The LA Times reports:  When will housing come back in California? Five experts offer their views. Foreclosures in the state are still high. Sales of new homes are at historic lows. And millions of homeowners are underwater on their mortgages. So what's the outlook for 2011 and beyond? - Well if this story is any indicator, the outlook ahead is still to b...

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[caption id="attachment_1490" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Beautiful Village Square Home"][/caption] Purchasing a home is considered to be a long-term investment. At SummerHill, we understand the importance of carefully approaching this decision for your family. A few tips as you navigate buying your new home: (more…)......

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SummerHill Homes has been based in Palo Alto for over 30 years.  We have a historical tie and firm relationships that we will continue to foster to build more new homes on the Peninsula. While we’ve always had a strong base on the Peninsula, our move to San Ramon is to recognize that we build throughout the Bay Area. It may come as a surprise that weâ...

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Family life is thriving at Satake Estates Residents at Satake Estates just held their first annual Summer Block Party to celebrate the creation of their fabulous new neighborhood.   This was a great opportunity for the current residents to meet each other and also the many future homeowners who are anxiously awaiting the completion of their new homes....

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As a marketer with limited time, I want to be able to click of a button push all of our listings out to Trulia, Zillow, Google Base, and more. New Home Feed launched about a month ago and I've been testing it in Beta.  It sure is making it easier for me to update listings to all these sites, so that we're sure that interested homebuyers are getting up to dat...

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Turn-key is defined as a spec home ready for immediate move-in, which is much of the "new" on the Peninsula. SummerHill's homes are different.  We build brand new from the foundation up. Depending on when you purchase your home, you get to personalize your home to get more early in the construction of the home and a bit less if you purchase later in the const...

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We celebrated our Redwood Gate park opening with a homeowner “Meet and Greet” party and it was a HUGE success. We were thrilled at the turnout - over 50 people in attendance.  Wow what a great party! Homeowners that recently closed escrow plus homeowners excitedly waiting to move into their new homes joined in the fun. [caption id="attachment_109...

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Tomorrow we're hosting a broker event at our Merimont community in San Bruno. We wanted to share some tasty treats with our broker partners.   It would be easy to pick up pastries at Starbucks, where we will be getting the coffee, but that just didn't seem as fun as supporting the local bakery.  I hopped on Yelp and discovered Pastisserie Ganache...

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SummerHill is pleased to announce our partnership with Passport Unlimited Corporate.  This program offers exclusive access, special rewards, and benefits at top Bay Area businesses, including SummerHill Homes. Passport Unlimited Corporate is a part of the employee perks programs at companies such as Intel, Oracle, Yahoo, HP, Genentech, AMD, Apple, Microsoft,...

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I don't know about you all, but I feel like this year is just going so fast! Can you believe the first day of Spring is tomorrow?!? Weren't we just recovering from baking cookies at Christmas, paying Valentines Day bills, starting a new school semester and eating corned beef (oh wait- we were just eating corned beef! Corned beef sandwich leftovers are the best!...

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