California home sales declined from both the prior month and year in January, according to information from the California Association of Realtors. The median price also was lower, primarily due to a sales increase in the distressed market. “Record low interest rates and favorable home prices continue
Read more →Building permits and housing starts were up in January. Information recently released from the United States Department of Commerce’s Economic & Statistics Administration shows that in January 2012 building permits were 676,000, up 0.7 percent from December and up 19.0 percent from January 2011. Housing starts in
Read more →California’s housing affordability rose to its highest level in fourth-quarter 2011, matching a record high set in 2009, thanks to lower home prices and record-low interest rates, California Association of Realtors recently reported. The percentage of home buyers who could afford to purchase a median-priced, existing single-family
Read more →By Diane Batley Dalsaso Located on the shore of Humboldt Bay, King Salmon, California offers prospective buyers the opportunity to own waterfront property. In January 1948, Gisela Kinder and her late husband Johnny Kinder took advantage of that opportunity. The Kinders met in Germany while Johnny was stationed
Read more →Eureka finished December 2011 with median home sales of $189,000. The last time median home sales were lower in the month of December in Eureka was in 2003 when median home sales were at $186,000, according to Humboldt Association of Realtors housing affordability indexes information. Median home
Read more →Humboldt County’s median home sale price dropped to $217,000 in November 2011. Not since January 2004, when the median home sale price was $197,000, has the median price of all the homes sold in Humboldt County been lower than the numbers released this week by the Humboldt
Read more →We’re live! The search Humboldt MLS page is active and ready for you to find your perfect place. Thanks to Paul and Matt at flexmls for helping us work out the kinks. We’ll be adding innovative and compelling content that you won’t find elsewhere, so come back
Read more →Welcome to the first posting from the Humboldt Bay Realty blog! Future posts on this blog will contain information about Humboldt County houses, property and the people connected with them. From research gathered from various sources including interviews, articles and information that people send me, I’d like
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