So here we all are - bouncing along the housing market bottom. While this bottom bouncing doesn’t feel great, trends indicate that the worst is behind us here in the Bay Area.  So does that mean it’s the time to buy? Once the foreclosure mess really begins to clear up, say housing economists, the traditional drivers of the housing...
Realtors: California Home Sales Rise in January Good news! Â Sales of New Homes in U.S. Rise More Than Forecast From Burlingame Patch:Â Sustainability Plan Connects Housing and Transit. Â At SummerHill we're committed to sustainability, did you know that our newest community will be all solar? Â That's right, every home at The Enclave at W...
Builder Online shares the 10 Green Building Trends for 2011.  Sharing and comparing energy usage is one, will you share your energy usage on Facebook? SFGate reports that Redevelopment plans threatened by CA budget cuts Brown's forecast for California: A long slog to full recovery  Read more.  Do you agree? (more…)......
The LA Times reports: Â When will housing come back in California? Five experts offer their views. Foreclosures in the state are still high. Sales of new homes are at historic lows. And millions of homeowners are underwater on their mortgages. So what's the outlook for 2011 and beyond? -Â Well if this story is any indicator, the outlook ahead is still to b...
Housing prices may be the best they have been in five years - and perhaps in our lifetime. California houses prices are up substantially as a whole and - as of August - the San Francisco Bay Area is about 33% off the March 2009 bottom. Even so, the idea that a house offers ever-increasing value is a myth. Housing prices can go up and down like any other price. Regar...
CNN reports: Â A housing rebound? Yes, it's possible. On Yahoo! Â Finance, Summary Box: Mortgage rates rise to 4.37 pct (and still at lowest rates historically!) Although SummerHill experienced sales at all of our communities this summer, SJ Business Journal reports:Â Bay Area home sales hit low in August - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journ...
California has already received an estimated 15,010 applications and reservations for the  2010 California New Home Tax Credit!  With 70% of the estimated total requested credit already reaching over $97 million, the credit will soon be history. The good news is that they've only issued certificates and reservations for  just over $3.5 m...
Did you know that SummerHill's very own Redwood Gate is located in Palo Alto? CNN Money.com Top Earning Towns article reports: Median Family Income (Per Year): $153, 615 Palo Alto is awash in high tech prosperity. Stanford professors, Facebook engineers, and venture capitalist are all neighbors in the Silicon Valley Town. Natural beauty is anoth...
California has already received an estimated 7,750 applications and reservations for the  California New Home Tax Credit!  They're estimating that 70% of the estimated total requested credit is already reaching over $50 million.  Unfortunately, they haven't finished updating their computer system, so these are all estimates for now.  Time i...
As a marketer with limited time, I want to be able to click of a button push all of our listings out to Trulia, Zillow, Google Base, and more. New Home Feed launched about a month ago and I've been testing it in Beta. Â It sure is making it easier for me to update listings to all these sites, so that we're sure that interested homebuyers are getting up to dat...