Mary Pope-Handy's Silicon Valley Real Estate Commentary

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A discussion on the real estate market and practice, particularly in the greater area around San Jose, CA, which is at the so. end of the San Francisco Bay Area, especially. Los Gatos, Saratoga, Monte Sereno, Campbell, Almaden Valley, Cambrian Park.
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Santa Clara is a higly desirable city within Santa Clara County, where the largest city is San Jose and the area is generally referred to as "Silicon Valley". The city of Santa Clara is home to high tech and to history. The north side of Santa Clara is full of biotech and high tech companies as ...
10/10/2008
Did you read about this?"Days after federal officials agreed to an $85 billion bailout of American International Group, the insurance firm spent more than $440,000 for a corporate retreat" The article is found at The Smoking Gun, and you can read about it here:http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...
10/08/2008
Our MLS provider, MLSListings.com, has not yet given us the statistics for September's closed sales in Silicon Valley, so I've done a little of the data work myself. Below, please see a graph displaying the "months of inventory" or "absorption rate" for Saratoga, California. The National Associat...
10/04/2008
Sometimes we hear so much bad news about the real estate market that we are convinced that the end of the world is just around the corner. But is that the case? In parts of Silicon Valley, the real estate market is improving, and in other areas it's flat or worsening. Los Gatos was one of the las...
10/03/2008
The stats aren't out yet from MLSListings.com, our MLS provider for the Silicon Valley Real Estate Market, so I did a little number crunching of my own to see how things are looking.Cambrian Park, a district of San Jose bordering Los Gatos, Campbell, Willow Glen and Almaden Valley, is a good baro...
10/03/2008
Belwood of Los Gatos is a friendly, active neighborhood that sits on the far eastern edge of the Los Gatos town boundaries. The neighborhood runs from Harwood Road to Belgatos Road and Blossom Hill Road to Belridge. Nearby, and often thought of also belonging to Belwood, are the Belgatos and Surm...
10/03/2008
Welcome to Silicon Valley! Please enjoy these images of Los Gatos, Saratoga, Campbell, Santa Clara, Palo Alto and many areas of San Jose such as Almaden Valley, Cambrian Park, and Willow Glen. If you'd like to learn more about life in Silicon Valley, please visit Valley of Hearts Delight.com, Sil...
10/03/2008
Recently I was reading a local, online publication in which someone quoted Trulia's numbers of distressed properties in Los Gatos and tied them in to a percentage of the homes for sale here that appeared so high as to be surreal. How could that be? I am on the MLS every day, and the Los Gatos rea...
10/02/2008
The Los Gatos real estate market is soft - it remains a buyers market for most areas and price ranges. Agents and sellers will tell you that it's harder to sell a home now.  Let's look at the market data, though. It can be analyzed by price point, school district, zip code, square footage, or any...
09/29/2008
The Median List price for the Almaden Valley district of San Jose (zip code 95120) has been declining overall. Does this mean that homes are declining in value? Or does it mean that less expensive homes are being offered for sale? Information from sold data indicates that by and large, homes are ...
09/29/2008
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A discussion on the real estate market and practice, particularly in Silicon Valley, CA.