Are house and condo inventory/sales/prices going up or down?
Read the June 2011 Real Estate Report (Santa Clara County) to find out.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
The Floorplans of the New DR Horton Townhomes in Sunnyvale
The Floorplans of the New DR Horton Townhomes in Sunnyvale are as follows:
Residence 1:
1338 sqft
3 bedrooms / 2.5 bathrooms
Priced from $509,990
2 stories
2 car garage
Residence 2:
1494 sqft
3 bedrooms / 3.5 bathrooms
Priced from $529,990
3 stories
2 car garage
Residence 3:
1691 sqft
3 bedrooms / 3.5 bathrooms
Priced from $559,990
3 stories
2 car garage
(408) 893-2410
Residence 1:
1338 sqft
3 bedrooms / 2.5 bathrooms
Priced from $509,990
2 stories
2 car garage
Residence 2:
1494 sqft
3 bedrooms / 3.5 bathrooms
Priced from $529,990
3 stories
2 car garage
Residence 3:
1691 sqft
3 bedrooms / 3.5 bathrooms
Priced from $559,990
3 stories
2 car garage
(408) 893-2410
Friday, May 27, 2011
S.T.A.R Testing for Cupertino Union and Fremont Union High School Districts: You can opt your child out according to one parent
S.T.A.R Testing for Cupertino Union and Fremont Union High School Districts: You can opt your child out according to one parent
Posted Under: Quality of Life in Cupertino, Schools in Cupertino, In My Neighborhood in Cupertino | April 10, 2011 8:13 AM | 120 views | No comments
Star Testing took place during the first 2 weeks right after spring break in the Cupertino Union School District (CUSD). Star Testing is administered for kids 2nd grade through 8 grade in CUSD and for high school kids in Fremont Union High School District (FUHSD).
According to one of the parents, you can opt out your child from Star Testing if that's what you want. I personally think you should let your child get accustomed to standardized testing while they are young, but if, for some reason you are against it, follow this parent's steps outlined below:
Write a handwritten letter to the principal at your School, making sure to include the following information:
1. State that you like to opt out your child for all or part of the star testing this school year.
2. Mention your child's name, grade, teacher and
3. Sign the letter.
You need a letter for each child being opted out
TURN IN THE LETTER TO THE OFFICE ASAP.
Posted Under: Quality of Life in Cupertino, Schools in Cupertino, In My Neighborhood in Cupertino | April 10, 2011 8:13 AM | 120 views | No comments
Star Testing took place during the first 2 weeks right after spring break in the Cupertino Union School District (CUSD). Star Testing is administered for kids 2nd grade through 8 grade in CUSD and for high school kids in Fremont Union High School District (FUHSD).
According to one of the parents, you can opt out your child from Star Testing if that's what you want. I personally think you should let your child get accustomed to standardized testing while they are young, but if, for some reason you are against it, follow this parent's steps outlined below:
Write a handwritten letter to the principal at your School, making sure to include the following information:
1. State that you like to opt out your child for all or part of the star testing this school year.
2. Mention your child's name, grade, teacher and
3. Sign the letter.
You need a letter for each child being opted out
TURN IN THE LETTER TO THE OFFICE ASAP.
Fremont condo complex has issue of low water pressure. Very little money to fix it.
Fremont condo complex has issue of low water pressure. Very little money to fix it.
Posted Under: Home Buying in Fremont, Remodel & Renovate in Fremont, In My Neighborhood in Fremont | May 3, 2011 4:07 PM | 71 views | No comments
Fremont condo complex has issue of low water pressure. Very little money to fix it.
Fixing all the units will take more than a year. The complex has only enough money budgeted to fix approximately 10 units at a time. Which units they do next depends on how bad they leak and how bad the water pressure is. You can say "Come look at my unit. My water pressure is the worst in this complex." However, you still aren't guaranteed to get your unit fixed next. The property manager does not have a set schedule to fix all the units. As they have enough funds, they are going throughout the complex and repiping batches of 10 or so units. Without the budget to correct the galvanized steel piping, repiping all the units could take years. The low water pressure will be an ongoing problem. To come up with the funds in one shot, the HOA could charge each unit a special assessment. However, they do not want to charge a SPECIAL assessment because many owners already have enough trouble paying the REGULAR assessment as it is.
Posted Under: Home Buying in Fremont, Remodel & Renovate in Fremont, In My Neighborhood in Fremont | May 3, 2011 4:07 PM | 71 views | No comments
Fremont condo complex has issue of low water pressure. Very little money to fix it.
Fixing all the units will take more than a year. The complex has only enough money budgeted to fix approximately 10 units at a time. Which units they do next depends on how bad they leak and how bad the water pressure is. You can say "Come look at my unit. My water pressure is the worst in this complex." However, you still aren't guaranteed to get your unit fixed next. The property manager does not have a set schedule to fix all the units. As they have enough funds, they are going throughout the complex and repiping batches of 10 or so units. Without the budget to correct the galvanized steel piping, repiping all the units could take years. The low water pressure will be an ongoing problem. To come up with the funds in one shot, the HOA could charge each unit a special assessment. However, they do not want to charge a SPECIAL assessment because many owners already have enough trouble paying the REGULAR assessment as it is.
High Tech Realtor: Trulia Layar Real Estate App makes Zillow look like the Stone Ages
High Tech Realtor: Trulia Layar Real Estate App makes Zillow look like the Stone Ages
Posted Under: Home Buying in California, Home Selling in California, Tech Tips in California | May 4, 2011 12:45 AM | 122 views | 1 comment
A new Real Estate App has been created by Trulia in conjunction with a company called "Layar", one of the pioneers in "augmented reality". The App uses GeoLocation, Computer Vision, and Context Aware coding on an open API to augment real live objects on your camera phone with relevant data.
With regular Trulia, you look at a map, then figure out which house in the real world corresponds to the house on the map.
With the Trulia Layar Real Estate App, you take your camera phone, aim it at a bunch of houses ...or slowly turn around in a circle while pointing your camera phone at the row of houses, and as your camera passes over each house, data bubbles with listing/sales informationpop over the image of each house.
Layar has an open API. It is free to develop and/or use Apps on Layar. (This is a familiar model for developing web service apps for the web.)
Robert Lei
REALTOR®, e-PRO®
Century 21
Direct: (408) 350-4726
Cell: (408) 893-2410
I'm never too busy for your Silicon Valley real estate referrals
Posted Under: Home Buying in California, Home Selling in California, Tech Tips in California | May 4, 2011 12:45 AM | 122 views | 1 comment
A new Real Estate App has been created by Trulia in conjunction with a company called "Layar", one of the pioneers in "augmented reality". The App uses GeoLocation, Computer Vision, and Context Aware coding on an open API to augment real live objects on your camera phone with relevant data.
With regular Trulia, you look at a map, then figure out which house in the real world corresponds to the house on the map.
With the Trulia Layar Real Estate App, you take your camera phone, aim it at a bunch of houses ...or slowly turn around in a circle while pointing your camera phone at the row of houses, and as your camera passes over each house, data bubbles with listing/sales informationpop over the image of each house.
Layar has an open API. It is free to develop and/or use Apps on Layar. (This is a familiar model for developing web service apps for the web.)
Robert Lei
REALTOR®, e-PRO®
Century 21
Direct: (408) 350-4726
Cell: (408) 893-2410
I'm never too busy for your Silicon Valley real estate referrals
Friday, July 30, 2010
Sunnyvale Condos under $300,000 ranked from youngest to oldest age
All the condos in Sunnyvale that have sold under $300,000 in the past year are either 1 bedroom or 2 bedrooms over 27 years old.
If you care about the age of your condo but can only spend up to $300,000, the order of preference from youngest to the oldest is:
4 year old 1 bedrooms on E El Camino Real:
631 E El Camino Real #202 & 633 E El Camino #201 : On E El Camino just E of RemingtonDr/NFairOaksAve.
621 E El Camino St #203 : Similar but closer to Remington/FairOaks than 631 #202 and 633 #201.
16 year old 1 bedroom on Arcadia Terrace:
605 Arcadia Terrace #105 : Many units on Arcadia Terrace are close to Fair Oaks Ave and Hwy 101. However this particular unit is at the corner that is farthest from both Fair Oaks and 101.
22 year old 1 bedroom at 929 E El Camino Real:
929 E El Camino Real #108C : On El Camino across the street from where E Fremont Ave merges/forks from E El Camino Real. Also just E of Wolfe, so suffers from noise from all 3 sources.
23-25 year old 1 bedrooms on San Conrado Terrace:
715 San Conrado Terrace #2 : Similar to 605 Arcadia Terrace except on the W side of N Fair Oaks. (Closer to Fair Oaks but farther from 101.)
708 San Conrado Terrace #3 : Just N of 715 San Conrado Terrace, so a little close to 101.
705 San Conrado Terrace #3 : Closer to Fair Oaks than 708 and 715.
27 year old 1 bedroom on Ironwood Terrace and 2 bedroom on W California Ave:
518 Ironwood Te #2 (Pebble Creek): N of Old San Francisco Rd between N Fair Oaks and N Wolfe
801 W California Av #A : California is a semi-busy street but is not as busy as most of the other streets on this list. The downside is the reduced car traffic is offset by its being the equivalent of a couple blocks away from Caltrain.
32 year old on 1001 E Evelyn & 33 year old on 999 @ Evelyn:
999 W Evelyn Terrace & 1001 E Evelyn Terrace : These units are similar in the amount of noise as W California Ave. However these units on Evelyn Terrace are closer to Evelyn Ave and closer to Caltrain than the W California units.
37 and 38 year old on N Fair Oaks Ave & Reed Ave:
755/771/787/791 N Fair Oaks Ave : Odd number addresses mean these units are on the W side of N Fair Oaks (Same side as San Conrado but closer to Fair Oaks. Opposite side of Fair Oaks from Arcadia Terrace.)
1083/1105/1107/1131/1139 Reed Av (#A-#D) : On Reed Ave, a busy street in its own right, just W of Lawrence, an extremely busy expressway.
If you care about the age of your condo but can only spend up to $300,000, the order of preference from youngest to the oldest is:
4 year old 1 bedrooms on E El Camino Real:
631 E El Camino Real #202 & 633 E El Camino #201 : On E El Camino just E of RemingtonDr/NFairOaksAve.
621 E El Camino St #203 : Similar but closer to Remington/FairOaks than 631 #202 and 633 #201.
16 year old 1 bedroom on Arcadia Terrace:
605 Arcadia Terrace #105 : Many units on Arcadia Terrace are close to Fair Oaks Ave and Hwy 101. However this particular unit is at the corner that is farthest from both Fair Oaks and 101.
22 year old 1 bedroom at 929 E El Camino Real:
929 E El Camino Real #108C : On El Camino across the street from where E Fremont Ave merges/forks from E El Camino Real. Also just E of Wolfe, so suffers from noise from all 3 sources.
23-25 year old 1 bedrooms on San Conrado Terrace:
715 San Conrado Terrace #2 : Similar to 605 Arcadia Terrace except on the W side of N Fair Oaks. (Closer to Fair Oaks but farther from 101.)
708 San Conrado Terrace #3 : Just N of 715 San Conrado Terrace, so a little close to 101.
705 San Conrado Terrace #3 : Closer to Fair Oaks than 708 and 715.
27 year old 1 bedroom on Ironwood Terrace and 2 bedroom on W California Ave:
518 Ironwood Te #2 (Pebble Creek): N of Old San Francisco Rd between N Fair Oaks and N Wolfe
801 W California Av #A : California is a semi-busy street but is not as busy as most of the other streets on this list. The downside is the reduced car traffic is offset by its being the equivalent of a couple blocks away from Caltrain.
32 year old on 1001 E Evelyn & 33 year old on 999 @ Evelyn:
999 W Evelyn Terrace & 1001 E Evelyn Terrace : These units are similar in the amount of noise as W California Ave. However these units on Evelyn Terrace are closer to Evelyn Ave and closer to Caltrain than the W California units.
37 and 38 year old on N Fair Oaks Ave & Reed Ave:
755/771/787/791 N Fair Oaks Ave : Odd number addresses mean these units are on the W side of N Fair Oaks (Same side as San Conrado but closer to Fair Oaks. Opposite side of Fair Oaks from Arcadia Terrace.)
1083/1105/1107/1131/1139 Reed Av (#A-#D) : On Reed Ave, a busy street in its own right, just W of Lawrence, an extremely busy expressway.
Sunnyvale condos under $300,000 ranked from quietest to noisiest locations
Almost all the condos in Sunnyvale that have sold under $300,000 in the past year are either on or near a busy street. If you are sensitive to noise but can only spend up to $300,000, the order of preference from least noisy to most noisy are:
518 Ironwood Te #2 (Pebble Creek): N of Old San Francisco Rd between N Fair Oaks and N Wolfe
801 W California Av #A : California is a semi-busy street but is not as busy as most of the other streets on this list. The downside is the reduced car traffic is offset by its being the equivalent of a couple blocks away from Caltrain.
999 W Evelyn Terrace & 1001 E Evelyn Terrace : These units are similar in the amount of noise as W California Ave. However these units on Evelyn Terrace are closer to Evelyn Ave and closer to Caltrain than the W California units.
605 Arcadia Terrace #105 : Many units on Arcadia Terrace are close to Fair Oaks Ave and Hwy 101. However this particular unit is at the corner that is farthest from both Fair Oaks and 101.
715 San Conrado Terrace #2 : Similar to 605 Arcadia Terrace except on the W side of N Fair Oaks. (Closer to Fair Oaks but farther from 101.)
708 San Conrado Terrace #3 : Just N of 715 San Conrado Terrace, so a little close to 101.
705 San Conrado Terrace #3 : Closer to Fair Oaks than 708 and 715.
755/771/787/791 N Fair Oaks Ave : Odd number addresses mean these units are on the W side of N Fair Oaks (Same side as San Conrado but closer to Fair Oaks. Opposite side of Fair Oaks from Arcadia Terrace.)
631 E El Camino Real #202 & 633 E El Camino #201 : On E El Camino just E of RemingtonDr/NFairOaksAve.
621 E El Camino St #203 : Similar but closer to Remington/FairOaks than 631 #202 and 633 #201.
929 E El Camino Real #108C : On El Camino across the street from where E Fremont Ave merges/forks from E El Camino Real. Also just E of Wolfe, so suffers from noise from all 3 sources.
1083/1105/1107/1131/1139 Reed Av (#A-#D) : On Reed Ave, a busy street in its own right, just W of Lawrence, an extremely busy expressway.
518 Ironwood Te #2 (Pebble Creek): N of Old San Francisco Rd between N Fair Oaks and N Wolfe
801 W California Av #A : California is a semi-busy street but is not as busy as most of the other streets on this list. The downside is the reduced car traffic is offset by its being the equivalent of a couple blocks away from Caltrain.
999 W Evelyn Terrace & 1001 E Evelyn Terrace : These units are similar in the amount of noise as W California Ave. However these units on Evelyn Terrace are closer to Evelyn Ave and closer to Caltrain than the W California units.
605 Arcadia Terrace #105 : Many units on Arcadia Terrace are close to Fair Oaks Ave and Hwy 101. However this particular unit is at the corner that is farthest from both Fair Oaks and 101.
715 San Conrado Terrace #2 : Similar to 605 Arcadia Terrace except on the W side of N Fair Oaks. (Closer to Fair Oaks but farther from 101.)
708 San Conrado Terrace #3 : Just N of 715 San Conrado Terrace, so a little close to 101.
705 San Conrado Terrace #3 : Closer to Fair Oaks than 708 and 715.
755/771/787/791 N Fair Oaks Ave : Odd number addresses mean these units are on the W side of N Fair Oaks (Same side as San Conrado but closer to Fair Oaks. Opposite side of Fair Oaks from Arcadia Terrace.)
631 E El Camino Real #202 & 633 E El Camino #201 : On E El Camino just E of RemingtonDr/NFairOaksAve.
621 E El Camino St #203 : Similar but closer to Remington/FairOaks than 631 #202 and 633 #201.
929 E El Camino Real #108C : On El Camino across the street from where E Fremont Ave merges/forks from E El Camino Real. Also just E of Wolfe, so suffers from noise from all 3 sources.
1083/1105/1107/1131/1139 Reed Av (#A-#D) : On Reed Ave, a busy street in its own right, just W of Lawrence, an extremely busy expressway.
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