http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/23331 Our latest home sales map is ready for a peek. No need to grab a map and figure out where to find Kings Canyon or Queensbury drives.&nbsp; (Homes on both royalty-themed streets recently sold.) We&rsquo;ve done the work for you in this map. This map is updated with homes that sold in Bakersfield Jan. 28 to Jan. 231, 2008, but includes earlier weeks of the month too, color-coded by sales price. You can easily check out what homes are going for with the information from First American Real Estate Solutions compiled by reporter Vanessa Gregory. Highlights from the week: 13 homes were sold. Priciest? One sold for $590,000 in the 93314 ZIP code. Cheapest? One sold for $135,000 in the 93305 ZIP code. &mdash; Christine Peterson Our latest home sales map is ready for a peek. No need to grab a map and figure out where to find Kings Canyon or Queensbury drives.&nbsp; (Homes on both royalty-themed streets recently sold.) We&rsquo;ve done the work for you in this map. This map is updated with homes that sold in Bakersfield Jan. 28 to Jan. 231, 2008, but includes earlier weeks of the month too, color-coded by sales price. You can easily check out what homes are going for with the information from First American Real Estate Solutions compiled by reporter Vanessa Gregory. Highlights from the week: 13 homes were sold. Priciest? One sold for $590,000 in the 93314 ZIP code. Cheapest? One sold for $135,000 in the 93305 ZIP code. &mdash; Christine Peterson en-us <p> Thanks for sharing this map Money Talks!  I am just returning to the area and this is a great tool.</p> <br /> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/23331/#c_213499 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/23331/#c_213499 <p> Thanks for sharing this map Money Talks!  I am just returning to the area and this is a great tool.</p> <br /> <p>You're very welcome!</p> <p>I'm actually starting on the February map now, as we have a few sales from Feb. 1 to share. We'll update weekly, and whenever we have data for the next month, start a new map. </p> <p>So for now we have one for December 2007 and one for January 2008. February is coming soon!</p> <p><i>&mdash; Christine Peterson</i></p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/23331/#c_213502 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/23331/#c_213502 <p>You're very welcome!</p> <p>I'm actually starting on the February map now, as we have a few sales from Feb. 1 to share. We'll update weekly, and whenever we have data for the next month, start a new map. </p> <p>So for now we have one for December 2007 and one for January 2008. February is coming soon!</p> <p><i>&mdash; Christine Peterson</i></p> <p>&nbsp;<span class="news_story_title">California Leads U.S. in Defaults, Home-Price Decline (Update1) </span><br /> &nbsp;</p> <p>By Daniel Taub and Dan Levy</p> <div style="float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px"> <div id="newsphoto"><img height="162" alt="" src="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&amp;iid=iixkwWpGuwYc" width="220" border="0" /></div> <div id="photolink"><a onclick="window.open('/apps/news?pid=photos&amp;sid=a_IN0W3.lFV0','BloombergPhoto','width=490,height=445,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,titlebar=no');return false;" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=photos&amp;sid=a_IN0W3.lFV0" target="_blank"><img class="photoenlarge" height="10" alt="Enlarge Image/Details" src="http://images.bloomberg.com/r06/news/enlarge_details.gif" width="95" border="0" /></a></div> </div> <p>March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Sacramento may eliminate up to 600 jobs in the city's first staff reductions in half a century, and the police and fire departments in the California capital may have their budgets cut by 20 percent. The culprit is the collapse of the <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=STEHCA%3AIND" t_delay="50" t_width="110" t_bgcolor="#ddedd9" t_fontface="Verdana,sans-serif" t_fontcolor="#000000" t_static="true" t_above="true">U.S. housing market</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=HSPRPACF%3AIND" t_delay="50" t_width="110" t_bgcolor="#ddedd9" t_fontface="Verdana,sans-serif" t_fontcolor="#000000" t_static="true" t_above="true">California</a>, the birthplace of the subprime mortgage industry, is paying the highest price of any state as the housing meltdown persists. Its gross domestic product will drop 1.5 percent in the first half of 2008, the most in the U.S., analysts at Lexington, Massachusetts-based Global Insight Inc. estimate.</p> <p>The state had the most foreclosure filings in the U.S. last year and the biggest fourth-quarter <a href="http://www.ofheo.gov/media/pdf/4q07hpi.pdf" target="_blank" t_delay="50" t_width="120" t_bgcolor="#ddedd9" t_fontface="Verdana,sans-serif" t_fontcolor="#000000" t_static="true" t_above="true">decline in prices</a>, according to RealtyTrac Inc., an Irvine, California-based seller of data on defaults, and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight in Washington.</p> <p>``The depth and magnitude of what's happening in the real estate market is really, really grim,'' said <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Russell+Fehr&amp;site=wnews&amp;client=wnews&amp;proxystylesheet=wnews&amp;output=xml_no_dtd&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;filter=p&amp;getfields=wnnis&amp;sort=date:D:S:d1" t_delay="50" t_width="110" t_bgcolor="#ddedd9" t_fontface="Verdana,sans-serif" t_fontcolor="#000000" t_static="true" t_above="true">Russell Fehr</a>, Sacramento's finance director, in an interview.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=a_IN0W3.lFV0&amp;refer=exclusive">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=a_IN0W3.lFV0&amp;refer=exclusive</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/23331/#c_215311 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/23331/#c_215311 <p>&nbsp;<span class="news_story_title">California Leads U.S. in Defaults, Home-Price Decline (Update1) </span><br /> &nbsp;</p> <p>By Daniel Taub and Dan Levy</p> <div style="float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px"> <div id="newsphoto"><img height="162" alt="" src="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&amp;iid=iixkwWpGuwYc" width="220" border="0" /></div> <div id="photolink"><a onclick="window.open('/apps/news?pid=photos&amp;sid=a_IN0W3.lFV0','BloombergPhoto','width=490,height=445,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,titlebar=no');return false;" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=photos&amp;sid=a_IN0W3.lFV0" target="_blank"><img class="photoenlarge" height="10" alt="Enlarge Image/Details" src="http://images.bloomberg.com/r06/news/enlarge_details.gif" width="95" border="0" /></a></div> </div> <p>March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Sacramento may eliminate up to 600 jobs in the city's first staff reductions in half a century, and the police and fire departments in the California capital may have their budgets cut by 20 percent. The culprit is the collapse of the <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=STEHCA%3AIND" t_delay="50" t_width="110" t_bgcolor="#ddedd9" t_fontface="Verdana,sans-serif" t_fontcolor="#000000" t_static="true" t_above="true">U.S. housing market</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=HSPRPACF%3AIND" t_delay="50" t_width="110" t_bgcolor="#ddedd9" t_fontface="Verdana,sans-serif" t_fontcolor="#000000" t_static="true" t_above="true">California</a>, the birthplace of the subprime mortgage industry, is paying the highest price of any state as the housing meltdown persists. Its gross domestic product will drop 1.5 percent in the first half of 2008, the most in the U.S., analysts at Lexington, Massachusetts-based Global Insight Inc. estimate.</p> <p>The state had the most foreclosure filings in the U.S. last year and the biggest fourth-quarter <a href="http://www.ofheo.gov/media/pdf/4q07hpi.pdf" target="_blank" t_delay="50" t_width="120" t_bgcolor="#ddedd9" t_fontface="Verdana,sans-serif" t_fontcolor="#000000" t_static="true" t_above="true">decline in prices</a>, according to RealtyTrac Inc., an Irvine, California-based seller of data on defaults, and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight in Washington.</p> <p>``The depth and magnitude of what's happening in the real estate market is really, really grim,'' said <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Russell+Fehr&amp;site=wnews&amp;client=wnews&amp;proxystylesheet=wnews&amp;output=xml_no_dtd&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;filter=p&amp;getfields=wnnis&amp;sort=date:D:S:d1" t_delay="50" t_width="110" t_bgcolor="#ddedd9" t_fontface="Verdana,sans-serif" t_fontcolor="#000000" t_static="true" t_above="true">Russell Fehr</a>, Sacramento's finance director, in an interview.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=a_IN0W3.lFV0&amp;refer=exclusive">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=a_IN0W3.lFV0&amp;refer=exclusive</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>