Hot Oakland, CA Real Estate

[Don Souza]

I've lived in the Bay Area all my life, and now Oakland has finally become HOT real estate! I'm evaluating the neighborhoods for good investment opportunities.

http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2016/01/20/oakland-poised-to-be-the-bay-areas-hottest-market-in-2016/

[Rich P.]

Originally posted by @Don Souza:

I've lived in the Bay Area all my life, and now Oakland has finally become HOT real estate! I'm evaluating the neighborhoods for good investment opportunities.

http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2016/01/20/oakland-poised-to-be-the-bay-areas-hottest-market-in-2016/

 This blows my mind. That area around Jefferson...East/South Oakland near Fruitvale..to that Eastmont shopping center..Maxwell Park. Anything between the Coliseum  and the 13 etc. Yes there are SO MANY terrible homes to buy and fix up. But the area is aweful IMO. Other people may move there but theres no way I would with my family. My SO really wanted to be in Oakland so we spent a lot of time looking around. No matter how cute of a house we found that was incredibly refurbished and renovated, we never got the feel of 'yeah I can feel comfortable going to the store here or walking my dog around the neighborhood'. We couldn't pull the trigger. The more time we spent looking the more we realized we would never feel safe even going to the grocery store in those neighborhoods. Its a shame because that area geographically is brilliant. The people down there still remain pretty damn ghetto.