http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/28962 Our latest home sales map is ready for a peek. Check it out here. The map is updated with homes that sold in Bakersfield May 4 to 11, color-coded by sales price. We regularly publish single-family home sale transactions that occurred between individuals. Since foreclosures, or bank-owned properties, now account for an increasing number of weekly sales, sales between banks and individuals are now being included. Check out what homes are going for with the information from First American Real Estate Solutions compiled by reporter Vanessa Gregory. Highlights for May 4 to 11: &bull; 76 homes are new on the map. &bull; Priciest? One sold for $650,000 in the 93312 ZIP code. (It was 4,273 square feet.) &bull; Cheapest? One sold for $68,000 in the 93305 ZIP code. (It was 867 square feet.) What do you think of the prices and the current market? &mdash; Christine Peterson Our latest home sales map is ready for a peek. Check it out here. The map is updated with homes that sold in Bakersfield May 4 to 11, color-coded by sales price. We regularly publish single-family home sale transactions that occurred between individuals. Since foreclosures, or bank-owned properties, now account for an increasing number of weekly sales, sales between banks and individuals are now being included. Check out what homes are going for with the information from First American Real Estate Solutions compiled by reporter Vanessa Gregory. Highlights for May 4 to 11: &bull; 76 homes are new on the map. &bull; Priciest? One sold for $650,000 in the 93312 ZIP code. (It was 4,273 square feet.) &bull; Cheapest? One sold for $68,000 in the 93305 ZIP code. (It was 867 square feet.) What do you think of the prices and the current market? &mdash; Christine Peterson en-us <p>These maps seem to conveniently leave OFF high end properties.  A friend of ours sold and closed on their 5365 square foot golf course house in Seven Oaks Grand Island Showcase for $1,925,000 over a month or two ago - another (tacky) one about the same size in Showcase (in a very bad location right next to the Pavilion/Grill/Pool) just sold for approx. $1,700,000.  </p> <p>Home values in this area are down to about $350 a square foot now.  That's actually a very good deal considering the cost of the lots ($400-500K) and cost to build custom homes to the very high standard Castle & Cooke requires for homes in Showcase (where required landscaping costs $100,000, not to mention the 360 degree high end stone finishes, copper roofs etc. they demand).</p> <p>If one had the money, this is a very good time to buy - especially for higher end homes!  Even if values only creep back up slowly at 5-10% a year, that's $75,000 -$150,000 a year profit on a $1.5 million dollar home!</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/28962/#c_263345 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/28962/#c_263345 <p>These maps seem to conveniently leave OFF high end properties.  A friend of ours sold and closed on their 5365 square foot golf course house in Seven Oaks Grand Island Showcase for $1,925,000 over a month or two ago - another (tacky) one about the same size in Showcase (in a very bad location right next to the Pavilion/Grill/Pool) just sold for approx. $1,700,000.  </p> <p>Home values in this area are down to about $350 a square foot now.  That's actually a very good deal considering the cost of the lots ($400-500K) and cost to build custom homes to the very high standard Castle & Cooke requires for homes in Showcase (where required landscaping costs $100,000, not to mention the 360 degree high end stone finishes, copper roofs etc. they demand).</p> <p>If one had the money, this is a very good time to buy - especially for higher end homes!  Even if values only creep back up slowly at 5-10% a year, that's $75,000 -$150,000 a year profit on a $1.5 million dollar home!</p> <p>None in Oildale proper, none in Alta Vista, none in College heights... hurtin time in Btown...gonna get worse and worse,</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/28962/#c_263915 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/28962/#c_263915 <p>None in Oildale proper, none in Alta Vista, none in College heights... hurtin time in Btown...gonna get worse and worse,</p> <p>I've known for a long time that the figures reported by First American aren't complete.&nbsp; I'm seen a lot of houses sell and watched the report only to have them never appear on the list.</p> <p>It's very misleading.</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/28962/#c_263920 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/28962/#c_263920 <p>I've known for a long time that the figures reported by First American aren't complete.&nbsp; I'm seen a lot of houses sell and watched the report only to have them never appear on the list.</p> <p>It's very misleading.</p> <p>That was in the 1950`s&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/28962/#c_263947 http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/28962/#c_263947 <p>That was in the 1950`s&nbsp;</p>