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Buying a Home in Antioch

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Buying a Home in Antioch

Antioch spans older riverside streets and newer hillside subdivisions, so two houses a few miles apart can be completely different sales. If you are buying here, that is the thing to understand before you start touring, because it decides which houses are actually worth your Saturday.

Antioch has a downtown by the river that is older than most of what surrounds it. The market is wide enough that price per square foot swings hard across a few miles.

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How Antioch actually prices

This is the East County city where citywide averages do the most damage, and where automated estimates miss worst.

Here that means being specific about which part of town, because the differences within this city are larger than the differences between some towns.

Buyers looking here almost always look at Oakley, Pittsburg and Brentwood as well. Antioch gets weighed against Oakley and Pittsburg, usually on entry price and commute.

What matters when you are buying a home

What the app will not tell you is why one house sat for sixty days while a nearly identical one went in a weekend with five offers. There is always a reason. Sometimes it is the floor plan, sometimes it is what backs onto the yard, and sometimes the sellers priced off a number they needed rather than one the market supports.

Look at the specific block, not the city. Antioch rewards that more than anywhere else out here.

Our job is telling you which is which before you fall for one, and telling you plainly when a house is a bad idea. Especially one you love.

The mistake to avoid in Antioch

The one we see most often here is pricing off a citywide figure, which in a city this varied describes almost no actual house.

Finding listings is the easy part now. Everyone has the same apps and within a week you can recite the inventory in your range from memory.

Who is buying in Antioch

First-time buyers and investors, drawn by the entry price Antioch still offers. You are looking at the San Joaquin River, the historic downtown, and the newer south side up the hill.

Talk to us about Antioch

The Mashore Group works across the Bay Area from an office at 44 Sycamore Ave in Brentwood. Krista Mashore has sold more than 2,300 homes here over more than two decades. Across the team there are 201 published reviews averaging 4.9 stars.

If you want to talk about buying a home in Antioch call (925) 325-4663. A first conversation costs nothing and carries no pitch, and if the honest answer is that you should wait, we will say so.

We work every part of this city, which matters more here than anywhere else out east, and that is worth more in Antioch than a general opinion about the county.

Frequently Asked Questions

Should I get pre-approved first?

Before you make an offer, yes, and in a competitive situation it decides whether you are considered at all. Before we talk, no.

What should I look at closely in Antioch?

This is the East County city where citywide averages do the most damage, and where automated estimates miss worst.

Will you tell me not to buy a house?

Yes. That is most of the job, and we would rather lose a sale than watch you buy something with a problem you could not see from the driveway.

What goes wrong most often in Antioch?

The most common mistake is pricing off a citywide figure, which in a city this varied describes almost no actual house. We work every part of this city, which matters more here than anywhere else out east.

Antioch

What buying a home looks like in Antioch

The oldest and largest of the East County cities, right on the San Joaquin.

Antioch covers a lot of ground and a lot of price points, from the older streets near the river to the newer subdivisions up the hill. Two houses a few miles apart can be completely different sales.

That spread is exactly why a generic online estimate tends to be furthest off here.

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