We have long said that with Silicon Valley is moving north to San Francisco Lamorinda real estate prices will benefit as now it is a viable commute option for today's "new-tech" workforce. CNBC’s Upstart 100, its annual list of the 100 most promising start-ups around the world has 33 Bay Area companies on the list. Of these 33 companies, 22 are in San Francisco or the East Bay. With the recent rebound in the stock market many Bay Area companies have gone public and in turn, unlocked liquidity for potential homebuyers. San Mateo’s cloud-based data-warehousing startup Snowflake went public last week as the largest software IPO of record and is now valued at over $66 billion. All this recent success and minting of new millionaires certainly sends a positive signal for our 2021 Spring market.