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Bakersfield's May median home price of $210,000 matches the median back in October 2004, according to a preliminary monthly report by residential appraiser Gary Crabtree.
The figure represents a 24 percent decline from the same month last year — the highest in Bakersfield history, Crabtree...
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Bakersfield appraiser Gary Crabtree released a report with some housing market statistics for the first quarter of 2008, broken down by ZIP code. (Click on the blue icon to see the PDF report.)
The house price statistics are given by mean, rather than median, so that's not ideal.
But this is...
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Bakersfield appraiser Gary Crabtree released his preliminary housing market report last Thursday. Sorry it's late, folks; I was off Friday.
The quick summary:
-Bakersfield home sales were up 9.6 percent in March compared with the same month in 2007, Crabtree writes.
-The median sales price was...
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Everyone's on this story ...
The Today Show had a segment this morning on foreclosures and possible deals at real estate auctions.
Check out some of the coverage here.
(They also have some videos.)
They all have a useful list of warnings on the 10 mistakes home sellers make.
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Our latest home sales map is ready for a peek.
No need to grab a map and figure out where to find Barbara and Sally avenues. (Homes on those streets recently sold.) We’ve done the work for you.
See the map here.
This map is updated with existing homes that sold in Bakersfield Feb. 11...
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This morning's chart fun (click on the blue thing) is another trend analysis from residential appraiser and statistics devotee Gary Crabtree.
Current price per square foot in a Bakersfield single family home is hovering around $140, according to Crabtree.
At one point, it was up at more than...
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Our latest home sales map is ready for a peek.
No need to grab a map and figure out where to find Lorelei Rock Drive or Pheasant Avenue. (Homes on those streets recently sold.)
We’ve done the work for you in this map.
The map is updated with homes that sold in Bakersfield Feb. 1 to Feb....
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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. (Homes on both royalty-themed streets recently sold.)
We’ve done the work for you in this map.
This map is updated with homes that sold in...
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Our latest home sales map is ready to roll.
No need to grab a map and figure out where to find Madonna Avenue and Mark Twain Avenue. (Yes, they truly do exist in Bakersfield and houses on those streets just sold.)
We've done the work for you in this map.
This map is updated with homes that...
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The Bakersfield metropolitan market, which includes ZIP codes 93301 through 93314, had 1,946 single-family home foreclosures in 2007.
That's according to a report put together by the Kern County Recorder's office using data from First American Real Quest that reporter Gretchen Wenner got her...
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Wondering what homes are selling for? Look no further.
Check out our latest home sales map. It has the newest data on homes sold in Bakersfield from Jan. 13 to Jan. 20, 2008, with info from First American Real Estate Solutions. Plus it has the first two weeks of January.
Here's a summary of...
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Our weekly home sales map is up!
No need to grab a map to figure out where streets such as Foxglove Court and Millay Way might be. We've done the work for you.
Check out our map updated with Jan. 7 to Jan. 13 sales. It also includes info for the first week of January. All data is from First...
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Jon Hess, the determined would-be homeowner who camped out last Friday to take advantage of major markdowns offered in two Bakersfield communities, got his prize.
"We did indeed get a home," Hess said in a voicemail message Wednesday. "We've got one under contract."
Kym...
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Check out our latest home sales map.
We have what sold in Bakersfield the first week of January, as compiled by reporter Vanessa Gregory. Information comes from First American Real Estate Solutions.
Some interesting notes for Jan. 1 to Jan. 7:
• 18 homes were sold.
• 5 sold for less...
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Deeply discounted new homes go on sale Saturday in two northeast Bakersfield communities, an event that has inspired stakeout tactics in some would-be homeowners and a measure of concern among those who paid full price to live in the neighborhoods.
D.R. Horton Inc., a national homebuilder based...
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Yesterday we got a map going of home sales by week.
Now we've got it color-coded by sales price. So if you're just interested in homes that sold for, say, $200K to $250K, you can pick those without looking at every sale.
See it here.
We'll add to it every week, with a new map for each...
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We have a new toy in the newsroom. Or some might say it's not new but I've learned how to use it! So that's new, right?
Each week, we're planning to bring you a map of local home sales. Now sure, there is some lag time between sales and when they pop up on the service we use. So today you get a...
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Local appraiser Gary Crabtree has tipped off the FBI, California Department of Real Estate and the California Office of Real Estate Appraisers to what he has termed "suspicious" home sales transactions. And others have since stepped up to verify that mortgage fraud is indeed...
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