Silicon Valley Real Estate Info

The Mountain View Whisman School district receives the core of its financing based on the average daily attendance of it’s students.  In short, it is a Revenue Limit funded district. 
Revenue limit income is a combination of local property taxes and state money.  As property taxes increase, they are offset by a reduction in state money.  A district [...]

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Today my son and I went to downtown Santa Cruz to volunteer as course Marshall’s at the Amgen Tour of California bike race.  This is my third year at the race and my first year as a volunteer. 
We arrived at 8:30 a.m. for check in and received our lovely Cal Trans looking volunteer shirts and were at our assigned intersection [...]

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The Multiple Listing Service is the most reliable source of local real estate market information.  The following information was take from our local MLS provider (ProMLSlistings.com) and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.  
There are currently are 91 single family homes for sale in Mountain View.  Of these, 14 are under contract.  Therefore, 77 homes don’t have buyers.  [...]

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Joe Brown, a 28-year real estate veteran and President of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage’s Silicon Valley, Monterey Bay and East Bay regions has started a real estate blog called Weekly Market Watch.   It’s good to see Coldwell Banker’s leadership adopting some of the technologies that have proven effective for their agents as well as in other industries. 
Joe [...]

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The economy is soft and money is tight yet there continues to be a lot of construction occurring in Los Altos and it’s surrounding communities. On my street alone, there are five homes under construction. Check out the short video below and see the demolition of one of my neighbor’s home. 
It probably took a year [...]

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Los Altos single family home sales were down in January 2009.  However, given the state of home financing and consumer confidence, I expected the numbers to be even worse.  Below is an 11 year history of Los Altos single family homes that have sold in the month of January.    
A quick calculation shows that the eleven year average for home [...]

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In part two of the Magical Mystery (bus) Tour of the Mountain View Whisman School District (MVWSD),  Dr. Maurice Ghysels, the Superintendent of the Mountain View Whisman School District, shares his thoughts about the district’s core values.  It’s these core values of (1) academic excellence, (2) a strong collaborative community and (3) a broad world view that make the MVWSD so successful!
Note: I [...]

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I was fortunate to attend the Magical Mystery (bus) Tour of the Mountain View Whisman School District.  Below is one (of many) video clips taken during a morning tour of the district.  Our tour guide was Dr. Maurice Ghysels, the Superintendent of the Mountain View Whisman School District.  In this video, he shares some of his thoughts about Crittenden Middle [...]

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Last weekend, my wife and I went out to dinner, alone, sans kids…kinda like a date.  We ended up at Bella Vita, an Italian restaurant located at 376 First Street in downtown Los Altos.  The menu looked good, the decor was inviting and they had a reasonable corkage fee. 
I gave our bottle of wine to our server to open and we ordered our [...]

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