Although foreclosure sales have slowed down in Galt as elsewhere in Sacramento county, they remain the majority of homes sold. 52% of all homes sold in the Galt area are now foreclosures - a better percentage some would argue than a year ago when...
Friday, January 22, 2010 | Sacramento Real Estate Blog
The Fair Oaks real estate market suffered a bit of a lull in the month of December. Home sales were down as well as the prices. 36 homes sold in the month as compared with 39 a year ago at the same time. That was a 7.7% drop year over year. All...
Thursday, January 21, 2010 | Sacramento Real Estate Blog
Nothing much has changed in the Carmichael area in terms of real estate sales or prices year over year. In fact, almost the same number of homes sold at almost the same prices as last December. How’s that for stability? 32 homes sold in the...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | Sacramento Real Estate Blog
This is the most complex proposal of the seven and also appears to have the most supporters. With the NBA and Maloofs liking it, this could be the plan that moves to the next phase. In short, this deal involves selling Cal Expo land for...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | LivingInUrbanSac
Doug Tatara is the creator of the “Sacramento 2015” or “The New Cal Expo” which would build a new arena, theme park and express monorail between downtown and Cal Expo. Doug’s concept includes building a working theme park/entertainment...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | LivingInUrbanSac
As prices edge closer to the point at which they were a year ago with price declines at single digits, home sales are still falling in some areas. Homeowners in those areas are waiting for the sweet spot where prices stop falling and sales begin...
Monday, January 18, 2010 | Sacramento Real Estate Blog
The Natomas ESC Partners have a vision to build a new arena to the north of the old Arco Arena with the intent to using both facilities and doubling the 200 annual events currently held at Arco Arena. The development team would enter into a...
Sunday, January 17, 2010 | LivingInUrbanSac
Thomas Enterprises, Inc. has a proposal of an Sacramento Intermodal Transportation Facility (“SITF”) that would make our city proud. To be located just behind the RR Depot after the tracks are moved north, this would a $500 project that would...
Saturday, January 16, 2010 | LivingInUrbanSac
This concept is one of my favorites and turns what is now four blocks of a dying mall into an entrainment complex with a shopping mall wrapping it on three sides. I really like the rendering above looking up at the arenas glass walls allowing it...
Friday, January 15, 2010 | LivingInUrbanSac
240 homes sold in Elk Grove this past month, an overall unit volume decrease of 7% year over year. Foreclosures alone fell by 46.3% year over year from 190 sold last December to just 102 this month. Inversely, short sales rose by 113.5% for the...
Friday, January 15, 2010 | Sacramento Real Estate Blog
Tonight’s arena presentations at City Hall were inspiring. Of the seven original proposals submitted to City Hall last month, three stood out in my mind as having potential to take the next step if funding can be found. Because there were so...
Thursday, January 14, 2010 | LivingInUrbanSac
Even in the holiday season, Folsom posted more home sales in the month of December than it did in the previous month. 77 homes sold this month leading to an overall unit volume increase of 54% year over year. In fact, we saw increases in every...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | Sacramento Real Estate Blog
El Dorado county seems to trail behind Sacramento county trends by as much as six months to a year as we have seen in the past. As such, for this market update as well we are seeing the same things we saw in Sacramento county a few months ago....
Monday, January 11, 2010 | Sacramento Real Estate Blog
This Thursday the 14th the Sacramento Arena Task Force will showcase all seven of the arena proposals in the lobby of City Hall at 915 I Street. Each developer will make a short presentation starting a 5 pm with developers afterward taking...
Saturday, January 9, 2010 | LivingInUrbanSac
Home prices are up year over year second month in a row! And look, I wasn’t here to report it on the third of the month, that is, as soon as I found out. But as John eloquently informed you, by copying an announcement from my Facebook page,...
Friday, January 8, 2010 | Sacramento Real Estate Blog
The new City of Sacramento General Plan includes additional Sacramento River crossings without specifying the location or number of crossings or the transportation modes served by new crossings. The cost of the study will be $260,000 with both The...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 | LivingInUrbanSac
http://bit.ly/4Mh7wK Prescription narcotics cause more deaths than both heroin and cocaine Wednesday, December 23, 2009 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) On the heels of the sudden death of celebrity actress Brittany Murphy...
Saturday, January 2, 2010 | Sane & Sober Housing: Sacramento
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Friday, January 1, 2010 | Sacramento Land(ing)
A new friend of mine from Equador, whom I met on the outstanding language learning blog LiveMocha.com, told me about the old year (año viejo) celebrations they have in Equador. As I understand it, they build intricate representations of things...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | Sacramento Real Estate Blog
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