Doug Buenz
Real Estate Broker
Alain Pinel Realtors
(925) 463-2000
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I am a local Real Estate Broker with Alain Pinel Realtors serving the Pleasanton and the Tri-Valley area. I am an avid watcher of the local real estate market, as well as cultural and political events. But that is what I do, not who I am... » read more
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The average household in the United States will spend about $2,140 on energy costs in a year, according to the Alliance to Save Energy. Do you want to track the energy use in your home? The first step may be to you learn how to use your PG&E SmartMeterTM, if it has been …
San Ramon was the exception to the rule in the Tri-Valley in June, posting a 40% increase in pending sales. That’s a nice bounce back after posting sharp declines in pending sales last month. Inventory also increased but not as sharply as pending sales.
Overall, pending sales increased from 55 at the end of …
The Dublin real estate market softened in June but remained quite healthy. Inventory increased 26%, from 50 homes at the end of May to 63 at month-end June. Inventory relative to pending sales increased to 1.8 months in June, from 1.3 months in May. That is the highest relative inventory level in …
Now from the Good News department (we certainly can use it). Bay Area graduates can look forward to having some of the best salary growth prospects in the country. According to Payscale.com and Yahoo Hot Jobs, the San Francisco, Oakland, Fremont area ranked #4 in the country for large metropolitan areas. The …
The real estate market in the Hansen Hill/The Ridge neighborhood of Dublin kept humming along over the past six months. New properties continue to come on the market, with many of them selling quickly. Some others that were listed for a longer period are pending sale. Six of the 16 (38%) of …
It’s still years away but a big preliminary step was taken when the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board of Directors approved station locations for a BART extension to Livermore. The Board approved stations in downtown Livermore and Vasco Road.
According to The Independent, the extension “would travel down I-580 from the Dublin/Pleasanton …
The Golden Eagle Estates neighborhood of Pleasanton continues to plug along with a sale every couple of months or so. Two homes that had been on the market for about two years were sold while a few new properties were listed during the past six months. None of the homes in this neighborhood …
Blackhawk Plaza is heating up for summer, with a variety of activities for the entire family.
Oops! You missed the June 30 deadline to close on the purchase of your new home and lost the federal home buyer tax credit. It wasn’t your fault, right? You had a contract in place by April 30, as required and you did everything you were supposed to. But the appraisal …
It’s difficult to sell homes if there are none to sell. That has been pretty much of the story in the Ventana Hills neighborhood of Pleasanton. There are no active listings or pending sales and only three closed sales during the past six months. In order to add a little more depth …
After having no activity during the first four months of 2010, the Oak Hill neighborhood of Pleasanton finally had some homes come on the market in May and June. Those homes sold quickly. Two homes remain for sale in Oak Hill and there are no pending sales. There were four closed sales …
CNN/Money magazine just came out with their top 100 Best Places to Live in 2010, and Pleasanton came in at number 63. Hey, not bad! The only other California cities to make the list were Irvine (22), Yorba Linda (38), and Rocklin (65).
The only negative mentioned was that “homes are expensive”. No …
The Pleasanton real estate market saw more closed home sales in June, with 74 closed single family homes, compared to 58 in May. The median sales price for Pleasanton was $822,500 in June, way up from $722,500 in May, largely due to a larger percentage of homes priced over $1 million (30% in June …
The Danville real estate market saw more closed home sales in June, with 61 closed single family homes, compared to 40 in May. The median sales price for Danville was $832,500 in June, down from $870,000 in May. The median price per square foot decreased slightly to $349 in June from $35- in …
The San Ramon real estate market saw fewer closed home sales in June, with 57 closed single family homes, compared to 60 in May. The median sales price for San Ramon was $712,000 in June, up from $680,000 in May. However, the median price per square foot decreased to $307 in June from …
