Archive for December 27, 2012

Strong Jobs Report Helps Ring in the New Year

The latest employment numbers confirm that the Bay Area continues to drive California’s economic recovery, with employers increasingly calling back laid-off workers and thousands of new jobs helping to expand the economic base — and keep ou...

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Pacific Union Ranked Third in Bay Area by Sales

We’re pleased to announce that the San Francisco Business Times has ranked Pacific Union International as the Bay Area’s third-largest residential real estate firm in its annual Book of Lists, published this week. It’s the second year ...

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Supply of Homes Tight in Bay Area, But Buyers Are Eager — and Determined

Strong demand for Bay Area housing will make for a busy 2013. Much of the reporting on the 2012 housing recovery has focused on the tight supply of homes on the market, often blamed on homeowners without enough equity to move into more exp...

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Santa Rosa’s Skyhawk: Suburbia Done Right

Annadel State Park is a stone’s throw from Skyhawk. Santa Rosa’s Skyhawk community is “quintessential suburbia,” where families know their neighbors and friends grow up together. It’s a popular community, with some of the best scho...

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Pacific Union’s Home of the Week: Spacious Santa Rosa Stunner Offers Plenty of Options

  Options abound with Pacific Union's Home of the Week, at 2108 Wedgewood Way in Santa Rosa. The two-story home in the sought-after Tuscany at Fountaingrove neighborhood, on the northern edge of the city, has a spacious great room, four be...

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Real Estate Week: Fewer Foreclosure Starts Today but a Backlog of Repossessions

News this week of interest to homebuyers, home sellers, and the home-curious: Banks today are less inclined to start foreclosure proceedings, but they're picking up the pace of long-delayed repossessions. Also: The housing recovery could spell...

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Pacific Union’s Monthly Real Estate Update

Home sales remain strong in the Bay Area and Tahoe/Truckee as the end of the year draws near. Typically, sales fall off in November and December, when holiday plans crowd out thoughts of relocating households, but we’re seeing only a slight...

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A Look at Real Estate Trends in the New Year

The new year is just three weeks away, and with it come all sorts of questions and uncertainties about the housing market in 2013. Will the recent recovery take hold, or will the U.S. economy fall off a fiscal cliff? When will home prices re...

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Real Estate Week: Home Flipping OK, Evictions Off for the Holidays, and Short Sales Surge

News this week of interest to homebuyers, home sellers, and the home-curious: The FHA signs off on home flipping, and homeowners facing eviction get a holiday reprieve. Meanwhile, short sales, facing a deadline, jump dramatically, while confo...

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Mortgage-Interest Deduction May Be Scaled Back Amid ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Negotiations

Limits on the mortgage-interest tax deduction are looking more likely after President Barack Obama said this week that tax breaks benefiting middle-class families could be at risk if taxes for the wealthiest Americans are not increased...

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