We were kind of at our max. Reporter while the median price of a home in california is 706,000, in the bay area its 1,068,000. This time last year it was 900,000, and 18 increase. There has been a pentup demand for homes in the last several years. We have had a low supply of homes for sale. Reporter while some are leaving the bay area, able to work remotely during the pandemic, realtors say many people still want to live here. This is an area thats surrounded by hightech employers that are willing to pay a lot of money for you to work for them. Even if you want to live here. The weather here is wonderful. Reporter this Real Estate Broker sold the 759 square foot one bed, one bath house in san jose for over asking price, 1,055,000 with six offers. The new owner plans to tier it down and rebuilt. The broker says the biggest factor pushing up home sales is the historic low interest rates. And the two percentile, 2. 5 to 2. 75 . Whenever the cost of money is this low you find people being
Hillside in fairfield go up in flames. Good evening, i am julie haener. It spread to 60 acres before the firefighters were able to get it under control. It is one of several fires burning around the bay area. They continued to fight a much larger fire it has been burning since yesterday and it is east of gilroy. Amber is in fairfield and the flames got close to some of those homes. It is scary for people of this neighborhood. Reporter many refused to leave telling me that they wanted to stay behind to make sure that did everything they could to protect their homes, the whole hill was on fire. The help over there, the one next to the houses. Reporter it broke out 4 30 , monday afternoon in the cordelia area for frilled, people did hose down the grass to protect the property and there was a mandatory order to evacuate 30 homes. It was terrifying. We didnt know it to do, you know . We were scrambling around. Reporter a resident shared these photos with us as the fire moved towards home an
Start off with a live look outside where it is just beautiful as the sun starts to come up. A live look of San Francisco. Just a very little bit of low cloud hanging out in the bay this morning but not anything in the way of fog. San francisco 53 degrees, oakland about 49 and were at 50 in santa rosa and livermore 55 and san jose about 56. I wanted to mention the crews fire we were talking about, we are having better conditions for Fire Fighters and 90 humidity in gilroy and the wind is 3, 4 Miles Per Hour and that is really good news for them. Gives them a chance to get arms around some containment this morning. Wind is relatively calm all across the bay and we got breezy and gusty yesterday and not expecting things to get quite so gusty today and the marine layer not terribly successful this morning so its just a few low clouds out there and well see more of that tomorrow with a chance of fog and today mild to warm temperatures and itll be a Beautiful Day around the bay. 60s on the c
Justice for jayce. Jace young hadnt even started the first grade yet. Hello again everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener working from home tonight. Family, friends and elected leaders gathered in san Franciscos Bayview district tonight calling for answers and solutions. Ktvus amber lee is at San Francisco police headquarters. Reporter San Francisco police said they are investigating leads and interviewing witnesses. At tonights vigil there was a large turnout to support the family. We ask that you look down on his mother. Reporter the vigil for 6 year old narcan opened with a prayer from his family. His father pleaded for help. Justice for jace and this family. Reporter he was less than a mile from his home, watching fireworks at a Friends Birthday Party when he was shot in the chest. He was rushed to the hospital, where he died. Pain and anger and frustration, knowing that my family is grieving in the loss of jace. Reporter jace turned six just four months ago. Is family s
Had been vandalized. Ansar hassan has the video you will only see here on abc 7. Reporter an arrest was made moments after a driver allegedly yelled all lives matter and pulled a gun on a matter of a crowd watching over a black lives matter mural in martinez. He rolled by us and yelled at everybody and flipped us off. So i got on my scale board, just followed him to get the plates. He made a uturn, came back at me and pointed a gun in my face said you want to do something. Thats it. Immediately a cop was behind him and pulled him over thank god. Reporter the suspect was arrested without incident as he put his hands out the window and on Police Command exited his jeep walking backwards towards the officers. A group has been standing guard over the mural after it was defaced on saturday by this unidentified couple claiming all lives matter. I said all lives matter. Reporter as the woman painted, the couple was taunted being called racists and colonizers. Dont resist arrest, it wont be a