Silicon Valley Real Estate Guide

In real estate, the size of a home matters!  When representing Los Altos home buyers, verifying a property’s size (in square footage) can be troublesome.  Usually, the size of the home and lot (in square feet) is auto-populated from city/county records into the multiple listing service (MLS) information.  Most of this information is correct but […]

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Friday is a big day for the Los Altos Real Estate scene.  It’s Broker tour day, the day that agents go out and preview the new listings/homes for our clients.  
Of the 23 single family home listings on tour in Mountain View and Los Altos, 15 homes were new listings and 8 were either being […]

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Below is the photo of a Los Altos home for sale that I found listed on our local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) this evening.  The 4 bedroom 2 bath home, listed by Pam Blackman of Intero Real Estate Services, is located at 722 Brentwood Place.  Brentwood Place is located in a nice neighborhood behind the Rancho Shopping […]

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It always seems that with a softening in our local real estate market, there is an increase in real estate related lawsuits.  When the real estate market is good (and appreciating), buyers are happy.  But when it softens, buyers are looking for someone to bail them out.  According to four prominant Silicon Valley real estate attorneys, we are seeing […]

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Sunday was a great day to come to downtown Los Altos.  Not only could you attend the community picnic, but you could see up close dozens of the finest Corvettes around at the 2008 Corvette Spectacular.  They were all beautiful automobiles, but I liked the lines of the mid 60’s vehicles.  Take a look below and see […]

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In results released last week, the Los Altos Elementary School District’s Academic Performance Index (API) increased 5 points from 954 to 959.   API Scores are used to determine the academic performance and improvement of a school and/or school district.  Below is the break down of the Los Altos school’s API scores:
Elementary School         2007 Base        2008 Growth    Improvement
Almond Elementary                          968                          964                                […]

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The Oak Park Condominium complex, located just west of El Camino Real at 938 Clark Avenue in Mountain View, consists of 62 units spread out over 4+ acres of Oak studded grounds.  Built in 1978, the complex consist of eleven 2+story buildings, a nice swimming pool and clubhouse. 
There are thirtytwo 2-bedroom 1-bath units which are located in buildings […]

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Today’s Sunnyvale Real estate Broker’s tour was short on supply, but there were some pretty interesting properties.
817 Shenandoah Drive - was a nicely updated (kitchen and baths) Brown and Kauffman (B & K) home.   The front two bedrooms were bumped out under the roof line to add additional usable space.  Note: this eliminates the front porch.  There is […]

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Los Altos plays host to three major events this weekend:
“Rock Back the Clock“ is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary.  Come to the Rancho Shopping Center this Friday (9/5/08) from 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.  Local merchants will provide food and refreshments and Rens Boorsma of SoundTrax (A classmate of mine at Awalt High) will be playing dance music.  Note: Rens has […]

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Promotional flyers have been used by agents in marketing homes in Los Altos and the surrounding cities for many years.  With technology getting better and more sophisticated, one would think that the number of agents who use promotional flyers targeted at real estate agents as part of their marketing efforts would be zero (or close […]

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