July Real Estate Statistics are out — and the news is that home prices are trending up across much of the Bay Area.

Home prices rose solidly in six of Pacific Union’s seven real estate markets in July. Napa County led the pack, with the median home price jumping nearly 24 percent in one year. In Contra Costa County, home prices rose 9.5 percent to $684,250.

There’s an interesting article on the Pacific Union blog which talks about this rising home price trend and draws from both in-house data as well as statistics from the National Association of Realtors, Corelogic, and Freddie Mac.

Read “Home Prices Rising Across the Bay Area” at http://bit.ly/QmVh34.