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Archive for May, 2010
April 2010 Benicia & Vallejo Home Sales
May 18th, 2010 categories: Benicia, Buying, Market Update, Selling, Vallejo
Curious what that Benicia home down the street sold for last month? Wonder how much your Vallejo neighbor sold his home sold for? Or how long it took a certain Vallejo or Benicia home to sell?
Just download our April Benicia and Vallejo Home Sale Reports for those answers and more. Some highlights from April’s Benicia & Vallejo Home Sale Reports appears below. Read the rest of this entry »
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April Solano Home Sales Report: Prices Holding Steady And Up County-Wide Over Last Year
May 11th, 2010 categories: Benicia, Buying, Fairfield-Gr Valley, Market Update, Selling, Solano, Suisun City, Vacaville, Vallejo
April’s home sales numbers are in for Solano County and on a county-wide basis, the median price last month was $200,000 — exactly the same as it was in March.
Vacaville, Vallejo and Suisun all reported median prices that were almost the same as the previous month, while Benicia’s median was way up and Fairfield’s was noticeably down.
The huge jump in Benicia’s median price is probably Read the rest of this entry »
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Why There May Be Almost Twice As Much State Tax Credit Money As Everyone Thought
May 10th, 2010 categories: Buying
As you’ll recall, back on Apr. 15, I wrote that our state association, the California Assn. of Realtors, projected that the state’s new first-time and new-home buyer tax credits might all be gone within a matter of days, once May 1 arrived and eligible buyers started sending in their tax credit paperwork.
Well, it’s still too early to know for sure, but based on ‘early returns,’ CAR’s doom-and-gloom prediction may turn out to be rather exaggerated.
$100 Million Or $175 Million?
All along the state has been saying that only $100 million was allocated to fund the tax credit. But is that really true? Well kinda-sorta. Read the rest of this entry »
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Benicia Going Green…But Not For Much Longer
May 8th, 2010 categories: Buying, Fun Stuff, Local Stuff
Benicia is very green these days, but that’s all about to change…and probably well before the end of May.
No, I’m not talking about the city’s environmental efforts. I’m talking about Benicia’s gorgeous green hills.
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Watch My Benicia Vegetable Garden Grow: Week 2 Update
May 6th, 2010 categories: Benicia, Fun Stuff
It’s been a little over two weeks since I planted my Benicia vegetable garden. In the past week, some of the tomato plants have grown another 8-10 inches. The little yellow flowers are already starting to appear on some of the plants.
The other veggies — green peppers, pickling cucumbers, green beans, beets, and green onions — also are continuing to grow quite nicely. Read the rest of this entry »
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