Dataquick Map: 2011 Bay Area cities median home sale price growth rate (Montclair: sales, vacation home)

[18Montclair]

Lots of red, some bright spots tho.

Sorry, this is for the 4th quarter of 2011, not the entire year.

mod cut - see link for map - copyright
Home Prices Pop in Hot Silicon Valley Turf but Fall Elsewhere - WSJ.com

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Sort of strange the HMB comes up green. Maybe it went really low earlier. In general prices there are much lower than 3 - 4 years ago. Meanwhile closer in parts of the Peninsula have essentially been flat since the crash, but seem to be edging upward now.

[Bulldogdad]

If ever there were a time to buy a vacation home on the Northern California coast.

[madhaus at burbed]

This map confirms the Moderator cut: advertising/promotion of another site not permitted ! Yesssssss!

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by madhaus at burbed

This map confirms the Real Bay Area! Yesssssss!

I think Id die of boredom in this link's definition of 'the real bay area'
mod cut - copyright violation - orphaned

Notice how they cut off Marin? I wonder if its cause they know Marin is wealthy, posh and is very desirable and all totally unrelated to Silicon Valley?

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

I think Id die of boredom in this link's definition of 'the real bay area'


Notice how they cut off Marin? I wonder if its cause they know Marin is wealthy, posh and is very desirable and all totally unrelated to Silicon Valley?

1%ers.

[madhaus at burbed]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

I think Id die of boredom in this link's definition of 'the real bay area'


Notice how they cut off Marin? I wonder if its cause they know Marin is wealthy, posh and is very desirable and all totally unrelated to Silicon Valley?

They? I, personally, made that map myself! And the reason I cut off Marin is I didn't have room to show it with the tool I was using.

If you spend any time reading Moderator cut: advertising/promotion of another site not permitted, you would notice the focus on the blog is primarily Silicon Valley, and that's what the readership expects. But I'm happy to run disasters from Marin as well, especially as the excellent blog Marin POS stopped updating more than 3 years ago.

I'd say what Marin is known for, as far as bad, overpriced housing goes, is a lot of very poorly maintained homes on wonderful pieces of land. That's different from Silicon Valley, where we have tons of identical tract houses with zero character that sell for almost as much as the idiosyncratic crap in Marin. I tell you, each place has their own flavor of bad as well as good.

[peninsular]

Maybe I'm missing something, but the median sales price is not that great of an indicator of the home price dynamic in any given area, is it? We are not talking same properties being re-sold at different prices, right? If the MSP goes up, it just means that more expensive properties are being sold and does not necessarily mean that the value of other homes goes up the same amount or even at all.

[Bayarea4]

The map and the WSJ article are both more than a year out of date.

[funtimessf]

Originally Posted by Bayarea4

The map and the WSJ article are both more than a year out of date.

I believe that's the point, to show where the recovery started.