That is down 5% in the year. Countywide median selling price of $388,500 was down 5.2% in the year. Trabuco/Coto home sales were 1.3% of total Orange County sales in the period vs. 1.1% a year ago.

Update, April 21, 2013: The real-estate data firm Kwelia updated its map of Bay Area rental prices to make it a little more nuanced. The firm revised the map to show median (instead of average) ...

On a new Bay Area wildfire-risk map that gauges the threat of wind-driven embers, Lars Guntvedt’s neighborhood in the hills above Los Gatos sits in the highest-danger zone. Like many of his of ...