Silicon Valley Real Estate Investor

Qing Li provides an excellent overview of the local housing market on his blog Lively Estate.

As someone who appreciates, well-presented data, I especially liked the following graph he provided (click the graph for full size). For example, a snapshot of the inventory in Santa Clara County this Jan 2010 reveals that the total housing inventory has fallen by about two thirds since the same time last year.

A smattering of local recent real estate news …
San Francisco Metro Area posts leading monthly gain in latest Case-Schiller report
via SJ Mercury News
Home prices rose for the sixth straight month in November, with 14 of 20 metro areas posting improvements from the month before.
The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index released Tuesday inched up 0.2 [...]

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