Posts Tagged ‘peninsula’
Zip Code Spotlight: San Bruno – 94066

This post first Appeared in the August edition of

Deal or No Deal: Belmont Views For Under $700k

Belmont is about as convenient a city as one can find if you want to split the difference between the South Bay job centers of Mountain View and Sunnyvale, without being too far from San Francisco for the occasional jaunt to the city. Housing prices, to be sure reflect this fact. (Click images for larger [...]

Deal or No Deal: San Mateo on the Mind

San Mateo is about as convenient as it gets for Peninsula job centers, 15 minutes north to San Francisco and another 20 minutes south to Mountan View. This home is a perfect example of what happens when you list a property too high. (click images to the right to enlarge) First listed 10/31/2008 for $839,000, [...]

Keepin’ It Real Estate: Beware The False Bottom in Housing

By ANDREW JEFFERY This post first appeared on Minyanville. Residential real estate is about to get very weird. In the coming months, housing-market data is likely to show price stabilization in many of the country’s hardest hit areas. Pundits, government officials and real-estate professionals will loudly proclaim the worst of our real estate woes are [...]

The State of the Markets – 4/1/09

The month of March brought a degree of chaos to the financial markets, and indeed to the country as a whole, not seen in, well, months. The stock market culminated another wave of selling with multi-decade lows, only to rebound in the strongest counter-trend rally since the bear market began last year. The AIG bonus [...]

House of the Week Results: It’s Always Sunny in Sunnyvale

Unlike Santa Ana, where last week we learned there is strong demand for attractively priced properties, Sunnyvale has seen sales volume decrease over the past 3 months. This is concerning, particularly as other, distressed areas experience pops in sales activity and the broader economy continues to weaken. Sunnyvale is in the heart of Silicon Valley [...]