Silicon Valley Real Estate Info

Many real estate agents and their buyers use Google Street Views to preview real estate prior to visiting it.  For you “off street” enthusiasts, Google has mounted a tricycle with it’s Street View camera and is looking for off road sites worthy of showcasing.  So far they have collected imagery of Legoland in Southern California, San [...]

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Mountain View and Cupertino were recently named by Forbes magazine as two of the top towns in the U.S. in which to live well.  Teaming with Forbes,  ZoomProspector.com, a San Francisco-based consulting firm that specializes in corporate relocation ranked Mountain View fourth and Cupertino fifth.  The study looked at “towns” with populations under 100,000 residents and ranked them [...]

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According to our local Multiple Listing Service, there currently are four single family homes in Cupertino for sale that are listed as “short sale” properties.  These homes are: 18840 Newsom Avenue, Cupertino 18900 Newsom Avenue, Cupertino 10210 Johnson Avenue, Cupertino 10187 Byrne Avenue, Cupertino

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I just received a request for instructions on how to get to the Black Mountain Hiking trail head on my plugoo instant messaging.  From Interstate 280 in Santa Clara County, exit #16 El Monte/Moody Road and drive west on Moody Road. Go straight through the stoplight at Foothill College, and at a stop sign at about [...]

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As anyone who knows me can attest, I am a die-hard Cal fan. On Saturday I took the kids to the women’s Pac-Ten basketball tournament at San Jose’s HP Pavilion to watch our beloved women Bears take on the Arizona State Sun Devils.  In conjunction with the basketball tournament, the Bay Area Women’s Sports Initiative [...]

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Bargains, bargains, bargains, get your bargains here!  Unfortunately for buyers of homes in the south peninsula cities of Los Altos, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and Cupertino, the bargains are few and far between.  The Bay area was entirely excluded from a recent Forbes article, Best Cities For Bargain House Hunters.  Does this mean that there aren’t any good [...]

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On a cool and cloudy day, a large patriotic crowd watched as the Cupertino Veterans Memorial was dedicated.  In attendance were many local dignitaries, active and retired military and friends.   The Secretary of the Navy, Donald Winter, was one of the many guest speakers.   The centerpiece of the memorial is a life sized statue of two soldiers on their knees scouting the [...]

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