Napa County's Real Estate Market:
Despite it's close proximity to the East Bay and San Francisco, Napa County combines gourmet dining and wine country living with small town peace and charm, including a variety of cultural and hometown events for the entire family. Given it’s proximity to San Francisco, Napa Real Estate is relatively affordable, with comfortable property for sale starting from about $400,000.
Napa County is an important part of California's Wine Country region. Real estate for sale in Napa includes thousands of acres of vineyards along with commercial property and hundreds of homes for sale.
The Napa River traverses the city on its journey to the San Pablo Bay. The city has conducted a variety of waterfront development along the Napa River including certain fill operations governed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers regulations. The Napa River Flood Project has been in progress since the late 1990s with the goal of mitigating the risk of flooding along a 6-mile stretch of the River and 1 mile of Napa Creek.
Napa had become the primary business and economic center for the Napa Valley by the dawn of the 20th century. As agricultural and wine interests developed north of the city limits much of the light industry, banking, commercial and retail activity in the county evolved within the city of Napa and in earlier times along the Napa River through the historic downtown. Napa Glove Factory was established in 1903 and was the largest plant of its kind west of Chicago. In 1915 Edwin Pridham and Peter L. Jensen invented the moving-coil loudspeaker in their Napa workshop while working on an improvement for the telephone receiver. Pridham and Jensen went on to found the Magnavox Company in 1917
Even today the bulk of the county population lives in the City of Napa. The active economic development program has continued to support the wine and agricultural activities of the Valley to this day.
Some of Napa County's cities include: Napa, St. Helena, Yountville, Oakville, Rutherford and Calistoga.
