Silicon Valley Real Estate Info

According to MLS Listings Inc. data there currently are 95 single family homes for sale in Los Altos.  55  homes are active listings, the remaining 37 homes are under contract.  Only 8 homes priced above 2 million are under contract.  The most expensive property under contract has a list price of just slightly above four million, but it has been sale pending for over 4 months.  [...]

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There has been a lot of discussion recently in Los Altos about it’s sign ordinance, part of which covers the placement of real estate open house signs.  An article  in the Los Altos Town Crier highlights some of the issues as does this editorial.  There is even an editorial alleging that the biggest abuser of Los Altos’ sign [...]

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A recent New York Times article entitled “Biggest Defaulters on Mortgages Are the Rich” caught my attention because it implied that Los Altos residents were walking away from their high value mortgages en mass.  While I can appreciate the author’s desire to write about an increase in high end mortgage default levels (which there is), Los Altos is a poor example.  [...]

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This weekend is the 31st Annual Los Altos Art and Wine Festival.  If you’ve never been to this event, it is one of the largest and best run in Northern California.  The event hours are from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm on both days.  The 2010 Los Altos Art and Wine Festival includes the work of hundreds of artists [...]

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According to MLS Listings Inc. data there currently are 137 single family homes for sale in Los Altos.  84 homes are active and available to purchase. The remaining 53 homes are under contract.  The higher end of the market is still tough.  Five homes priced above 2.5 million are under contract with the highest coming in at almost 4.2 million.  Only four homes closed [...]

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Contrary to public opinion, there are not that many distressed properties exchanging hands in Los Altos and/or Los Altos Hills.  According to our local Multiple Listing Service, three short sale  properties closed escrow in Los Altos Hills and three in Los Altos within the past year.  Currently there are 12 short sale properties on the market and [...]

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Giant Oak Tree Falls in Los Altos Originally uploaded by David Blockhus I was taking my dog on a walk this morning and came upon this beautiful old Oak tree that fell over in the recent rains. The tree came down in the 900 block of Springer Road in Los Altos. Fortunately, it appears that [...]

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According to MLS Listings Inc. data there currently are 117 single family homes for sale in Los Altos.  66 homes are active and available to purchase. The remaining 51 homes are under contract. The higher end of the market saw an increase in activity in March.  Three single family homes priced above three million sold, including [...]

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Proponents of Measure A will kick off their campaign tomorrow morning at 8:30 at the Garden House in Shoup Park (400 University Avenue – see map).  The Los Altos High School Jazz band will perform and there will be speakers including Julia Rosenberg, chair of BEST (Building Education for Students Together) and Barry Groves, the [...]

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According to MLS Listings Inc. data there currently are 121 single family homes for sale in Los Altos.  82 homes are active and available to purchase.  The remaining 39 homes are under contract.  Seventeen single family homes closed escrow in the month of February.  This is slightly above the 12 year average of sixteen homes that closed escrow in [...]

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