tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246873652022-11-07T16:45:16.511-08:00The home prices in Silicon Valley are predicted to rise again in this year, just as we experienced last year. Is San Francisco Bay Area's real estate market a bubble ready to burst? Read our San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley Real Estate trends, observations, predictions and rants. Realtorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15510362655081426251noreply@blogger.comBlogger236125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24687365.post-25883870730040987592018-07-02T22:19:00.001-07:002018-07-02T22:19:22.798-07:00

SANTA CLARA All-City Picnic and Fireworks Extravaganza: Noon, Central Park, 909 Kiely Blvd. Carnival games, live entertainment, food, free public swimming and more. Fireworks at 9:30 p.m. www.santaclaraca.gov California’s Great America Fireworks Show: 9:45 p.m. July 4. Fireworks set to patriotic music. Current and past military will be honored with free admission with valid ID, plus $23.99

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British Columbia is trying to tax Vancouver's crazy expensive housing market into submission – and homeowners think it's great. "If I got to lose 200 or 300 grand to keep the kids and the future of this place, so be it." Condominium towers in Vancouver, British Columbia, where housing costs are up by about 60 percent over the past three years. About a fifth of local homeowners in a survey said

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The California high speed rail will create a significant amount of eminent domain in Palo Alto. For example the railroad reconfiguration at Churchill Avenue and Alma Street could cause 36 properties to be seized through eminent domain. At $5 million per residential parcel, taking residential property in Palo Alto is the question. The acquisitions would add $200 million to the project cost before

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San Mateo's Concar Shopping Center near near the Hayward Park Caltrain Station will be transformed from an outdated shopping center into housing and retail space - Passage at San Mateo. Mixed-use development will have 935 residences and 35,000 square feet of retail space. The site is the current location of Trader Joe’s, Peninsula Ballet Theatre, 7-Eleven, Shane Co., Ross Dress for Less, TJ Maxx

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According to the local media: Families in Fremont have scored a huge legal victory after they sued their condo complex because it wouldn’t let their kids play outside. For years, kids were not allowed to play outside in the gated complex located on Sequim Common, home to dozens of families. The homeowners association, Silvertree Mohave HOA, had set up the rules, but now an $800,000 settlement is

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I used to enjoy seeing the Santa Cruz Mountains on the horizon when moving around Mountain View. The views reminded me of the city founders who saw those same mountains and named the city “Mountain View". Now those views are disappearing behind these tall, looming rectangular structures. We live in a Mediterranean climate and buildings from that area would be a welcome change here. More curves,

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A huge 39-acre parcel in Palo Alto that includes the Fry’s Electronics store could be redeveloped soon when the Sobrato’s lease expires at the end of 2019, and Palo Alto is beginning to discuss how the tract could possibly be redeveloped in the future. The plan could call for multifamily condos, a new school and additional neighborhood services. Before Fry's is bulldozed into oblivion, be sure

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The Mill at Broadway in central Sacramento has begun offering mortgage loans with no down payments. The development that would have 800 to 1,000 homes occupies the former site of a lumber mill just south of Broadway near Interstate 5. No down payment? That sounds a lot like something that happened about a decade ago. The problem with "no down payment" mortgages is borrower has no skin in the game

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I always wondered how plausible it would be taking down a lot of the car dealerships and replacing them with dense housing, like on Stevens Creek Blvd in San Jose, Santa Clara. I guess traffic could get real bad though and where to take water, sewage and parking capacity to support it. 33 condos to replace Honda dealership on El Camino Real in Redwood City. The city kissing off a car dealership

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San Francisco Bay Area traffic congestion hits record for 4th straight year. The traffic is tied to the Bay Area’s booming economy and the high cost of housing which is forcing longer commutes. The out-of-state license plates are flooding Bay Area. This growth in tech won’t be slowing anytime soon and people will be still moving to the Bay Area.

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Being in the Bay Area is extremely hard if you're not successful. If you are successful, and you happen to like good creativity, urban streetscapes, cultural diversity, nightlife, proximity to nature, physical activity, recreation, and great weather. There isn't any huge difference between the Bay Area for the Pacific Northwest other than one being slightly less expensive. So it's not a huge

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High Tech is a blessing and a curse. The high incomes and lack of housing have made the San Francisco Bay Area an unaffordable. The housing and traffic can be diffused in Silicon Valley if the high tech companies provide telecommuting, where a worker can do job from anywhere. A disruption in this area is much needed! Silicon Valley – the world’s leading innovation region – is seeing many warning

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The Centerra apartments in downtown San Jose recently published the advertisement in Mercury News or may be it was just an article, but I still got an impression it was the advertisement. Anyway according to the article occupancy rates are high — approaching 95 percent at Centerra, where most tenants are in their mid-20s to early 40s and work in tech. They pay between $2,500 and $3,780 monthly

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Declining Bay Area home sales in February of 2017 made it the most sluggish month in nine years, but prices jumped sharply as buyers bid on a shrinking supply of single-family homes. Prices soared 11 percent higher across the nine-county of San Francisco Bay Area compared with the same month of 2016, reaching a median price of $675,000 — the largest such increase in more than a year. In sunny

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It is important to realize how buying a condo or town home San Francisco Bay Area can impact your life. By law, they have Homeowners Associations, which are another layer of quasi-government regulations. They are set up like dictatorships see "Davis Stirling" Civil Code in California, run by the oligarchy Boards of Directors (your neighbors, most likely without experience and no training for

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San Francisco Bay Area real estate is going to crash and burn hard. Nobody is ever really able to say how or why though, just that what goes up is supposed to come down. I'm gonna break down why it will happen and why it not happening yet. Prices are too high compared to average income in the region, so while there is "demand" in the sense of lots of people wanting to live here, there will be

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New Mountain View Whisman district school boundaries that's bound to affect property values and leave some people disappointed are coming soon. Last week, the school district released several proposed boundary maps that re-zone every school in the district, including Slater Elementary, which is expected to be opened at the start of the 2018-19 school year. I really hope that detailed safety

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Since Donald Trump was elected president last week, mortgage rates have jumped by half a percentage point and tech stocks have fallen. That could put a damper on the Bay Area real estate market if it persists. If Trump deports undocumented immigrants and builds a wall to keep out new ones, demand for apartments could drop, because most of them rent. Legal and illegal immigrants and their

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In September 2016, San Jose rents fell year over year by 3.4 percent from $2,814 in September 2015 to $2,718. During the same time period, San Francisco rents fell year over year by 3.3 percent from $3,336 to $3,226. And Oakland rents fell year over year by 0.6 percent from $2,392 to $2,378. Bay Area rents are falling, new survey shows

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Bay Area rental market is really hot right now—but not in the way you might think. Twitter - down 75% from Jan 2014 Go Pro - down 83% from Oct 2014 Fitbit - down 71% from Jul 2015 FireEye - down 86% from Feb 2014 Barracuda - down 48% from Apr 2015 Zynga - down 81% from Mar 2012 Rocket Fuel - down 96% from Jan 2014 Box - down 38% from Jan 2015 I am curious to see what will happen when this tech

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Plan to buy a new house in Bay Area? Do not Check the list of Bay Area’s 10 most congested freeways according to Metropolitan Transportation Commission. TOP 10 CONGESTED LOCATIONS 1. San Francisco/Bay Bridge, PM eastbound (from 101/80 to Treasure Island) 2. East Bay/Bay Bridge/S.F., all day westbound (from Highway 4 in Contra Costa County to 101 in San Francisco) 3. Interstates 680/280, AM

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The current Mountain View Whisman School District boundaries in Mountain View send too many students to Bubb and Huff Elementary, and don't include the new school expected to open at Slater Elementary. Until you move to Mountain View, it never dawned on you how important it was to have a home near or within the boundaries of a great school. You, by almost pure luck, could be fortunate to have

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On behalf of all of the homeowners at the Millennium Tower, San Francisco’s own 'leaning tower', a class action lawsuit was filed today. The lawsuit is aimed at the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and Millennium Partners since both sides have denied any responsibility for the structure’s now-infamous tilting and sinking. In part, the litigation reads: The Millennium Towers in San Francisco is

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Millennium Tower in San Francisco is sinking. The building has no visible damage, but cracks and some water intrusion have appeared in the underground garage. The fact that this building was not anchored in bed rock is impossible to believe. The phrase 'soil liquefaction' comes immediately to mind. Good luck to the unfortunate residents. The developers built an extra concrete heavy building on

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SF Bay Area home prices are starting to drop and they already dropping sharply. Very soon SF Bay Area will become a buyer’s market. In San Francisco Bay Area, where the average home price is $1.5 million and the average income is $175,000 per year. Given a person’s typical HOA fees, homeowner's insurance costs, credit card and car debts, the average homebuyer can afford just a $778,000 home,

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