social media: Facebook Housing Boom?
- 05/21/12 08:49 AM
While the rest of the county buzzed Friday about Facebook’s first day as a public company, real estate agent Brian Chancellor saw the effect months earlier. Chancellor put a client’s house on the market in February for roughly $1.2 million — a bit underpriced, he said. The home in Palo Alto, Calif., sits adjacent to Menlo Park, the home of the social-media darling. Twenty days and 38 offers later, the house sold for $1.65 million. “It’s not uncommon that even when somebody goes well over the asking price … they may not get the home,” Chancellor said. “There are people who (0 comments)