In case more evidence was needed that the Bay Area offers a real estate market insanely favorable to sellers (and just plain insane for buyers), Trulia announced Wednesday that “the SF, SJ, and Oakland metro areas [are] the fastest moving markets in the nation.”

With historic low inventory continuing across the nation, buyers aren’t waiting to jump on available homes, which means a trend of fewer days on the market (DOM). But this trend is most dramatic in California—the Bay Area most dramatic of all.  Trulia reports that “among the 100 largest U.S. metros, 8 of the 10 fastest-moving housing markets are in California, and homes are selling much faster there than in the rest of the country.”

Just looking at the last two months exemplifies this finding. Out of all the homes listed in February, 2015, only  30% of homes for sale in the San Francisco Bay Area are still on the market this April, vs. 70% of homes in Long Island and Albany, NY metros.  The Bay also commands the top 3 highest median asking prices among the 10 US metros enjoying the lowest DOMs.

Impressive, but local Realtor Alex Clark says the San Francisco seller doesn’t even have to wait a week these days. He offers 62 Buena Vista Terrace as example. “We accepted offers on Monday, we closed yesterday… that’s a three day close,” he wrote on The Front Steps blog. Incidentally, the tenancy in common listed at $1,295,000 and sold for $1,500,000, cash, no contingencies.

Or, this one on Seal Rock in the Outer Richmond, which sold in one day: “We put this on MLS Monday for $659,000, received two cash (pre-emptive) offers on Tuesday, and we closed for $735,000 today… not bad for an Outer Richmond 853 square foot, one bedroom TIC.” Well, not bad for the seller. Buyers, on the other hand, have to do some hoop jumping. And quickly.

Clark also wrote about representing a buyer on a home at 624 46^{th Ave}: they made an offer and went into contract within hours of the home hitting the MLS. The gallery above allows you to peek in each of these homes (since if you blinked, you would have missed them on the market).

Bay Area buyers, beware. Despite the fact that buying a home is perhaps one of the biggest financial decisions you’ll ever make, you don’t have much time to think. You need more than lots of money to spend: you need the stomach to spend it immediately.