ending 2/14/2013 30-yr. fixed: 3.53% fees/points: 0.8% 15-yr. fixed: 2.77 […]

Pending Home Sales: Now & Then

If you’ve been keeping up with the housing market lately you may have heard of a rebound in home prices and a lack of available homes for sale yet many don’t seem to beleive the real estate market is any better in 2012 than it was last year in 2011. The folks over at Keeping Current […]

Headlines in Real Estate for week ending July 27th 2012

Pending home sales fall, green homes sell for more and much more. Here are the real estate headlines you may have missed this week: Pending home sales in California decline (via Los Angeles Times) The CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported this week that contracts signed for previously owned homes in California took a dip in June. The […]

Pending Home Sales Surge, Now What?

For the seventh consecutive month, pending sales of existing homes rose sharply in August reaching it’s highest level since March 2007. The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, based on signed contracts was up 6.4% to 103.8, which makes it the longest consecutive month to month increase since the index began tracking in […]