Bay Area, Real Estate, House Price and Mortgage Blog

Biltmore Apartments Cupertino 95014

2013-03-18T21:42:00.000-07:00

Biltmore Apartments Cupertino are located not far away from not existing Cupertino downtown and within walking distance shopping malls, library, and restaurants. The apartment features a swimming pool, Jacuzzi, sauna, gym and a common room for parties. The most attractive part of this apartment complex is the high ranking Cupertino schools. The kids of the renters attend Eaton Elementary,

Milpitas condos for sale

2013-02-18T22:48:00.000-08:00

From the newsline: Last month, Niha Singh, a 27-year-old Silicon Valley computer engineer, and her husband tried to buy one of 12 units in a new William Lyon Homes Coyote Creek townhouse development under construction in Milpitas. Even though they'd car-camped outside the developer's office, they ended up on a waiting list. "When we got there on Friday, there was already a line," she said. "

Most expensive home Bay Area

2012-06-10T20:38:00.000-07:00

Russian entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner owns a 25,000-square foot, 11 acre Silicon Valley mansion, in Los Altos Hills, California. Yuri Milner bought this single-family home for $100 million, but it would be mistake to think that this home is most expensive property in in San Francisco Bay Area. The real most expensive property located not far away in Santa Clara. The seats

Mountain View Homes For Sale

2012-05-27T13:58:00.000-07:00

I drove through Mountain View today, and noticed a googol for sale signs. I have an impression that homeowners were holding back from selling waiting for Facebook IPO. Facebook engineers are buying up property in the Bay Area, adding to the demand from tech workers at nearby companies like Google and LinkedIn. But on the other side, it could be related

San Jose Condo Open House

2012-04-20T21:48:00.000-07:00

San Jose’s three new high-rise condominiums – Axis,The 88 and City Heights – invite you to a springtime glimpse into downtown condominium living at the Downtown Condo Crawl Open House. Enjoy model home and penthouse view tours at all three hi-rises, ongoing pedicab rides connecting each destination courtesy of Eco City Cycles, raffle prizes and more. Experience it yourself on Saturday, April

San Francisco is the most unaffordable city for renters

2012-03-15T22:09:00.000-07:00

National Low Income Housing Coalition released a report of most unaffordable rental markets: San Francisco, California: $1,905 Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut: $1,769 Honolulu, Hawaii: $1,767 Nassau-Suffolk, New York: $1,682 Orange County, California: $1,652 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California: $1,623 Westchester County, New York: $1,580 Bergen-Passaic, New

San Jose rents rose 11.7 percent over past year

2012-01-29T20:38:00.001-08:00

Want to live in Silicon Valley? Be prepared to pay. Average San Jose apartment rents climbed to $1,783 by the end of 2011. Looking ahead, real estate agents expect higher occupancy rate, and rents are expected to rise again.

New Homes in Santa Clara County

2011-12-11T18:12:00.000-08:00

SummerHill Homes commences construction of new homes in Santa Clara on Winchester Boulevard at Forest Avenue, the site formerly know as BAREC. Bay Area Research and Extension Center (BAREC), a 17-acre research farm was run by the University of California since 1921 until 2003. The project consists of 110 single family homes, 163 affordable senior apartments units and a one-acre park. It is just

Cheapest Home in Cupertino School district

2011-11-22T12:08:00.000-08:00

Every home buyer and real estate agent knows that Bay Area home prices have dropped, inventory is way up, and sellers are willing to deal. In the same time different people have different notions of what cheap means. Today the cheapest home in Cupertino school district costs $600,000, has 2 bedrooms and 1 bath on 814 square feet, and build in 1952. It sounds like the potential home buyer will

Mountain View Whisman School District attendance area

2011-11-16T23:01:00.000-08:00

Mountain View Whisman School District attendance boundaries could change for the 2012-13 school year. The changes are being considered in the interest of controlling school size, encouraging students to walk to school and to reduce the demand for busing in the school district. The three areas under consideration are as follows: The homes bounded by Latham Street, Escuela Avenue, El Camino Real

Crittenden Middle School Mountain View

2011-11-07T17:05:00.000-08:00

Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson has a view insights on the state of school education back then. Steve Jobs attended Crittenden Middle School in Mountain View before leaving for Cupertino. The sixth grade was in a different school, Crittenden Middle. It was only eight blocks from Monta Loma Elementary, but in many ways it was a world apart, located in a neighborhood filled with ethnic

Eichler Homes Mountain View

2011-11-06T19:36:00.000-08:00

I continue to read Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson and found a few more revelations about Mountain View home where Steve Jobes lived for eight years. The Jobses’ house and the others in their neighborhood were built by the real estate developer Joseph Eichler, whose company spawned more than eleven thousand homes in various California subdivisions between 1950 and 1974. Inspired by

Steve Jobs home in Mountain View

2011-11-05T17:26:00.000-07:00

I started to read the new Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs biography. Here are just some of the interesting San Francisco Bay Area area real estate insights I’ve already discovered: The finance company where Paul worked as a repoman, CIT, had transferred him down to its Palo Alto office, but he could not afford to live there, so they landed in a subdivision in Mountain View, a less expensive town just

Cupertino School District API Report

2011-09-08T20:33:00.000-07:00

Every year at this time, you see why home buyer love Cupertino so much: It's the schools. California released the Academic Performance Index (API) scores of each district and school in California on August 31th, which is commonly used by real estate agents to show the home buyers best places to buy a home in California. The required tests measure a school’s composite academic achievement based on

Moving out of Bay Area

2011-07-02T23:18:00.000-07:00

More residents remained San Francisco Bay Area according to a report published in San Jose Mercury News. Real estate agents already see evidence of a housing crunch in a handful of communities such as Palo Alto, Cupertino and Fremont, which are known for their schools and are near many of the fastest-growing companies. Apparently one of the reason of the low number of homes for sale in Bay Area

Foreigners wants San Francisco houses

2011-06-18T17:23:00.000-07:00

Trulia amazing interactive graphic shows where demand for San Francisco housing is coming from. San Francisco is more popular for Indians and Chinese real estate investors, but Russian, Frenchmen, Italians and Japanese home buyers are also actively looking for the homes in San Francisco Bay Area.

Shanghai Vancouver Las Vegas

2011-05-31T06:12:00.000-07:00

What is common between Shanghai, Vancouver and Las Vegas? It seems the recent housing bubble on property in China has led many to head west to Vancouver. The are 64,000,000 empty residential units in China: According to Chinese Spreading Wealth Make Vancouver Homes Pricier Than NYC : China, where home prices rose 28 percent in Beijing and 26 percent in Shanghai last year, has taken steps

SF Bay Area second mortgage

2011-05-29T12:49:00.000-07:00

Many San Francisco Bay Area homeowners found themselves in their personal financial crises after taking out a second mortgage for properly only to have the bottom fall out under them in a few years. The home is not necessarily lost and bankruptcy might be the way to eliminate that second mortgage according to Bankrupt Bay Area homeowners shed second mortgages in San Jose Mercury News

Bay Area Average Rent goes up

2011-05-27T21:00:00.000-07:00

Real estate agents predict rents will continue rising. The rents in San Jose increase almost 7% in 2010. There are still many factors discouraging even the most savvy homebuyers from purchasing a home, but a new class of renters is expected to bring a bright spot to the troubled U.S. real estate market. Prices for rental apartments are expected to rise nationally – by approximately 4.5% in 2011

Palo Alto million dollar home

2011-05-15T19:27:00.000-07:00

Million dollar homes sales in Santa Clara county rose sharply when first-time home buyer Mark Zuckerberg purchased 7 million dollar home in Palo Alto. He previously rented a four-bedroom home in Palo Alto's College Terrace neighborhood near Stanford University. No one knows why Mark Zuckerberg decided to buy the first home, but perhaps he noticed that the owner of just 2 percent stake in Facebook

Enclave at Waverly Park Mountain View

2011-05-13T22:40:00.000-07:00

Enclave at Waverly Park is new 53 new single family homes development in Mountain View adjacent to Los Altos by SummerHill Homes developer located on the old Pumpkin Patch farm property. The new homes are approximately from 2,500 to 2,950 sq.ft, have 4 - 6 bedrooms with 2.5 - 4 baths on 8,000 sq.ft. lot and priced from $1,600,000. HOA fee at Enclave at Waverly Park will be around $60 per month

Top Elementary Schools California

2011-05-06T10:17:00.000-07:00

Yesterday California Department of Education released school ranking based on various test known as STAR and last spring high school exit exams. This numbers added 1-to-10 ranking for each school in California and bases on 2010 API scores release last September. Bay Area schools continue to dominate the rankings of public schools in state, landing 13 of California's top 15 elementary schools,

Real estate market glossary

2011-05-02T07:20:00.000-07:00

I notices the interesting glossary for today's rough-and-tumble real estate market in Mercury News. Buy and bail: An underwater homeowner pays cash for a similar model for much less than he'd paid for his house, then once it closes, walks away from the original house. Underwater: The state of homeowners whose houses are worth less than they owe on them. Cash for keys: What lenders, or real

Three Sixty Rental Residences Prices

2011-05-01T19:46:00.000-07:00

The bankruptcy of 360 Residences condo developer in downtown San Jose gave the average Bay Area renter the opportunity to rent a brand new homes at the heart of Silicon Valley. Recently published rental prices for 360 Residences on 360 South Market St, San Jose may seem steep, but sounds affordable considering brand new rental community, pets policies, apartment amenities, amazing views and

360 residences apartments for rent

2011-04-27T11:27:00.000-07:00

Finally there are good new news for Bay Area residents who want to live in 360 Residences apartment building in the downtown San Jose, but prefer to pay rent instead of paying mortgage, HOA fees and property taxes. Kennedy Wilson, international real estate investment and services company, announced the opening 360 Residences condo complex as rental apartment. 360 Residences was originally built