{"id":11,"date":"2026-09-28T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/janecresswellrealestate-com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2026-09-28T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:00:00","slug":"bay-area-luxury-home-sales-gain-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janecresswellrealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/28\/bay-area-luxury-home-sales-gain-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area Luxury Home Sales Gain Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/jane-cresswell-356076\/luxury-home-sales-remotion-videos-1ed0\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In the San Francisco Bay Area, affluent AI employees drove stronger luxury buying, staying active despite higher mortgage costs and rising home prices.<br \/>\nThese buyers pursued multimillion-dollar homes and often relied on cash or large down payments funded by investments, making mortgage-rate swings less central to decisions.<br \/>\nThe quickened Bay Area luxury pace underscored a market split, with financially advantaged households moving decisively while less affluent buyers remained more constrained.<br \/>\nExpected wealth from AI public offerings added urgency, with some Bay Area house hunters moving faster ahead of possible new competition from newly wealthy employees.<br \/>\nOne buyer, after a year-long search, went under contract on a five-bedroom home in Orinda, reflecting how expected competition accelerated decisions in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the San Francisco Bay Area, affluent AI employees drove stronger luxury buying, staying active despite higher mortgage costs and rising home prices. These buyers pursued multimillion-dollar homes and often relied on cash or large down payments funded by investments, making mortgage-rate swings less central to decisions. The quickened Bay Area luxury pace underscored a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janecresswellrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janecresswellrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janecresswellrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janecresswellrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janecresswellrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.janecresswellrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.janecresswellrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janecresswellrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janecresswellrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janecresswellrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janecresswellrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}