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Santa Cruz County Inventory  May 12th 2009 These are interesting times in Santa Cruz County with regards to real estate. This is the time of year that Buyers get real active in finding the right property to purchase. Our high season for local real estate happens like the farming season for our fr...

   Most people would be surprised at the percent breakdown between Foreclosure Sales, Short Sales, REO, and regular Grand Deeds in Santa Cruz County. The graph below does a good job in showing what is really happening in our local real estate market. As you can see the majority of homes that clos...

Santa Cruz County Notice of Defaults   It is a well-known fact that Watsonville and South Santa Cruz County have been the hardest hit areas with regards to Foreclosures and Short Sales. Thus it is not a big surprise that Watsonville has the most NODs in the county. But what is really surprising i...

Santa Cruz Median Home Price Surprise?   Pick up the newspaper or watch the news on TV and you can't help but see how bad the news in the real estate market. However there are some areas in the country where property values have not been hit as hard as the central valley area of California. Certa...