Silicon Valley has a bifurcated market, and has for many months now. Some areas are hot sellers markets. In other areas, you can't seem to give away homes. What about Los Gatos?The market is cooler than is seasonally normal. Last week I did some serious numbers-crunching at my Live in Los Gatos
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12/15/2007
The Los Gatos market for condominiums, townhomes, and similar clusters of homes is experiencing a seasonal slowdown - and then some. Recently I put a detailed post about this subset of the housing market on my Live in Los Gatos blog. If you'd like to see the hard numbers and get some historical p
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12/15/2007
The holiday season is well known as a time when suicide rates go up. When seemingly everyone is happy, and you're not, it just makes the gap between where you are and where you want to be feel even more immense.This can happen to us in our businesses, too. With a challenging market and the financ
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12/14/2007
No one ever likes to change brokerages or offices. But depending on the way you run your real estate practice, it can be more or less difficult to make that change should it become necessary. (Why would you want to change? Possibly new management, a buyout or takeover, new practices that you don'
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12/13/2007
Home selling is a big undertaking, particularly in a buyer's market when you can anticipate buyers expecting your house to be in absolutely top condition. It can seem overwhelming. In Silicon Valley, the market varies from neighborhood to neighborhood, but overall, buyers will expect your condo,
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12/03/2007
Today was a bit chilly so perhaps you didn't get out to the annual Los Gatos Holiday Parade. Have no fear - there are photos you can enjoy at my Live In Los Gatos Blog! (I wasn't there either but have attended many of them over the years. My husband, Jim Handy, is a volunteer parks commissioner
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12/01/2007
Real Estate 101: which is more cost effective - keeping your current clients or finding new ones? Most of us learned quickly that it's easiest and cheapest (and more fun) to keep your current clients than it is to constantly have a high turnover in your client base. For managers of real estate o
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12/01/2007
