May 17, 2013 · 9:03 am

Bay Area Median Home Price Tops $500,000 For The First Time In Five Years

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Bay Area realtors and homeowners are getting the feeling that the recovery is in full swing with median home price for single-family homes, duplexes, and all other types of dwellings, in the Bay Area have now exceeding $500,000. That’s the first time that the medium price has reached this level in close to five years.

Goodbye Underwater Homes

With home values quickly going up, the average, median home price of a Bay Area home is now $510,000, and this is also helping to dramatically decrease the quantity of homes that can be considered underwater in the Bay Area’s nine counties.

This is awesome news for underwater homeowners who had been waiting years for their own values to go up so they could once again sell their homes and not have to come out of pocket to make the transaction come together.

A Real Life Example

A good example of someone who is benefiting from the increase in home values is Pleasant Hill resident Jon Carlson, a homeowner who bought his home back in 2007 for just over $650,000 and, after the Real Estate market crash, Mr. Carlson’s homes was appraised at $400,000; the good news is that thanks to the rapid growth of the Bay Area real estate market, Jon Carlson was able to recently sell his home for $679,000 after he originally listed it at $649,000.

In a recent interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Kevin Kieffer, a real estate agent with Keller Williams Realty, and also the real estate agent for Jon Carlson said recently “The market’s got a huge trajectory,” and this is something that all Realtors in the Bay Area including top listing agents across the United States would agree with. Click here to read the full article 

Year Over Year Gains

For those people following the progress of the Bay Area Real Estate market, home prices have appreciated almost 40% since April of 2012 alone, we know this thanks to a recent report released by real estate giant Dataquick.

The time to buy a home in Pleasant Hill and anywhere else in the Bay Area is now, for more information about home values in the Bay Area, please leave a reply below or contact Kevin Kieffer directly at: (925) 300-8000.

If you are searching for a home in Pleasant Hill please go to: www.LiveMLSaccess.com; or if you are interested in your home value, then click here or go to: EastBayPro.com/Home-Values.asp (automatic home value report generated in just 5 minutes)

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May 15, 2013 · 6:04 pm

Pleasant Hill Residents Say Goodbye To The Dome

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Pleasant Hill movie fans will forever keep the Pleasant Hill Dome in their hearts since it’s now officially a memory as it was demolished last week to make way for sporting a goods store to overhaul the aging Crossroads shopping center in Pleasant Hill.

Went Down Fighting

The Dome as it was known among Pleasant Hill residents was an entertainment destination for Pleasant Hill and East Bay residents who wanted to watch the latest hit movie over the last 46 years but, once the decision was made to demolish the Dome.

Pleasant Hill locals didn’t give up without a fight and they even hired their own lawyer to stave off the destruction of their beloved CinéArts movie theater but, unfortunately, those efforts were wasted as the City Council ended up voting 3-2 on Tuesday May 7th to let the Pleasant Hill Dome be demolished.

End Of Independent Movies In Pleasant Hill?

One of the biggest arguments that locals used to try and keep the Pleasant Hill Dome alive was that it was one of the last locations just east of the well-known Caldecott Tunnel that still showed independent movies compared to the wide variety of big budget Hollywood Movies in circulation today.

Pleasant Hill’s mayor Michael Harris also fought for the Dome as well but, ultimately he was out voted and Harris is hopeful that another location will soon rise in Pleasant Hill that will become a “mecca” for independent movies just like the dome once was.

To learn more about the end of the Pleasant Hill Dome, please leave a reply below or contact Kevin Kieffer directly at (925) 300-8000.

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May 10, 2013 · 3:33 pm

O’Brien Homes Starting New Home Lottery For Prospective Homebuyers

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Bay Area Real Estate Agents know that competition is high right now but demand is also high across the country especially for people who want to purchase new homes.

In California demand for new homes has gotten so competitive that O’Brien Homes, a California home builder has started a lottery for Fusion, their most recent new housing development that it currently has under construction in Sunnyvale.

Why Start A New Home Lottery?

O’Brien Homes started the new home lottery after seeing groups of prospective home buyers in the area camp out, waiting for new homes, duplexes and condos to open up once construction finished.

According to O’Brien Homes, once they up parts of the home developments they are working on, up to 50 home buyers, or more, have been at one of any of their sales offices with an intent to buy.

More Qualified Buyers Compared To Years Past

Thanks to low mortgage interest rates, more jobs and an improving economy, there are more qualified buyers on the Real Estate market than in the last two years and compared to the Real Estate market of 2004 to 2007, these are home buyers who also have a down payment in hand and are ready to buy.

A Solution To The Problem?

The O”Brien Homes lottery seems to be working as more home buyers in the Bay Area these days are able to get into homes than in recent months because, thanks to the chances of the home lottery more prospective home buyers stand a higher chance of being able to get into a home instead of going away disappointed.

Due to the success of the O’Brien home lottery, more home builders in the Bay Area including Shea Homes are using similar lotteries to help homebuyers get into new homes.

To learn more about new homes for sale in the Bay Area please leave a reply below or contact Kevin Kieffer directly at (925) 300-8000.

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May 9, 2013 · 5:14 pm

Kessil A350W at All About Fish in Pleasant Hill, California

Tatao, owner of All About Fish in Pleasant Hill, California shares his experiences to date with the Kessil A350W LED Aquarium Light. Tatao is using three Kessil A350W LED Aquarium Lights over a 72″x24″x30″ high installation.

Be sure to check out the HD version, loaded with terrific corals especially SPS!

To learn more about Pleasant Hill Businesses, please leave a reply below or contact Kevin Kieffer directly at: (925) 300-8000.

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May 8, 2013 · 5:17 pm

College Park Beats Clayton Valley 1-0 Thanks To Bases Loaded Single By Mitchell

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In the latest College Park High School baseball game, the Falcons Jeffrey Mitchell was the hero of the game as he came up to the plate with the bases loaded in the 8th inning to hit a walk off single to win the game for his team.

Exciting Baseball

It doesn’t matter if you’ve been a baseball fan for a few weeks or years, College Park Baseball is exciting to watch especially thanks to contributions of players like Nick Oar, who once again had a solid 2 for 3 game, and Joe DeMers who dominated Clayton Valley by only giving up just three singles, no walks and three strikeouts in his latest appearance.

Player Of The Game

Joe DeMers, who now has a 7 and 0 record was named player of the game by his coaches and his teammates will undoubtedly agree in voting him player of the game since his strong pitching gave his teammates confidence to play another solid game and enable coach Andy Tarpley to enjoy the performance of his players as they went on to win the game 1-0.

To learn more about College Park High School Baseball, please leave a reply below or contact Kevin Kieffer directly at(925) 300-8000.

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· 7:42 am

Pleasant Hill California Grew In 2012

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Pleasant Hill grew a little bit last year; according to a recent report by the Department of Finance we know that the city’s population grew by 0.5 percent in 2012 as close to 200 people moved to the area and the city’s population increased to 33,633 by January 1st of 2013.

A Growing City

Thanks to the recent Department of Finance statistics Pleasant Hill residents also have more reasons to celebrate since the city now ranks number 11 out of 19 incorporated cities in Contra Costa, California.

What’s causing more people to move to Pleasant Hill? There are a variety of reasons including a progressive business environment, affordable of Pleasant Hill homes relative to neighboring Walnut Creek & Lafayette.  For the 15-25% value difference between those cities and Pleasant Hill , it makes great financial sense. Homes in the area are selling at a pace that hasn’t been since 2004-2007.

2013 Outlook And Beyond

Business owners in Pleasant Hill are hopeful that the economic recovery will continue throughout the rest of 2013 and well into 2014 and with all of the recent companies that have moved to Pleasant hill or are eyeing leasing space here it looks like they will get there wish.

Among the businesses that are expected to open up stores or add locations in Pleasant Hill are: Gator Bob’s and Opus Bank; the expansion of both companies in Pleasant Hill will ultimately mean more jobs, tax dollars and progress for our local economy.

Pleasant Hill Homes for Sale

As the economy continues to improve in Pleasant Hill there are still plenty of prime homes for sale in the area and thanks to historically low mortgage interest rates there’s never been a better time than right now to buy a home in Pleasant Hill.

To learn more about the latest Pleasant Hill news, please leave a reply below or contact Kevin Kieffer directly at: (925) 300-8000.

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May 2, 2013 · 5:53 pm

Pleasant Hill Market

Pleasant Hill Market , Pleasant Hill, California for all your produce needs.

To learn more about Pleasant Hill Market, please leave a reply below or contact Kevin Kieffer directly at (925) 300-8000.

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