Geek's Number Talk: Size Matters (Redux)

With more people working and educating their kids from home, it probably shouldn’t come as a big surprise that bigger homes are trending. As you’ll find from this graph, Santa Clara County saw a huge spike in sales by square footage in Q3 2020. We’ll see if things shrink back to normal in 2021.

Geek's Number Talk: Santa Clara County Q1 sales were voluminous!

Without really digging into this graph, you wouldn’t even know we had a global pandemic, civil unrest, and an economic shutdown across multiple industries.

But as you can see, Q4 2020 sales volume far exceeded past performance, and Q1 2021 came in a whopping 45% up from a year prior.

We’ll see what this means for Q2, which accounts for most of the spikes in this graph — at least until 2020.

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Geek's Number Talk: California sets high goals for low energy

If you’re into energy conservation, then California is the place you want to be. The Golden State has set a goal of reducing carbon pollution to 1990 levels by 2030. That’s like taking 5.6 million cars off the road every year. But would you guess the housing sector accounts for 13% of the Bay Area’s greenhouse gas emissions?

Learn how we can all help to keep California golden.