Posts Tagged ‘brentwood’Deal or No Deal: Walnut Creek on the CheapClick HERE for the results of this Deal or No Deal. Nestled in the heart of Ignacio Valley, Walnut Creek is the heart of the Contra Costa County economy. During the dotcom boom, tech companies of all stripes opened offices downtown, as the skyline grew and housing developments began to dot the hillsides. (click on [...] House of the Month: The Town the FHA Saved – Brentwood, CA.No, we’re not talking about the upper class neighborhood in Santa Monica. We are talking about a city 52 miles northeast of San Francisco, a farming town that epitomized the housing boom and bust. Of late, sales activity has leapt in Brentwood, almost exclusively due to the prevalence of the FHA loan program. (NOTE: in [...] House of the Week Results: Blame it on BrentwoodBrentwood, as we mentioned, was a poster child for California’s real estate boom and bust. A rural community turned boom town when homebuilders and speculators descended on its quiet shores. Ok, not shores so much as fields, but you get the idea. 552 Sassafrass is a gargantuan home, almost 5,000 square feet on a single [...] House of the Week: Blame it on BrentwoodFor this week’s House of the Week, Cirios takes you on a ride to the formerly pastoral outskirts of Contra Costa County, an hour-long jaunt east from San Francisco. Brentwood, once a quiet farming town, became a poster child for the housing market’s boom and bust. Builders threw up development after development, buyers paying more [...] Housing Perspective: August Case-Shiller Home Price IndexThe S&P/Case-Shiller home price index is out today, showing a continuation of the downtrend in property values. Data from August — two full months before the financial crisis spun out of control — shows weakness across the country: Prices fell in August for the 25th consecutive month Prices in 10 major markets plunged a record [...] |