This document summarizes Bay Area real estate trends from 1968 to 2040. It provides data on median home prices in different Bay Area counties from 2006 to 2014, showing sharp increases in San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin, and Alameda counties. Mortgage rates are shown to have declined significantly from the 1970s through mid-2000s. Chinese investment in U.S. real estate is also discussed, with California receiving about a quarter of Chinese deals from 2000-present, totaling $43 billion.