Belmont Housing Reports

Housing Stall in 2018 Has Homebuyers on Fence

By |October 12th, 2018|

Wouldn’t it be nice if all market stalls were this pretty?

Welcome to our world, where the new question du jour is “Is there a market crash on the horizon?”, or some equally broad request eliciting a prognostication beyond our worldly abilities. We say, “define horizon?”

In 2017 there was little discussion about the Peninsula housing market […]

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Prop 13 May Die a Slow Death

By |May 4th, 2018|

Do you remember proposition 13? If you do, you probably own a home, but prop 13 may be dying a slow death, at least for industrial and commercial properties.

THE BACKSTORY: On June 6th, 1978, nearly two-thirds of California’s voters passed Proposition 13, reducing property tax rates on homes, and businesses by about 57%. Proposition 13 forever […]

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Belmont Home Price Increases Slow to a Crawl

By |August 5th, 2017|

In each of our Newsletters we bring you the recent Belmont home sales for the previous month. This time we thought we’d stack up the months of August to the same time last year, so the variance from the previous year is obvious.

The first thing that jumps out at us is that there were 33% […]

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How Much Should I Bid to Win the Home?

By |May 11th, 2017|

How Much Should I Bid to Win the Home? You’ve found the ideal home, and now it’s time to make that offer. The offer to beat the other five offers you hear the sellers may be receiving.

When trying to determine an offer price, where do you start, or stop? Of course, your agent should be armed […]

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Housing May Be Approaching Equilibrium

By |January 19th, 2017|

A lot transpires at the end of the year. There are resolutions for the new year, and reflection upon the year just passed. There’s wrapping up the holiday decorations and reflecting upon the celebratory memories.

And then there’s wrapping up the year-end business for us. Surveying what happened in our local housing market and taking a […]

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Shifting Market in Play

By |December 17th, 2016|

NOTE: Shifting Market in Play is an article we did for the Examiner in December, when asked to comment on 2016—A Year in Review: This is a link to the original article.

In order to understand our current housing market, one must appreciate that markets are constantly in flux. In our town of Belmont, we looked […]

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Local Housing Market Shows Signs of Change

By |October 26th, 2016|

BELMONT (AND BAY AREA) MARKET SHIFT

In order to know what changed in our housing market, one must understand that markets are constantly in flux, it’s just hard to see when you are in the middle of one—sort of like being in the eye of a hurricane. We looked at home sales in Belmont and compared […]

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Know What Changed our Housing Market

By |September 1st, 2016|

In order to know what changed our housing market, one must understand that markets are constantly in flux, it’s just hard to see when you are in the middle of one.

We took a look at homes in Foster City for a client recently. The premise was they wanted to know if the housing market was […]

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Are December Home Values Real?

By |January 22nd, 2016|

Are December Home Values Real? Can we trust what we hear?

Being REALTORS, we’re used to being asked “How’s the market?”, but never more than during holiday social events.

Real estate is the topic of conversation at a lot of social gatherings—we overhear conversations when we are out and about quite frequently. Usually it’s one person telling […]

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Don’t Wait—Beat the Crowds and Buy This Winter

By |November 13th, 2015|

Don’t Wait—Beat the Crowds and Buy This Winter

We’ve been saying this for years, the best time to buy a home is when it’s not the best time to sell–and the statistics back us up. But we’re not telling you anything you shouldn’t already know. However, there’s even more compelling reasons this year, with the much ballyhooed talk […]

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