North Bay Business Journal

Chicago-based investment adviser Morningstar has increased its fair value estimates for BioMarin Pharmaceutical stock. …

BioCision, a developer of products used to eliminate variability in lab procedures based in Larkspur, recently announced a collaboration with ATCC. …

College of Marin held its annual scholarship awards ceremony, awarding a total of $44,470 to 78 students. …

Marin County’s luxury home market has been churning strongly since the worst of the housing crisis, with the number of sales up 56 percent in April versus the same period in 2012. …

As median home prices climb sharply in the North Bay, a recent report by real estate data tracker RealtyTrac shows that the Santa Rosa-Petaluma market is one of the most profitable nationwide for “flipping” homes.

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As median home prices climb sharply in the North Bay, a recent report by real estate data tracker RealtyTrac shows that the Santa Rosa-Petaluma market is one of the most profitable nationwide for “flipping” homes.

New California legislation known as the “homeowner bill of rights” helped the rate of new foreclosures to plunge in the North Bay and beyond in January, while home prices and sales in general continued a steady upward climb, according to reports released today by Irvine-based foreclosure tracker RealtyTrac and San Diego-based real estate data service DataQuick.

North Bay home prices continued to climb upwards in 2012, part of an overall 32 percent year-over-year boost for housing prices around the Bay Area and the fastest median price increase in more than 25 years, according to a monthly real estate market report. Combined with a continued decrease in foreclosure rates, as indicated by a separate monthly report by Irvine-based foreclosure tracker RealtyTrac, the trend points towards gradual but steady recovery for the region’s housing market.

Home sales and median prices in October continued to rise in the North Bay and the rest of the Bay Area, according to a report released today.