Mary Pope-Handy's Silicon Valley Real Estate Commentary

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Real Estate Agent - Christie's International Real Estate Sereno - 01153805
A discussion on the real estate market and practice, particularly in the greater Silicon Valley area, particularly within San Jose, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Monte Sereno, Campbell, and adjacent areas.

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2009 

Salespeople are notorious for "creating a sense of urgency" so that buyers buy now and sellers sell now. When used appropriately (when there really is a reason to get moving!), this is not a bad thing and can help make the consumer more realistic and help the consumer to get what he or she wants ...
02/25/2009
- UPDATE -  (a few hours later) The link to the page with that press release is now blank. Oddly, the page still exists, but the press release has been removed.I did not get any correspondence from them about this directly, but I'm happy to see that they removedthe offensive endorsement. This mor...
02/14/2009
The local paper has been running stories about the real estate market in Santa Clara County and the good news is that many of the bank owned, foreclosed homes are getting bought up. Throughout the Silicon Valley area, about one home in four is selling. Real estate is local, though. . .much more l...
02/05/2009
Every day it seems that our large, local newspaper, The San Jose Mercury News, runs a story on the real estate market. Unfortunately, the news never seems to be good. Today's feature was on home sales in the million plus price range and how the number of those sales has been declining substantial...
02/04/2009
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