Although starter homes ($400K to $600K) has bottomed out since 2010 and even start to recover now, be very careful on the high end properties since they may not have fully corrected yet.
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The housing crisis, which first devastated borrowers who purchased lower-cost homes with subprime loans, has caught up with people whose wealth helped them hang onto their houses longer.
Throughout affluent communities in the Bay Area, million-dollar-and-up homes are increasingly being lost to foreclosure, or sold as a last resort for far less than their mortgages.More than 1,500 Bay Area homes with mortgages of $1 million or more were scheduled for auction last year, more than double the number in 2008, according to ForeclosureRadar, a foreclosure tracking service.
Santa Clara County had more than 400 homes valued at $1 million or more scheduled for auction in 2011, the most of six Bay Area counties.
Contra Costa County, which led the region in lower-end foreclosures, is now one of the harder hit on the high end, with about 300 homes valued at $1 million or more scheduled for auction in 2011. Even the exclusive country-club community of Blackhawk is not immune.
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