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Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Location, Location, Location

I’m back in the Bay Area for work, and out of curiosity I thought I’d check in on the housing market here. After updating my super-secret source of housing sales, I tried something new; charting price paid for square foot by county.

This was on a tip from Mark Mansour, a fellow recent Melbourne homebuyer; although it’s not perfect, valuing just by land size is a simple, frank and easy-to-calculate assessment of price.

Here are the results; I filtered out homes whose habitable square footage was near the land size, to try to remove apartments.

The interesting things to note;

• San Francisco is expensive, and strong;
• The Peninsula and Marin have flattened out, but aren’t dropping (at least in nominal value)
• The East Bay, Napa and Sonoma are starting to dip, in nominal and real terms.

Filed under: Bay Area, Economics

discussion of this entry

Thomas Pan said…

Man,

How you do that? This is really awesome!

Best,
Thomas

Wednesday, February 13 2008 at 5:26 PM +10:00

Mark Nottingham said…

Python, Excel and HTTP :)

Thursday, February 14 2008 at 2:06 AM +10:00

Matt Kaufman said…

"Python, Excel and HTTP :)"

Great quote...... I use Ruby, Excel and HTTP more than python though.

Saturday, February 13 2010 at 8:21 AM +10:00