http://www.oakland-homes-for-sale.com/blog Real Estate in Oakland California and Throughout California's East Bay Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:47:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In an effort to stop bleeding money on this site, we've moved back to our good friends over at Kattare Internet. A few things broke along the way -- you might follow a link to a page and get redirected to one of the other main pages of the site.  Also ... http://www.oakland-homes-for-sale.com/blog/2006/12/30/weve-moved/ Hi Gang, The live MLS search feature of this site will be going away in a short time -- basically as soon as I can get a visitor response page coded and test the existing links.  Unfortunately, this site has yet to pay for itself, so we're needing to cut back ... http://www.oakland-homes-for-sale.com/blog/2006/12/20/live-search-going-away-soon/ It fizzled for awhile, and then rose Phoenix-like from the ashes.  I hope Phoenixes can fly, because it then flew (yes, I'm sticking with flew) to the east, to become the Amador and El Dorado County Blogathon for Hunger.  If you want to sign up for this one, please get ... http://www.oakland-homes-for-sale.com/blog/2006/12/03/what-became-of-the-blogathon/ If anyone's been following this blog, first of all, let me say, thank you for following this blog.  I didn't know you were, though if I thought about it I could guess since that's after all where most of this site's traffic comes from. Secondly, let me apologize, to wit:  I'm ... http://www.oakland-homes-for-sale.com/blog/2006/11/13/where-did-i-go/ I've been thinking of what the direction for this site should be going forward, so I'm interested in constructive input about this.  I've been blogging here for several months, and the IDX and other pages of the site are working well.  However, I haven't yet achieved #1 ranking on all ... http://www.oakland-homes-for-sale.com/blog/2006/10/11/request-for-input/ August's condo market in Oakland was something of a numerical mixed bag.  Of course "we all know" (those three little words that signify something coming up that many of us think we know) that the real estate market has cooled significantly from 2004-2005.  And some of the condo numbers support ... http://www.oakland-homes-for-sale.com/blog/2006/09/21/real-estate-market-oakland-condos/ Not long ago we were very "bullish" on Oakland's real estate market.  Based on numbers for Oakland and Berkeley, and especially when we compared these numbers to the Sacramento area, Oakland seemed fairly immune to the slowing we'd seen elsewhere. Today we reassess that opinion, since the numbers are a mixed ... http://www.oakland-homes-for-sale.com/blog/2006/09/01/oakland-real-estate-market-august-2006/ Traditional wisdom is that when the market adjusts downward, the first segment of the market to feel the price drops is the condo market. Today I thought it would be illuminating to look at condo sales for July of 2006 in Oakland, to see how much the sales are ... http://www.oakland-homes-for-sale.com/blog/2006/08/25/oakland-condo-inventory-tops-seven-months/ My visible friend, Kris Berg, recently posted an interesting article about how strongly she feels about doing her own blogging, and not doing Walmart style real estate, serving clients directly, and other similar ideas.  I find that article a handy springboard for today's I ain't gonna publish MLS statistics no-more ... http://www.oakland-homes-for-sale.com/blog/2006/08/24/the-enterprise-of-blogging/ Concord's residential real estate marekt showed some significant slowing from last year in July. Sold units were down some 41%, from 216 sold in July of 2005 to 128 in July 2006. Moreover, units that did sell took "on average exactly" (is that an oxymoron) twice as long ... http://www.oakland-homes-for-sale.com/blog/2006/08/24/concord-real-estate-july-2006-market-update/