Silicon Valley Real Estate Guide

Come to Pinot Days Grand Festival public tasting at Fort Mason in San Francisco.  The tasting is this Sunday (June 29th, 2008) from 1:00 - 5:00.  The cost is $65.00 and tickets can be purchased at the door.  I recommend arriving about 1/2 hour before the doors open to reduce the amount of time waiting in line.
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Market update.  It could be due to a great location with Los Altos Schools or its over-sized lot, but the home located at 1735 Cherrytree Lane in Mountain View (and listed at $1,248,000. by Elaine Klemm of Alain Pinel Realtors) went into contract yesterday with 5 offers.  

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This week’s Friday Broker tour of new listings for the Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View market was relatively light.  There were 32 homes on tour in Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Altos hills.  23 of these were new listings, 9 were re-tours or homes re-listed with new brokerage houses.  Below is what […]

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Beginning Friday June 20th, downtown Los Altos will be transformed into a large outdoor movie theater.  The theater’s location is smack dab in the middle of Main Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets.  The street closes at 6:00 pm.  The movies begin at dusk (approximately 8:45 pm) and last approximately 2 hours. 
My family has seen quite a few movies and […]

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Today marks the 7th week of the Los Altos Farmer’s Market’s 2008 season.  Every Thursday evening from 4:00 - 8:00 pm the vendors at the farmer’s market provide fresh food, produce, flowers, plants, and craft items to the community of Los Altos.  The farmer’s market, which is sponsored by LAVA (the Los Altos Village Association) is held on State Street […]

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It’s Wednesday June 11th, the last day of school for kids in the Los Altos School District.  My kids officially will be on summer break by noon today.  As we look forward to a busy summer of play, work and a couple of short vacations, I leave you with a video and a story about […]

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Los Altos real estate sales numbers are in for the month of May and by all accounts, properties are moving well.  41 properties closed escrow in May ranging from a 3 bedroom 2 bath home which sold for $1,225,000. to a large newly built 6 bedroom 4+ bath home, which sold for $3,999,950.  
May sales have consistently […]

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Yesterday’s Mountain View broker tour had 22 homes.  Of these, 18 were new listings and 4 were re-toured properties.   
I really liked the home located at 2707 Saint Giles Lane in Mountain View’s Waverly Park Neighborhood.  It’s a 4 bedroom 2.5 bath home listed at $1,350,000.  Sharon Philips of Campi Properties is the listing agent.  It’s sure to […]

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Yesterday’s Los Altos/Los Altos Hills broker tour was small with just 9 homes.  Of these, only three were actual new listings.  Five properties were re-tours (ie. some had price reductions etc.) and one property was re-listed with a different brokerage. 
The house I thought most interesting was the property located at 1464 Fairway Drive in the Country Club area of […]

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Having a listing is a good thing is Los Altos because they usually sell rather quickly (average days on the market hovers around 25 days) and they usually sell for a lot of money (average sales price hovers around $2,000,000.).  This type of real estate activity makes for an exciting month or so for the seller […]

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