{"id":87,"date":"2026-10-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2026-10-10T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:00:00","slug":"is-my-bay-area-home-value-going-up-or-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/10\/is-my-bay-area-home-value-going-up-or-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Is my Bay Area home value going up or down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Many clients have asked me lately: is my Bay Area home value moving up or down? It\u2019s a question I hear often, and for good reason\u2014your home is both a financial asset and a personal milestone. In August, home values actually rose across all nine Bay Area counties. San Francisco led the way with a 1.8% increase for the month, bringing the typical value up to $1.42M. That\u2019s a 13.7% jump compared to last year, though it\u2019s still 4.6% below the 2022 peak. Atherton, meanwhile, saw the largest city increase at 1.9%.<\/p>\n<p>After more than four decades serving buyers and sellers throughout the Peninsula, I know how important it is to put these numbers in context for your specific neighborhood and situation. Real estate decisions are deeply personal, and I\u2019m here to help you interpret what these market shifts may mean for your next step\u2014always with your needs and concerns front and center.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/local\/article\/bay-area-home-values-22435167.php\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many clients have asked me lately: is my Bay Area home value moving up or down? It\u2019s a question I hear often, and for good reason\u2014your home is both a financial asset and a personal milestone. In August, home values actually rose across all nine Bay Area counties. San Francisco led the way with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lynnemercer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}