South Berkeley Home Sales Data

Click Here to see South Berkeley Home Sales Stats.for the 2nd quarter 1997-2011.  I can customize this report for your neighborhood.  If you would like to request current market data let me know.  Click on my picture for contact information.  Or email me at bill@billfletcherhomes.com

Food trucks coming to Golden Gate Fields

If you missed Off the Grid well here's your chance to find it. Over 30 food trucks for 4 consecutive Saturdays beginning August 27th. They will be serving everything you can imagine! 


Here's the link: Click Here for Info about Food Trucks

Have you been to Downtown Berkeley's free Saturday Night Movies?

Well its a lot of fun and there are only two of the four shows left.
Saturday nights on Center Street in downtown Berkeley (B of A parking lot).  Bring a chair or rent one for $5.  Come in costume.

Entertainers open the show at around 7:30

The remaining shows are:
Raiders of the Lost Ark on 8/20
 and
The Big Lebowski on 8/27
Here's the link for complete info (CLICK HERE)

Open Houses for Sunday 7/10/2011

Click on the following link to get a complete list of Open Houses in the East Bay, Berkeley, Oakland, el Cerrito, Walnut Creek, Piedmont etc for sunday July 10, 2011 http://billfletcherhomes.com/openhomes.  And check my website often for updated market statistics, Open House listings, Active Listings, REO's and Short Sales, Neighborhood Information and more.

We're Back to Normal!

Good news for the housing market!!  The number of NEW foreclosures and notices of default has returned to normal.  What this means is that we are well on the way to a normal housing market.   Picture a python who can eat a pig whole.  That pig works its way through the python's digestive system until it is completely digested. This analogy applies to foreclosures and notices of default.  The system had to digest an extraordinary amount of them.  This lump is working its way through the system and when finished we're back to normal  This information should be of particular interest to buyers who want to purchase at the best time. The bargain window is still open but as it begins to close more buyers will jump in creating more demand and sending prices up.  Mark Zandi from Moody's discusses this on NPR's Planet Money. Click Here

And please remember to use my website for up to date market information, open homes listing, property searches, neighborhood information and more.  And, if you need a property valuation, comps for your home, marketing info,or a referral to one of my preferred vendors please give a call or email. (510) 368-2854, bill@billfletcherhomes.com.

Check out the ART MURMUR!

Every month the crowd gets bigger.  In many ways its like a big block party. Even though publicity says it runs from 6-9 Pm last month it was still going strong as late as 11PM

Oakland Art Murmur is a group of nearly 20 galleries in Oakland that have coordinated openings Wander from gallery to gallery, sample free nibbles, drink some free wine, see occasional outdoor movies and fine some new artists to love at venues like 21 Grand, Blank Space, Luka’s Taproom, Rowan Morrison, Rock Paper Scissors Collective and more.


Every First Friday of the month, member galleries are open to the public from 6-9 pm. Additionally 23rd Street between Telegraph and Valley is closed to car traffic, and craft, art, and food vendors are set up along this corridor.

Getting There:
Member galleries are generally located between 22nd and 26th Street and along the Broadway/Telegraph corridors. You may view the map for more specific locations. To get to the area using BART, get off at the 19th Street Oakland stop, which is only a few blocks away. The 12 (Grand St), 51A (Broadway), and 1(Telegraph) AC TRANSIT buses also come right to the Uptown District.

For more information CLICK HERE
Remember to email or phone me for home valuations, help on real estate related questions and needs and check out my website for Sunday Open Houses, Property searches, Market Data by zip code, home buying and home selling tips and more

What is going on in the El Cerrito Home Market?

While most of the Bay Area housing market has stabilized or has taken a small dip over the past few months, the city of El Cerrito has shown a steadily decline in housing prices and a steady increase of days on market.  If you were ever thinking of puchasing a home in El Cerrito its time to pull the trigger!  Look at the charts below.

Charts like these for other zipcodes in the East Bay are available on my website, http://www.billfletcherhomes.com/.

Just click the Market Data tab