Silicon Valley Real Estate Info

If you are looking for something to do this weekend that doesn’t involve 300+ pound men smacking each other around in order to move a ball over a goal line, I strongly recommend ZAP’s Zinfandel Festival.  

ZAP, Zinfandel Advocates and Producers, is having it’s annual Zinfandel wine festival. Tickets to all available events can be purchased here.  
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James Palmerson and Roslyn Marshall, the two local teens who ran away late Saturday evening, were found last night in Jame’s grandfather’s Honda Civic in a Lakewood Colorado shopping mall parking lot.   According to the San Jose Mercury News, “Shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday, an officer found the teenagers sleeping in the back seat, bundled up in [...]

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The Grandparents of James Palmerson (an 8th grader at Blach Intermediate School) and the Parents of Roslyn Marshall (age 13) need your help.  Sometime late Saturday evening or early Sunday morning, James and Roslyn ran away.  They haven’t been seen since.The scuttlebutt on the Blach campus is that the teens went to Las Vegas.  However, according to a San Jose [...]

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Image via WikipediaI’m not sure just what to think about this marketing campaign for new homes in Las Vegas, but I thought that it was interesting enough to pass on.
A client forwarded my this advertisement for an upcoming real estate ”Short Sale” being put on by D. R. Horton, America’s Builder.   D. R. Horton is trying to [...]

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The Multiple Listing Service is our most efficient means to sell a home and the most reliable source of local market information.  The following information was taken from our local MLS and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. 
According to our local MLS provider (ProMLSlistings.com), there currently are 65 single family homes for sale in Los Altos.  [...]

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Los Altos home sales were down in December.  According to MLS Listings, Inc. data, for the month of December 2008, 10 single family homes closed escrow in Los Altos.   This is a significant decline over previous year’s sales totals.
Below is a chart detailing December closed sales of single family homes in Los Altos for the last 10 [...]

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Image via WikipediaPalo Alto and Los Altos were in the top ten on Forbes list of America’s most educated small towns.  Palo Alto was ranked third and Los Altos was ranked fifth.  Saratoga  also made the list at number sixteen and Cupertino at number eighteen.
Forbes pulled data from the U.S. Census 2005-2007 American Community Survey.  This [...]

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Sue McAllister had an interesting article in today’s San Jose Mercury News.  The topic of the article focused on who is buying homes in our declining real estate market.  Her conclusion; first time home buyers and investors made up the majority of today’s home buyers. 
Below is an example detailing one investor’s reasoning for purchasing a single family home in [...]

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