The Valley of Hearts Delight website has been morphed into a blogsite with real estate information and insights on San Jose, Los Gatos, Saratoga, and Silicon Valley generally. The URL, www.ValleyOfHeartsDelight.com, will take you there!
What is included in this new blog for real estate consumers in Silicon Valley? Here's a quick list:
Silicon Valley (Santa Clara County)..(read more)
Recession is such a dirty word. But we may as well get used to it - the economy is scary right now, interest rates are rising along with the cost of gas and food, and the only thing that's nearing affordability right now is housing. That is, housing to purchase is becoming more affordable. Rents are rising.
What can you do to benefit during this crazy time?
The market is always changing..(read more)
Which part of the Santa Clara Valley
is seeing all of this foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity?
Depending on where you live in Santa Clara County, you may be seeing a whole lot of distressed properties on the market - or you may be seeing none at all. This is part of our current "bifurcated market" situation.
Generally, the more expensive areas of Silicon Valley..(read more)
The Silicon Valley Real Estate Market is really composed of many "micro markets". What is happening in Los Gatos is not the same thing as is happening in Morgan Hill or in Palo Alto.
And, in fact, what's happening in one part of Los Gatos is very different from what is happening in another, just as west San Jose is extremely different from south San Jose.
In Santa Clara County, we have seasonal fluctuations in the supply and demand of single family homes, condos and townhouses. Not surprisingly, most years there are correlations between these normal cycles and pricing. Usually, spring gives buyers more selection and sellers better pricing than other times in the year.
With sales slipping for about two and a half years..(read more)
If you are contemplating selling one home and buying another in the same general area, it may be that you need more space - or it may be that you simply want a home that's updated and you're not sure you want to experience, first-hand, the joys of remodeling.
Not too long ago, I stumbled upon a website to help folks work through this question:
www.RemodelOrMove.com. (read more)
We're through the holidays and slugging through some rainy January days here in Santa Clara County. The communities along the coastal foothills - Los Gatos, Saratoga, Los Altos, Almaden Valley, Monte Sereno, and Cupertino - got even more rainfall than downtown San Jose or places closer to the San Francisco Bay. This is not a bad time to sell a house, most years, but usually sellers want..(read more)
If you've been trying to sell your home in Los Gatos, Saratoga, Almaden Valley, Cambrian, or anywhere with good schools but haven't received an offer yet, don't dispair!
With our mild winters, you really can sell any time of year. And this one is a far cry from an El Nino winter.
Not only that, but in mid-December a lot of folks DO pull their homes off the market, and..(read more)
Preparing your home to sell should be done enough in advance of when you want to have your home go on the market that any unplanned repairs can be completed first so that you net the most money possible from the sale. It's hard to know how much time to allow for the unknown, but my suggestion is to provide yourself a month or two, if possible.
