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Amador County CA. Real Estate Market Report March 6, 2010

Amador County Real Estate inventory is a little down this month. Today, March 6, 2010 the Amador County Association of REALTORS® MLS shows a total of 362 active residential listings in Amador County, down 6 from last month’s 368.

Amador City SignThese listings have a $ 356,173 average listing price, down about twelve thousand dollars from last month’s average of $ 364,182.

The average number of days on market for these listings is 203 days, Not much change from last month’s 208 days.

In the last month Amador County has had 82 new listings and 27 listings have sold.

Today the lowest priced listing is The same 960 square foot manufactured home on a large .30 acre lot in Meadow Pines (Pioneer) It has 2 bedrooms and 2 baths, new carpet, vinyl, paint, and fixtures and even a pellet stove in the living room. This home was listed at $28,000, it has dropped to just $9,950 without the land. Space rent is $490 per month. Water is $34.96 per month Septic is $18.50 per month. This park DOES include children.

The highest priced listing is a big operating vineyard on over 137 acres in “The Valley.” It is offered for $5.1 million. This one has not dropped.

This month five more properties are in a tie for the median priced listing.  All five of these properties are offered at $ 250,000.  A 2/2 in Sutter Creek with 1040 square feet, a .12 acre lot, origanaly offered at $269,000. A split level 3/2 in Pine Grove with 1728 square feet on a 1.17 acre lot. In Jackson, a 3/1.5 log home with 1498 square feet on a .79 acre lot just off highway 88. Amador City holds a quaint 1339 square foot listing on .17 acre with 3 bedrooms ant 2 baths. And finishing up the tie for median price this month, a rustic 1560 square foot 3/2.5 in the trees. On 2.40 acres this home has lots of storage and visiting deer.

At the rate of sales last month, it would take more than 13 months to deplete the current Amador County Real Estate inventory (if no new listings were made). This is often looked at to decide basic market trends. This number is down some from last month’s 17 month’s inventory. Moving the direction I would like to see but not much.

The National Association of Realtors sometimes defines a market with over six months of inventory as a “buyers market”. Up here in the foothills inventory is often somewhat slower to move. Nonetheless, with over a year of inventory, buyers that are ready, willing, and able, should have their pick.

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Ione, CA. 95640 Real Estate Market Report March 6, 2010

Today Ione has 57 active residential real estate listings.

The average listing price in Ione is $ 224,541 down about $26k from last month’s $ 249,737.

Sunset sky over treesThe average number of days that properties have been on the market is 159 days, down a bit from last month at 178 days.

In the last month Ione has had 19 new listings and 6 listings have sold.

This month the median price in Ione is $245,000. The Listing is a REO (Bank Owned) 3/2 in the Edgebrook area. The home has 2245 square feet of living space and a two car garage.

Ione’s lowest priced home right now is a manufactured home in The Oaks Park. This home is offered at $29,000. And has title issues, seller puts no value on the abandoned home, just the land.

This month the “highest priced listing” in the area is the three bedroom two bath 2084 square foot custom with a huge insulated shop/office. All on 28+ acres. The asking price for this one is $589,000.

One way that the National Association of Realtors defines markets is by months of inventory. If a market has less than six month’s of inventory it is often called a sellers market because the supply is low for the level of demand. Right now Ione has nine and a half months of inventory at the level of sales last month. So using that rule of thumb the Ione market is in a strong buyers market. But that stat is so strongly affected by just a few sales in a market segment as small as Ione. It is only worth paying attention to over time.

Ione has quite a spread of real estate. If you would like to talk about your specific real estate needs, please feel free to email me or drop me a line.

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Jackson, CA. 95642 Real Estate Market Report March 6, 2010

Right now Jackson, CA. has 73 current residential Real Estate listings , with an average price of $ 301,723 up only a couple hundred dollars from February’s $ 301,509 average. In the last month 6 homes have sold but 14 have been newly listed. Jackson’s listings have been on the market for an average of 232 days.

Sculpture kids swinging, Rollingwood, Jackson, CA.Jackson’s median price today, offered at $ 255,000 is a 1680 square foot, three bedroom two bath home on 2 acres. With RV access and a big water tank (big savings on insurance) the one shows lots of pride.

We have a new lowest priced home in Jackson, as of today, a 1056 square foot manufactured 2/2 in Rollingwood. It is offered at $ 39,500 without land.

The highest priced home in Jackson is still the 4134 square foot 4 bedroom 4 bath Frank Lloyd Wright inspired Arts & Crafts Style Executive Home on 2 acres. This home is offered at $1,395,000.

In Jackson the price per square foot ranges from a low of $29.30/ sq.ft. for a manufactured home without land to $96.02 for the lowest price per square foot “stick built” with land, on up to $715.91 for a special place with 135 acres. As you can see, this is yet another statistic that needs to be looked into on an individual basis. Please feeel free to contact me for details that fit your needs.

Jackson has quite a spread of real estate. If you would like to talk about your specific real estate needs, please feel free to email me or drop me a line.

Remember, you can search Jackson Homes For Sale Free at Mainstreet Brokers!

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Sutter Creek, CA. 95685 Real Estate Market Report March 6, 2010

 

Sorry, I’m a few days late with this one, I’ve had a busy week,  Sutter Creek has 38 currant residential Real Estate listings, with an average price of $ 478,702 down $11,000 from Feburay’s  $ 489,576 average. In the last month only 3 homes have sold but 5 have been newly listed. Sutter Creek’s listings have been on the market for an average of 233 days, up a bit from last month’s 220 day average.


Sutter Creek Main Street old buildingsSutter Creek’s $360,000 median price is a two story 2/2 on over a third of an acre. This 1532 square foot home overlooks Highway 49 and might be a great place to set up a business as it is zoned commercial.

The lowest priced home in Sutter Creek as of today is still a 960 square foot manufactured 2/2 in Sutter Terrace Estates. It is offered at $ 85,000 and this one comes with the .08-acre lot.

 

As of today the highest price home in Sutter Creek is again the three story 5 bedroom 3 bath custom, with rock and log construction. On over 49 acres with guesthouse barn and only 4 miles from town, and with creek frontage, this is really something! Offered at $ 1,450,000.

 

With the spread of real estate offerings in Sutter Creek the range of prices per square foot is also very wide. Staring at only $ 61.85 for a manufactured home in Sutter Terrace, and going up to $ 537.04 for this month’s top priced home on almost 50 acres. The median is $ 176.63/sqft.

 

Notice how things just don’t change that fast here in the hills? Much of these stats are the same or very close to last month’s and the month before.

 

As you see, Sutter Creek has quite a spread of real estate. If you would like to talk about your specific real estate needs, please feel free to email me or drop me a line.

Remember, you can search Sutter Creek Homes For Sale Free at Mainstreet Brokers!

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Preston Castle – Bloodthirst 2: Revenge of the Chupacabras

Preston Castle by Myrl Jeffcoat
Preston Castle at Ione, CA (1 picture – no slide show)

A sunny day in Sacramento is usually quick to have me hopping out of bed near first light to see what the day has to offer. 

The plan was to drive south-east out of town on highway 16 and then over to highway 49, to delightful place called Daffodil Hill.  I’m really anxious for winter to be gone, and for spring to sprout forth signs the earth is ready to rise anew.  Sadly, after driving the 37 miles or so, a lady near the entrance told me, the daffodils aren’t quite ready yet.  “We hope they will be up and ready by March 12th” she said! 

So, I performed a 180 turn in the road, and headed back the direction I had come.  Once back on the highway, I decided to head over toward another town, I haven’t blogged about, Ione.

Ione is a little town, which has sat on the skirts of the Gold Rush legends, while many other Mother Lode towns have enjoyed a more robust tapestry of history and legends.

However, there is one astonishing building in Ione, which is worth noting.  Preston Castle is a California State Historic Landmark.  The land for the Castle was purchased in 1890 from Ione Coal & Iron Company.   The castle’s sandstone was quarried a few miles from Ione.  The bricks were created at Folsom and San Quentin prisons.  The cornerstone was set with pomp and ceremony, in late 1890.   The architectural style is described as Romanesque Revival.

The purpose for building the Preston Castle was to accommodate the Preston School of Industry (reform school), in an attempt to rehabilitate juvenile offenders. It closed in 1960 when the school built a new building.  The Castle is now empty, with some action being made to restore it.

As a trivia footnote to the Castle’s history – it was used as the setting for a 2005 movie flick titled, “Bloodthirst 2: Revenge of the Chupacabras” – written and directed by Sacramento’s own news personality, Jonathan Mumm.  

Ironically, a pretty good friend of mine, Bruce Shaw, played the leading role of Detective Steve Andrews. 

For several years, I worked with Bruce at a software development company, where his “day job” was Senior Software Engineer; but his night job “sometimes” consisted of singing wonderful opera roles for the Sacramento Opera Company.  I can still remember his wonderful singing practice runs during break times and lunch.  However, Bruce didn’t sing in the Blood Thirst movie!

The IMDb user reviews rate this movie 3.4 Stars out of a possible 10.  IMDB users state this flick is “Bad, Bad. But surprisingly amusing.”  That is pretty much how I would describe it too.  It would be of the same genre as the “Blair Witch Project” – but didn’t get as much hype and marketing!

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Voices for civility

Last week, Amador Ledger Dispatch Publisher Jack Mitchell published an opinion piece that was anything but civil. Mitchell fell back into an ugly, old habit I keep hoping he will outgrow: calling people names and demonizing individuals and groups with whom he disagrees.

In this week’s paper, the defamed citizens — and several others — responded. But not in kind. They called Mitchell on his bad behavior. But they also called out for respectful, civil discourse.

One letter-writer even pointed out that Mitchell had engaged in exactly that on his front porch when she knocked on his door to ask him to sign the referendum petition challenging the Gold Rush Ranch approval.

Good people can disagree without being disagreeable, juvenile, disrespectful, and hateful. They can, in the words of the famed negotiating book Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, “Be hard on the problem and soft on the people.”

That’s important everywhere. In small communities like ours, it’s critical. No matter what happens with an issue that causes us to disagree today, tomorrow there will still be neighbors to help, causes to support, and community needs to address. We must build and nurture the relationships that allow us to work together, not allow our differences to tear us apart.

I’m so proud of the good people in this county who realize that and put it into practice every day. They — not the folks who resort to personal attack when they don’t get their way — are our true local leaders. And they are the ones who will help us find a path to a prosperous and sustainable future while preserving the small town and rural values we all hold dear.

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Some old but still good random thoughts

This morning, I was looking for an old op-ed piece I’d written in response to one of Amador Ledger Dispatch Publisher Jack Mitchell’s attack pieces (Jack’s been stuck in attack mode for as long as I can remember). I couldn’t find what I was looking for, but did find another commentary I never finished. It seems relevant today, so I thought I’d share an edited excerpt:

Elected officials ignore new ways of thinking at our county’s expense. If they only listen to the people who think like them, they’ll never be challenged to broaden their thinking, find creative solutions, or move beyond the ordinary to the exceptional. They’ll also motivate those who opposed them in the last election to organize for the next one. Power politics begets more power politics—it’s self-perpetuating.

So it’ll be interesting to see whether our elected officials actually work to represent everyone or only their supporters. It’ll say a lot about them as people. And it will give us some sense of where our county is headed: to a positive future focused on problem-solving and common ground, or one bogged down in infighting and dysfunction.

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Plymouth CA. 95669 Real Estate Market Report February 3, 2010

This month Plymouth, CA. has 21 active residential real estate listings, up a few from last month’s 18 listings. The average listing price in Plymouth is $ 847,080, up a bunch from last month’s $ 643,155 but that is just the way statistics change in this kind of small market. Houses in Plymouth have set on the market for an average of 167 days. In the last month Plymouth has had 7 new listings and no reported sales.

Grape vine leavesPlymouth’s median price listing for today is a two-story home on 2.16 acres, offered at $ 499,000. It has 4 bedrooms and 3-1/2 baths, and an attached garage. This home has 3170 square feet of living space. This beauty, and If you like nice woodwork you will know what I mean by beauty, is WAY DOWN from its original price of $729,000. OUCH! This one is out in the country with wonderful oaks and rolling hills.

This month Plymouth’s least expensive listing is a 1026 square foot 3 bedroom 2 bath manufactured home in Plymouth Mobile Manor offered at $55,900 and $ 280 per month space rent.

This month the “highest priced listing” in the area is a special case. A well known running and turn key winery! The two bedroom two bath 1620 square foot home on 32.43 acres, and thousands of cases of wine are all part of the deal. The asking price for this one is $3,250,000.

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Sutter Creek, CA. 95685 Real Estate Market Report February 3, 2010

Sorry I’m a couple of days late with this one, I’ve been fighting a bad cold,  Sutter Creek has 39 currant residential Real Estate listings, with an average price of $ 489,576. In the last month only 1 home has sold but 8 have been newly listed. Sutter Creek’s listings have been on the market for an average of 220 days, down from last month’s 239 day average.


Mining tools Sutter Creek CA oar cart and monitorSutter Creek’s $399,000 median price is now a three way tie. The three listings today are a 2686 square foot 3/2-1/2 on over a half-acre, inSutter Crest Estates, the other its neighbor is a 5/4, 3248 square foot home with tons of room and great views of the valley. And the new listing at this price is a 2660 square foot two story, 3/2.5 Short Sale on .68 acre. All three are close to each other inSutter Crest Estates.

The lowest priced home in Sutter Creek as of today is a 960 square foot manufactured 2/2 in Sutter Terrace Estates. It is offered at $ 85,000 and this one comes with the .08-acre lot.


As of February 3 the highest price home in Sutter Creek is again the three story 5 bedroom 3 bath custom, with rock and log construction. On over 49 acres with guesthouse barn and only 4 miles from town, and with creek frontage, this is really something! Offered at $ 1,450,000.


With the spread of real estate offerings in Sutter Creek the range of prices per square foot is also very wide. Staring at only $ 61.85 for a manufactured home in Sutter Terrace, and going up to $ 537.04 for this month’s top priced home on almost 50 acres.


Notice how things just don’t change that fast here in the hills? Much of these stats are the same or very close to last month’s.


As you see, Sutter Creek has quite a spread of real estate. If you would like to talk about your specific real estate needs, please feel free to email me or drop me a line.

Remember, you can search Sutter Creek Homes For Sale Free at Mainstreet Brokers!

This information is deemed reliable, but you should confirm.

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Pine Grove/Pioneer CA. 95665/95666 Real Estate Market Report February 2, 2010

The Pine Grove and Pioneer areas of Amador County have 118 current residential real estate listings for sale. Right now the average asking price in the area is $ 276,138. The average time it is taking to sell a home is 232 days. In the last month 21 houses have been listed and 13 have sold. The average price of the houses that sold was $ 149,450 with an avg. list price for sold’s of $ 158,269 showing a sale to list price ratio of 94.43%.

Road in the pine trees, Pine GroveThis month’s Pine Grove and Pioneer area’s median price listing is a 2/1 with 1057 square feet, on .56 acre. This is a rented Short Sale, offered at $ 227,000.

Again this month a manufactured two bedroom two bath in Meadow Pines is the least expensive home listed in the area. Asking just $ 9,950 with $490/month space rent. Lots of storage and a nice yard.

The priciest listing in the Pine Grove/Pioneer area continues to be the 3-bedroom four-bath 4200 square-foot beauty with great views and all that upcountry charm. On 11.38 acres it is offered at $1,875,000.

When looking at price per square foot the range is very wide going from $10.36 /sq.ft. for the manufactured home without land, up to $583.98 for a small 1/1 on five desirable acres. With an area median of $132.39/square foot.

With inventory that would be depleted in just over nine months at last months rate (with no new listings) the area is in a rather strong buyers market. At least if you go by the six month rule of thumb.

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