6. Coos Bay, OR Median home price: $279,050 Shore Acres State Park, Coos Bay, OR Andrei Stanescu / iStock A good friend works at Bandon Dunes and I've been there a couple of times. It takes all day to get there - fly to SFO then take a 30-seater planer to Bend and...
For most of the long-time homeowners in San Diego County, it was fortuitous to have purchased a home here 10, 20, 30 years ago or more and have racked up huge gains in equity while living in paradise. For those who are tempted to cash in their home-equity lottery...
Would you move this year if you could figure out where to go? The chart above helps identify the best values by cross-referencing income and costs. To no one's surprise, living in San Diego comes with a hefty premium! If getting more bang for your buck is important,...
The headline for this article is California Loses Hundreds of Thousands of Residents in 2020: But it sounded...
We've had sellers move to five of these towns this year! Housing markets are showing resilience against the pandemic, but some are thriving more than others and are expected to continue to perform strongly in the years ahead. Coinciding with the National Association...
Brett Farrow is a local architect, builder, and developer - and has been a long-time reader of the blog (you've seen him comment here as 'Mozart'). Yesterday, we got together at his latest project, Laguna Row, and talked about his experiences in the village of...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The average length of homeownership has been 10-12 years.....until now?!? Nearly half of Americans are considering a move to a new home Of those considering a move, more than 1 in 4 (27%) want to stay within their current...
Ryan was nice enough to provide the latest data (2019) from the U.S. Census Bureau on where Californians are moving, and where our new residents are coming from - at least before the pandemic. The big winners on a net basis: More Californians moved there: Texas: ...
Anyone surprised to hear there are agents soliciting consumers based on their political beliefs? At first, Stephanie Morris was nervous about leaving Modesto. She’d lived in the Central Valley her whole life, but her family couldn’t keep paying $850-a-month for her...
The more-affluent folks moving to California don't U-haul. Record numbers of residents have been leaving California in recent years, but in 2020 the growth of remote work, the lure of cheaper housing and a summer of unprecedented wildfires has accelerated the trend....
