Lafayette and the broader Lamorinda area may still be a bargain on a relative basis, compared to other parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. A recent article published on 24/7 Wall Street, showed that two Bay Area cities are… Read More ›
Lamorinda Housing Market 
The Lafayette, CA Real Estate and Broader Lamorinda Housing “Recovery”
Not that we need external validation that the “housing recovery” is alive and well in our world of Lafayette,CA real estate, and the broader Lamorinda real estate market — but, even the national “experts” seem to be lining up in… Read More ›
Lamorinda Real Estate Market Forecast For 2012
I’m quietly stirring my healthful cup of green tea this morning as I carefully read the tea leaves and try to carefully craft my predictions for 2012 Lamorinda real estate. Let’s begin with the broader economy and work our way… Read More ›
How’s Lamorinda Real Estate Doing vs. the “National Market”?
A flurry of media attention is once again turning to the performance of the “national real estate market” as third quarter performance shows less than encouraging results. According to a Wall Street Journal article, US home prices dropped 4.7% for… Read More ›
Six Reasons Why the New HARP Refi Plan Will Be Good for Lamorinda Real Estate
Since all markets are governed fundamentally by supply and demand, keeping unnecessary supply off the market is a favorable outcome when it can be accomplished. This is exactly what the administration’s new HARP Refi Plan will accomplish in the Lamorinda… Read More ›
It May Be About the Inventory in the Lamorinda Real Estate Market.
A recent Wall Street Journal article raised several questions about supply and demand in the housing market, and it struck a resonate chord with what we are seeing in the world of Lamorinda real estate. The Journal article raised the… Read More ›
A Look at the Lamorinda Real Estate Market YTD 2011 and What Lies Ahead
Let’s look at our local market as we work our way into the last quarter of the year and near the end of October. Inventories have decreased significantly from this time last year… running about 25%+ below where they were… Read More ›
Refinancing in Lamorinda? Some Tips to Think About…
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal is providing the stimulus for today’s post, as well as some very recent and highly mixed interactions I’ve had with appraisers in the Lamorinda real estate market. With so many people refinancing their… Read More ›
Fall in Lamorinda Real Estate… Travels Abroad
For those wondering if I fell off the globe for a few weeks, the answer is, “sort of”. There never is an ideal time to take time off in this business, so early this year we planned an adventure to… Read More ›
Lamorinda’s July Defies National Markets
I couldn’t resist the sensationalized headline to this post, especially since traditional media sources have been relying upon these types of headlines to broadcast how anemic the “national” real estate market has been. If you are a regular reader of… Read More ›
