This Valentine's Day is extra special as it is also the Chinese New Year. Â So bring in good fortune and celebrate with someone you love. Â Valentine's Day doesn't need to be super expensive to make it special or romantic. Â Sometimes it is as simple as a day at the spa, or an evening out on the town, even getting away overnight can feel rejuvenatin...
It was not long ago that many homes in the United States didn't have refrigerators. In fact, it was only in the 1930s that fridges became affordable enough for 60% of households in the US to own one and many people in the UK didn't own one until the 1970s, that is pretty recent! Â (source: Wikipedia) Before that people would grow food or go to the local store daily...
Or at least have an excuse to unglue your eyeballs from NFL.com and media day to enjoy some home town sports news.  And so it is with eager anticipation of this year’s 44th Annual Super Bowl that we look at the success of our local community high school sports teams as 2010 kicks off at great year. Redwood Gate in Palo Alto funnels to Gunn High School w...
Yes, that's right Merimont in San Bruno has sold 3 beautiful homes in the last week and a half. Â Talk about excitement. The community is hidden in the hills of San Bruno making it the perfect escape from city life and a busy work day. Â Wondering where you can find a single-family home with a backyard that's close enough to the city for a breezy commute? Â Yup...
The Wall Street Journal posted the following story on 1/28/10. We are all eagerly anticipating what will happen next with the housing market and thought you might be too. The Federal Reserve believes that when they pull out of the mortgage market, that investors will be looking to jump on the bargain mortgages and that will keep mortgage rates low. Good news for all y...
We work in the Real Estate market and the headlines make even my head spin. Many of the stories can be spun in different directions and the trend seems to pull out the negative facts for a catchy title that gets clicks. The facts are often buried in the story. (more…)......
First question…The big news this week regarding new home construction was- (buzz buzz buzz) CNNMoney- what’s the answer? -This week it was reported that although housing starts have fallen over the last quarter, permit requests from builders have sky rocketed. This is the largest request for permits since Summer of 2008 and was a pleasant surprise for ...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about The next frontiers of technology.  Technology and what is new in technology is particularly relevant to the homes that we build and our prospective home buyers, so I thought I would make this a regular piece to highlight what is out in the market place.  As always, we want your input, is there something that you want...
As we decided to relocate to the Bay Area and were looking for a house, we had a few houses in Los Altos in our mind. However, considering both of us are working full-time with two kids under three years old, we were wondering if we’ll be able maintain a 30 to 50 year-old house. [caption id="attachment_774" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Our ne...
When a market is undergoing change, there is a time where the changes starts happening before we fully recognize that they are happening. The past 6 months have been full of change. We are the first to say we are astonished by the activity levels that we've seen and continue to see with our "Mrs. Hill" live chat service seeing significant increase in activity since ...