santa clara county: Gilroy Garlic Festival Weekend - 07/26/14 07:40 AM
The Gilroy Garlic Festival is happening now, the weekend of July 25-27, 2014.  If you are in Santa Clara County or anywhere in Silicon Valley, it is a worthwhile trip to "south county" for this amazing festival.  It's a little warmer in Gilroy  than in most of the San Francisco Bay Area, so pack extra water, hats with wide brims, light clothing and comfy walking shoes or better sandles.  
 
Never been?  Gilroy rightly claims to be "The Garlic Capital of the World".  And this time of year, you actually can smell it before you see it.   The Garlic … (2 comments)

santa clara county: The condo and townhouse market in Santa Clara County, California - 07/02/13 02:16 PM
Condominiums and townhouses in Santa Clara County have enjoyed rapid appreciation and almost perfectly steady improvement in the market in the last 18 months or so.  Today we'll take a snapshot view of it with a few graphs.  First, let's consider the average Days on Market (DOM) and the sale price to list price ratio for condos and townhouses in Santa Clara County.

The chart above shows some calming down in the Santa Clara County condo market.
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http://sanjoserealestatelosgatoshomes.com/how-is-the-santa-clara-county-condo-market/
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santa clara county: Silicon Valley Home Buyers: Discover Any Property's "School of Attendance" and API Scores with SchoolAndHousing.com - 02/07/12 01:55 PM
Home buyers in Silicon Valley often shop not just for a nice home in a nice area, but for schools as well.  Sometimes buyer clients tell me the API scores that they want to enjoy with the local schools.  Until recently, this was very challenging to research.Now, however, some very bright minds put together a website that enables consumers to search for homes by API scores (academic performance index, scale of 1 - 1000 with larger numbers being better and 800 being the county's target for success): SchoolAndHousing.com. Brilliant!  Adding to that, it's free and very intuitive!  Not only that, consumers … (0 comments)

santa clara county: Selling a home in the west valley? What are the odds your home might sell? - 02/05/09 05:10 AM
The local paper has been running stories about the real estate market in Santa Clara County and the good news is that many of the bank owned, foreclosed homes are getting bought up. Throughout the Silicon Valley area, about one home in four is selling. Real estate is local, though. . .much more local that countywide. What is happening in Berryessa or Blossom Valley is interesting, and may have an impact on the local economy and you. But if you live in Los Gatos, Saratoga, Monte Sereno or Almaden Valley, what's happening elsewhere may have little to do with home sales … (2 comments)