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Selling a home in the west valley? What are the odds your home might sell?

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Real Estate Agent with Christie's International Real Estate Sereno 01153805

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 in your immediate zip code or subdivision.

Book on home selling in Silicon Valley, by Mary Pope-Handy and Ken Deshaies

Today on my Live in Los Gatos blog, I posted about home selling in Los Gatos.  What are the odds that your Los Gatos home will sell? In the west valley generally (the four areas mentioned above), it runs between about an 8% and 15% chance that a home will sell. The exact chance varies by location, condition, school district, price point, etc. For instance, the very expensive luxury home market (over $3 million or so) is much worse than homes priced between one and two million dollars.

If you are thinking of selling your home in Los Gatos or anywhere nearby, please visit my blog and read today's post: How Hard is it to Sell a Los Gatos Home Now?

 

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Mary Pope-Handy
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Grace Keng
Keller Williams Realty Cupertino - Cupertino, CA
CRS, CDPE (408) 799-8887

Hi, Mary,

How are you? How did you place the icons of facebook..at your activerain profile.

I don't know how to do it, would you mind email me let me learn something new.

Grace Keng, Silicon Valley Realtor,

Feb 10, 2009 03:07 PM
Mary Pope-Handy
Christie's International Real Estate Sereno - Los Gatos, CA
CRS, CIPS, ABR, SRES, Silicon Valley

Hi Grace!  Nice to hear from you.

I actually created those little buttons using Picnik (www.Picnik.com) and basically swiping, cutting and pasting the little icons into the boxes. (Shhh don't tell!)

I did a post here on AR somewhere about making little graphic images using picnik. It's really pretty easy. 

You can see one I'm really proud of on the Los Gatos Observer (it runs through 2-14 only) at www.LosGatosObserver.com. See the left side - a little ad for a home. I used a closeup of a corner of the kitchen island for the image and was really happy with the way it turned out.

Hope to meet you soon - I emailed you something a little bit ago....!

Mary

Feb 10, 2009 04:49 PM