Luxury Rebound: Healdsburg’s $2 Million Home Sales Surge
As Q1 2025 data reveals, Healdsburg’s real estate market is defying conventional wisdom with a 150% surge in luxury home sales while Sonoma County’s high-end market continues to decline. These counterintuitive trends are reshaping our understanding of the local market in ways that might surprise even longtime residents.
Washington, Jefferson construction projects opening this week
This week, the Cloverdale Unified School District is opening some of its major construction projects. The projects include a new two-story classroom building and play structure at Jefferson Elementary and a new multi-purpose room at Washington School. According to Superintendent Betha MacClain, the buildings are set to open on Jan. 5 with a more formal celebration recognizing the completion of the two projects held on Feb. 16.
A year in community events
If more evidence is needed to prove how full Healdsburg’s community events and celebration calendar is, just look back at how many postponed gatherings and special events had to be cancelled or rescheduled in the days after the Oct. 23, 2019 Kincade Fire.
Our unnamed legacy
The oldest people in Sonoma County can remember the days of Prohibition (1920-1933) and we still have a cluster of World War II survivors who can tell stories about food and gas rationing and local coastal blackouts to hide from Japanese submarines. Our most elder Baby Boomers can recall when the county’s population almost doubled between 1950 and 1970, from 103,405 to 204,885. (Today’s population is 486,000.)
Kayakers rescued by Henry-1
On Saturday, Feb. 22, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s helicopter Henry-1 was dispatched to an ocean rescue in the vicinity of Doran Beach. REDCOM dispatchers reported a kayak had flipped over approximately 100 feet off shore. Additionally, it was reported that two people were now in the water.
Sheriff fires deputy over David Glen Ward’s death
The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office has released the body cam video of the incident that led to the death of David Glen Ward, 52, who died on Nov. 27 after a violent interaction with local Sheriff’s Office deputies.
