There’s good news and bad news in the Napa County real estate market.
The good news?
“First-time buyers can buy a home for significantly less than they could in 2005 or 2006,” said Realtor David Barker of Frank Howard Allen. “Some buyers priced out of the market can now buy.”
The bad news?
In the past 12 months, the [...]

Foreclosures? Defaults? Falling home prices? Fire sales?
These are like foreign words to St. Helena homeowners, who have remained relatively unscathed by the badly troubled housing market going on all around them. While housing values have nose-dived to their lowest levels in more than two decades in the rest of Napa County and elsewhere in California, [...]