Category: New Home Builders

Asking around about Piedmont, California, just across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco and right next door to Oakland, one might say it resembles more of a close-knit village than “the City of Millionaires,” which is its historic moniker. Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, tennis star Brad Gilbert, and Little House on the Prairie’s Dean Butler were raised among the area’s lavish… Read More

HERCULES — On the surface, Victoria by the Bay is a charming neighborhood of 926 homes only a short walk from the shores of San Pablo Bay. But the ground beneath the roughly 200-acre development was once home to the former Pacific Refinery Co., a facility built in 1966 that produced 55,000 barrels of oil daily and stored other hazardous… Read More

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WASHINGTON (TND) — The dream of homeownership remains increasingly difficult for most Americans to achieve due to rising costs. Renting may be the best option for those looking for a house to call their own. A new study from Bankrate found renting is 37% cheaper than buying a typical home in all 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. As… Read More

Cal Fire Division Chief Rich Sampson walks through an area of Pescadero Creek County Park near La Honda, Calif., Thursday, April 25, 2024, still showing the scars of the 2020 CZU Fire. The area along Old Haul Road Trail is scheduled for a fire protection thinning project this summer. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) It’s been nearly four years since… Read More

Real Estate advisor Teresa Baum sets out signage before an open house event on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Oakland, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) Homebuyers could be forgiven for thinking it was 2022. As of March, the median sales price of a home in the nine-county Bay Area was $1.39 million, according to new data from the California… Read More

Not surprisingly, California cities rank high in a new list of places where it is cheaper to rent vs. to own a starter home. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. ranked number six on the list behind San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, Calif. (4) and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, Calif. (5), according to the Realtor.com study. Austin-Round Rock, TX took the top spot. In the South… Read More

Not surprisingly, California cities rank high in a new list of places where it is cheaper to rent vs. to own a starter home. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. ranked number six on the list behind San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, Calif. (4) and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, Calif. (5), according to the Realtor.com study. Austin-Round Rock, TX took the top spot. In the South… Read More

Houses for sale are getting harder to come by in the Bay Area’s biggest county. New numbers show the amount of homes with sale pending in Santa Clara County outnumber the homes that are on the market. The low inventory means prices will remain high for the foreseeable future. MLS, which tracks homes for sale, shows that 621 homes are… Read More