Posts Tagged ‘east palo alto home prices’Cirios Trends – August 2010In this month’s Cirios Trends Special Edition: Finding Real Estate Opportunities, check out: The State of the Markets – August 4, 2010 Demographics drive property values. Feature: The Storied History of Hunters Point Abandoned Naval Shipyard poised for dramatic development. Around the Bay: Local News Bites Goings on that move markets. Zip Code Spotlight – [...] The State of the Markets – 8/4/10This post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities Humans, as a species, are lousy fortunetellers. A few intrepid visionaries aside, most people simply cannot grasp what the world will look like in 20, 10 or even five years. And for good reason. Trying to envision the [...] Feature: The Storied History of Hunters PointThis post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities Over the past several years, precious few shovels have broken ground in San Francisco. The credit crisis and economic slump have caused developers and investors to pull back, as builders have focused on surviving, rather than thriving. But [...] Zip Code Spotlight – Bay View/Hunters Point (94124)This post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities This month’s zip code spotlight falls on 94124, the Bay View/Hunters Point area of Southeast San Francisco. This area is well known as the most dangerous part of the city, but as we discuss elsewhere in this issue, [...] Around the Bay: Local News BitesThis post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities San Francisco Gives Hunters Point Redevelopment Thumbs Up (San Francisco Chronicle) In a nearly unanimous vote last week, the San Francisco supervisors approved plans to redevelop the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, pushing forward what has become one of [...] Cirios Opportunities – Adding Value: A Garage in SFThis post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities Here at Cirios, we like to believe that every house should be viewed as an investment. From purchasing your first home to acquiring rental property, buyers should always factor in the value of the home based on current [...] Talking Charts – Divergence ContinuesThis post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities The concept that current housing data is masking true market activity is slowly gaining mindshare. Of course, readers of Cirios Trends will recall that this is a concept we have been pushing for months, even if the mainstream [...] Zip Code Spotlight – East Palo Alto – 94303This post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: Finding Real Estate Opportunities. This month’s spotlight falls on East Palo Alto, CA, perhaps one of the Bay Area’s most interesting pockets of real estate and an excellent illustration of the effect of housing boom and bust on marginal areas. Surrounded by islands of [...] A Tale of Two Markets: Underneath the DataThis post first appeared in the SPECIAL EDITION: Cirios Trends: A Decade in Flux << PREVIOUS Since we just spent the last ten pages laboriously scratching the surface of complex macroeconomic trends with a few over-simplified charts, we will now analyze every single US housing market by looking at sales data in two cities. As [...] |