Time To Look Back At The Peninsula Housing Market for 2011

Time to look back at the Peninsula housing market in 2011.

Being in the trenches, we know well ahead of the reported statistics how the housing market performed but it’s always interesting to look back and see what the numbers bear.

These three charts represent the median home price for the past three years in Palo Alto, Belmont and Daly City . We chose Palo Alto because that city enjoys leaded edge price stability and recovery. Belmont is less insulated from market volatility and is probably more typical of the average Peninsula city housing trend.

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As denoted by the red trend lines in both of these graphs, Peninsula housing prices, while suffering from typical seasonal fluctuations, are overall showing signs of a steady but slow increase in the median home price.

If this doesn’t seem to jive with the media reports of continual home price erosion it’s probably because the reports you’re hearing are for cities such as the one in our third chart for Daly City, which represents a continual decline in home values in highly affected areas to our the north such as South San Francisco, Daly City and Colma.

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