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Realtor Notes on Imperial Avenue in Monta Vista, Cupertino
2007-08-31 10:38:00 The Imperial Avenue townhome complex is a 56-unit development in the Monta Vista district of Cupertino . Originally built to be relatively inexpensive, with square footage to fit a growing family, these townhomes are still some of the most financially accessible homes in Monta Vista. ... More About: Notes , Realtor
Mountain View Housing Market Update - August 2007
2007-08-29 12:39:00 Higher interest rates for jumbo mortgages is a story for another day, but it does color what I’m about to write. In July, Mountain View experienced a 14% jump in the median for single-family homes from 2006 to 2007. There was also the fact that the percent of ... More About: Market , Housing , Update
New Format for Market Updates
2007-08-29 12:35:00 My previous market updates have focused on analysis of year-over-year statistics, particularly with respect to medians around Silicon Valley cities. The numbers are useful, but what I really want to provide my clients with is an intuition of how far that money goes and what the snapshot of today’s market looks like. With that goal in ... More About: Market , Updates , Format
Realtor Notes on Santana Row Lofts, Flats and Villas
2007-08-26 07:44:00 Santana Row is a mixed-use development that brings the urban lifestyle many people expect from big cities, with shops, restaurants and bars within walking distance, into Silicon Valley. There are 219 homes there, across three buildings: The Villa Cornet, The DeForest Building, and The ... More About: Flats , Notes , Realtor , Santana Row , Santana
Sunnyvale Releases Resident Satisfaction Survey
2007-08-26 03:49:00 The City of Sunnyvale released its 2007 Resident Satisfaction Survey , which highlighted that 93% of respondents felt that Sunnyvale was a good or excellent place to live. 84% thought the same of their neighborhood. This chart was taken directly from the PDF document which Sunnyvale provides from the National Research Center. I thought it ...
How to Successfully Complete Your Home Purchase
2007-08-25 02:25:00 Congratulations, you're in contract. The sellers have accepted your offer. You've gained a lot of insight into yourself, looked at homes one-by-one after a thorough MLS search, did background research on your favorites, made a few offers, and negotiated a deal that has protections built-in for you. This was their first home in Silicon Valley, but ... More About: Home Buyers , Home , Complete , Purchase , Hase
Minor Update to MLS Search
2007-08-24 10:32:00 Those of you using Internet Explorer 6 might have had some trouble with our MLS search page. The way pages are generated has now been updated, so if it didn't work for you before, please give it another shot. More realtor notes and consumer advocacy articles to come. [ed. I will delete this post next ... More About: Search , Update , Minor
Realtor Notes on Montebello Cupertino
2007-08-22 03:46:00 The Montebello Cupertino , located at the intersection of Stevens Creek Blvd. and De Anza Blvd., is home to over 200 homes ranging from one-bedroom condominium flats to 1700 square foot, 3 bedroom townhomes. This is a popular complex in Cupertino and, during a traditionally busy summer, seven units (one currently pending) at the Montebello have been ... More About: Notes , Realtor , Bello
New Cupertino Whole Foods Opens Tomorrow
2007-08-22 03:33:00 20830 to 20955. Whole Foods in Cupertino moves across the street tomorrow to its new, larger location. Whole Foods corporate calls it "Northern California's flagship store." People who have been going to the old location at 20830 Stevens Creek Blvd. may have also been greeted by a friendly local student who was handing out flyers redirecting ... More About: Tomorrow , Pert
Realtor Notes on the Expressions of Sunnyvale
2007-08-20 06:14:00 The Express ions of Sunnyvale is a gated townhome and condominium community just south of Central Expressway and east of Mary Ave, neighboring the Gardens of Sunnyvale complex at La Mesa Terrace and the Belmont Terrace townhomes. Two townhomes recently went pending at the Expressions of Sunnyvale, one on Asilomar Terrace (closing August 31) and one ... More About: Notes , Realtor
Realtor Notes on Neighborhoods Around Silicon Valley
2007-08-20 05:47:00 Ever wanted to sneak a peek into your Realtor 's personal notes for the neighborhood you live in or the one you're considering? I've opened up a new section that's going to be home to my opinions on various neighborhoods around Silicon Valley : what's good, what's not, their potential and threats to that potential. Each notes section ... More About: Notes , Neighborhoods
Considering One HOA Versus Another
2007-08-17 02:22:00 There it was. The orange house. The bright orange house. The newly-painted bright orange house. The neighbors stood aghast as they watched each stroke cover more of the nondescript color, the one nobody could remember now. That lost color may as well have been green because they couldn't imagine themselves living next to the Great ... More About: Home Buyers , Versus , Cons , Consider , Erin
The Impact and Reality of Homeowners Associations
2007-08-10 10:09:00 When is a $1,000,000 home less expensive than a $900,000 home? When the $900,000 home comes with a $533 per month HOA fee. Here's why: if you bought a one million dollar home in Silicon Valley using a 30-year fixed-rate principal and interest mortgage with a 7% interest rate and 20% down payment, your monthly payment ... More About: Reality , Home Buyers , Associations , Owners , Homeowners
What Do People Think About Before Looking for a Home?
2007-07-31 11:03:00 Not prejudging. Some things are pretty easy to quantify: number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, price range, and cities. Then when you plug those parameters into a home search, you can usually find a pretty long laundry list of homes that meet the criteria you put in. What's difficult (actually, impossible) to tell the real ... More About: People , Home Buyers , Home , Look , Fore
Cupertino Housing Market Update - July 2007
2007-07-26 11:27:00 It's not world famous for it's homes or real estate. Folks outside Silicon Valley know it as the birthplace of the iPhone. Apple, Symantec, and a very large portion of HP — to name a few — call it home. To locals, Cupertino is synonymous with the school system. The Cupertino Union School District has ... More About: Market , Housing , Update , July 2007
Silicon Valley Housing Market Update - July 2007
2007-07-23 09:05:00 It's all about proximity. This month, I took a look at the semi-annual statistics aggregated for the first-half of the year so that my clients can get a good look at the overall trends, as opposed to the bumps in the road. The story isn't about the median prices, which are charted further down in this ... More About: Market , Housing , Update , Silicon Valley , July 2007
Tools for Protecting Yourself During a Home Purchase
2007-07-19 11:13:00 It's not the tone of their voices or any perceptible shifting in their seats. My clients are pretty good at what they do and there's a certain confidence that comes from that. But no matter how many times you've done it before, it's still a big step. There's the unknown: you may never meet the ... More About: Tools , Home Buyers , Home , Purchase , Prot
San Francisco Bay Area MLS Search Improved
2007-07-15 13:28:00 1SiliconValley.com has provided map-based searching for homes and real estate across Silicon Valley and the Bay Area for several months now. We've recently added several new features that I hope will make your home search more convenient. Based on your feedback, we've added a details page for each search result that shows all the available ... More About: San Francisco , Home Buyers , Search , San Francisco Bay Area
How Buyers Can Walk in the Shoes of Sellers and Listing Agents
2007-07-09 12:14:00 [As promised, this is the follow up to Making an Offer: Behind the Scenes. That article has been updated with a link to this post and this message will be deleted in a few days.] It was Starbucks today. Sometimes it's a living room. Other times it's their favorite restaurant for lunch. Real estate, especially with ... More About: Shoes , Home Buyers , Agents , Listing , Sellers
How Buyers Can Walk in the Shoes of Sellers and Listing Agents
2007-07-09 12:14:00 [As promised, this is the follow up to Making an Offer: Behind the Scenes. That article has been updated with a link to this post and this message will be deleted in a few days.] It was Starbucks today. Sometimes it's a living room. Other times it's their favorite restaurant for lunch. Real estate, especially with ... More About: Shoes , Home Buyers , Agents , Listing , Sellers
Making an Offer on a Home: Behind the Scenes
2007-07-06 12:32:00 "I believe we'll want to work with your clients," she said as I stood up from the conference table and extended her a firm handshake. Those were the code words I was looking for and I knew my Silicon Valley client would be a very happy woman in a few hours, especially since she paid ... More About: Home Buyers , Home , Behind The Scenes , Maki , Scenes
Making an Offer on a Home: Behind the Scenes
2007-07-06 12:32:00 "I believe we'll want to work with your clients," she said as I stood up from the conference table and extended her a firm handshake. Those were the code words I was looking for and I knew my Silicon Valley client would be a very happy woman in a few hours, especially since she paid ... More About: Home Buyers , Home , Behind The Scenes , Maki , Scenes
Saratoga Housing Market Update - June 2007
2007-06-29 10:14:00 It was as if they were made of gold. You know a school district cares when they track every registration form that leaves their office for planning and budgeting purposes. The result? Saratoga Unified School District's API score of 952 out of 1000 is second in Silicon Valley only to Los Altos, which edges out ... More About: Market , June , Housing , Update
Saratoga Housing Market Update - June 2007
2007-06-29 10:14:00 It was as if they were made of gold. You know a school district cares when they track every registration form that leaves their office for planning and budgeting purposes. The result? Saratoga Unified School District's API score of 952 out of 1000 is second in Silicon Valley only to Los Altos, which edges out ... More About: Market , June , Housing , Update
The Thought Process Behind Making an Offer on a Home
2007-06-23 12:16:00 The words will sound like they make perfect sense: "If we make an offer, we should make it to win." Even though his eyes were scanning the path from the patio, through the living room into the kitchen, his expression was motionless as he finished his sentence. It was coming towards the day when offers — ... More About: Home Buyers , Home , Thought , Process , Maki
The Thought Process Behind Making an Offer on a Home
2007-06-23 12:16:00 The words will sound like they make perfect sense: "If we make an offer, we should make it to win." Even though his eyes were scanning the path from the patio, through the living room into the kitchen, his expression was motionless as he finished his sentence. It was coming towards the day when offers — ... More About: Home Buyers , Home , Thought , Process , Maki
Silicon Valley Home Buyers Book Update - June 2007
2007-06-17 10:30:00 I've updated my book on buying a home in Silicon Valley with what the Silicon Valley real estate market cycle has looked like over the last decade and how to prepare your money when buying a home. Thanks to everyone who's written kudos for the book on its download page and the initial announcement. Since it's ... More About: Home Buyers , June , Home , Book , Update
Silicon Valley Home Buyers Book Update - June 2007
2007-06-17 10:30:00 I've updated my book on buying a home in Silicon Valley with what the Silicon Valley real estate market cycle has looked like over the last decade and how to prepare your money when buying a home. Thanks to everyone who's written kudos for the book on its download page and the initial announcement. Since it's ... More About: Home Buyers , June , Home , Book , Update
Reducing Your Stress When Searching for a Home
2007-06-13 10:40:00 It's out there. And if you're going to spend more than a quarter of what you make each month on it, we're going to find the right one for you. But it doesn't end there. The process of buying a home in Silicon Valley is considered by a lot of folks to be stressful — ... More About: Home Buyers , Home , Stress , Searching , Redu
Reducing Your Stress When Searching for a Home
More articles from this author:2007-06-13 10:40:00 It's out there. And if you're going to spend more than a quarter of what you make each month on it, we're going to find the right one for you. But it doesn't end there. The process of buying a home in Silicon Valley is considered by a lot of folks to be stressful — ... More About: Home Buyers , Home , Stress , Searching , Redu 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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