Maureen Kennedy, Piedmont CA Broker

A nice little reminder of new credits (including the first-time homebuyer tax credit) and tax-saving opportunities is at this IRS site---  

  Their web geeks developed this cool, if thought-provoking and intimidating, graphic to convey the trends in 20 metropolitan housing markets. Take a look and click through the cities.

While the Piedmont market has weathered the national real estate bust remarkably well, we're not immune from the pressures swirling about us, as recent data illustrate.  Through 2008, the average price of a Piedmont home settled in at $1.575 million ($583/sf), down about 3 percent from $1.62 mill...