Silicon Valley Real Estate

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Welcome to the Market Matters Advisory, your weekly guide to responding to the market.  Barron's The Endgame...

Even though new federal rules prohibit appraisers, realtors, and individual home sellers from tweaking home values higher, an article by Ken...

Mortgage Market Guide , for the week of Aug 25, 2008. Vol. 6, Issue 35 Last Week in Review  "The first thing a hurdler learns... is how...

Welcome to the Market Matters Advisory, your weekly guide to responding to the market.  San Francisco Chronicle Real estate chaos hits appra...

With widespread foreclosures and falling prices comes some of the best news of the summer--across CA home sales are rising for the third mon...

Sometimes, the perfect home for you isn't perfect for your pet. If you're looking for a town home or condo that allows cats and dogs...

For the week of Aug 18, 2008---Vol. 6. Issue 34 Last Week in Review "You can't put a limit on anything." Michael Phe...

Sue McAllister wrote a piece published in the Mercury News published a few days ago that talks about what those price reduced signs really m...

Until the new housing bill came along, couples selling their first homes weren't taxed on the initial $500,000 (singles escaped taxation...

An article by Jeffrey Cane on Portfolio.com pins the birthdate of the credit crunch on last August 9th, when a call from a French bank pull...

Even Bay Area homes have been tainted by the recent real estate market woes--but only some of them. There are still few areas in the nine-co...

Last Week in Review "PERSEVERANCE IS A GREAT ELEMENT OF SUCCESS." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Despite strong opposing forces in th...

Silicon Valley Land Surveying is the company I go to when I need engineers for subdivisions. These guys are great at what they do, and offer...

Welcome to the Market Matters Advisory, your weekly guide to responding to the market. CNN MONEY Time to lock in your mortgage rate Although...

Dear Friends and Family, The American Cancer Society is having a Relay For Life event at Palo Alto High School on Sat. Aug. 16th. These year...

Mantra is a relatively new restaurant in downtown Palo Alto right across the street from Beppo's. I stumbled across it on kind of a wh...

Here's a link to a posting of recent home sales in the Palo Alto Weekly. Recent Home Sales

All across the country home values have been free-falling. It's a matter highly covered by the media, and something many people have exp...

Buying a house is always a big decision. Especially if you've never owned one before, and especially when the housing market is unstable...

Forbes decided to give it to us, in the form of an informative little article detailing some of this country's most highbrow neighborh...