Contra Costa CountyReal Estate Markets

eBART arrived in 2018 and changed what the commute costs

Cherry orchards turned into subdivisions, still picking in June

Eleven thousand people at the foot of Mount Diablo

The largest city in the county, with the widest range of prices in it

The San Ramon Valley, its school district and its jumbo prices

Two BART stations and Berkeley one street away

Planned neighborhoods stepping down to San Pablo Bay

Wooded lots off Highway 24 with a BART stop downtown

The county seat on the strait, with a refinery and a marina

No freeway, no BART station, and a college in the middle

Where East County pricing reaches its floor, out toward the Delta

The first stop past the Caldecott Tunnel, under the oaks

A small I-80 town with older bones and lower numbers

Delta frontage and two rail stops on the eastern shore

A city that built its downtown from scratch on the 680

From Point Richmond out to the flats, one city with many markets

A whole city packed into two and a half square miles

Bishop Ranch built the city, and the district keeps it expensive

Broadway Plaza, Northgate and Rossmoor, three markets in one city