CALIFORNIA: Home To 8 Of The 10 Hottest Up-And-Coming Neighborhoods In America

Listings: -54 percent

Sales volume: +44 percent

Price: +11 percent

Comment: Eagle Rock is home to Occidental College, a private school that has weathered the state's education budget crunch and seen steadily increasing enrollment.

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Listings: -29 percent

Sales volume: +17 percent

Price: +80 percent

Comment: The Mission boasts San Francisco's most popular and longest-running arthouse movie theatre, The Roxie.

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Listings: -64 percent

Sales volume: +31 percent

Price: +17 percent

Comment: Glassell Park is home to local artists like Justin Stadel, whose amusing, giant cutouts of famous Hollywood cowboys have been featured on numerous occasions in the LATimes. 

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Listings: -60 percent

Sales volume: +9 percent

Price: +32 percent

Comment: The Mercury News recently praised Willow Glen's new, $20-million town center, which replaced a liquor store and parking lot, as "thoughtful development."

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Listings: -71 percent

Sales volume: +13 percent

Price: +20 percent

Comment: Livermore hosts one of the largest Hindu populations in the Bay Area. 

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Listings: -63 percent

Sales volume: +17 percent

Price: +29 percent

Comment: Bikram Yoga's world headquarters is located in Faircrest Heights. 

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Listings: -69 percent

Sales volume: +48 percent

Price: +21 percent

Comment: The neighborhood inaugurated a beer festival in August.

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Listings: -48 percent

Sales volume: +73 percent

Price: +31 percent

Comment: The LATimes recently named York Boulevard "a hub of hip." The New York Times also seems to have been on top of the "Highland-Park-is-the-next-Williamsburg" angle as early as 2009.

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