Silicon Valley Real Estate Info

The Multiple Listing Service area 209 consists of housing tracts with names like Cuesta Park, Varsity Park, St. Francis Acres, and Gest Ranch.  Lots average about 6500 sf and homes average about 1400 sf.   Gest Ranch lots and houses are about 1/2 larger.  See neighborhood map at bottom of post.
Depending on neighborhood, elementary school aged children would attend schools [...]

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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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Deer Hollow Farm, originally uploaded by David Blockhus.
One of my favorite places to run by!

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Area 209 (as it is defined by our local multiple listing service) is a series of smaller neighborhoods located west of El Camino Real in the ciity Mountain View that run off of Miramonte Avenue and Cuesta Drive (see map below).  

According to MLS Listings Inc. data, there currently are 11 active listings for sale in the Mountain View [...]

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Satake Estates is one of Summerhill Homes newest developments.  Located in Mountain View on the old Satake Nursery site (at the end of Marilyn Drive), Satake Estates is a higher end development of 30 single family homes.Currently, prices range from $1,537,000 to over $2,013,000 plus options.  Home sizes range from approximately 2238 square feet up to approximately 3358 square feet [...]

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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 according:
 ”to median [...]

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I recently had an inquiry on this Blog’s chat box asking about pricing in the Waverly Park neighborhood of Mountain View.  I thought I would give an expanded answer here.  Below is a map for the neighborhoods in question (MLS area 208, Waverly Park and the Martens-Carmelita neighborhoods).

View MLS Area 208, Waverly Park Mountain View CA in a [...]

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Last fall I took a short bus tour of the Mountain View Whisman School District.  The tour was led by the district’s Superintendent, Dr. Maurice Ghysels. Below is a short video where Dr. Ghysels discusses Huff Elementary School.

FYI, Huff Elementary school’s Growth API score for 2008 was 936.

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Last fall I took a short bus tour of the Mountain View Whisman School District.  The tour was led by the district’s Superintendent, Dr. Maurice Ghysels. Below is a short video where Dr. Ghysels discusses Bubb elementary school.

FYI, Bubb Elementary’s 2008 API score was 866

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There were 27 single family homes on today’s Mountain View/Los Altos/Los Altos Hills Broker tour.  Thirteen are new listings and fourteen are properties that have been on the market and were being re-toured.  Most of the re-toured properties have had price reductions.  My favorite three properties are as follows (in no particular order):
2173 Sierra Ventura Drive, Los [...]

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