Francis' Silicon Valley real estate corner

Los Altos Hills ranks 4th on the list of the richest small towns nationwide according to Bloomberg Businessweek: Businessweek, which tallied the 50 most expensive small towns with populations of less than 10,000, indicate that Los Altos Hills notched a median home value of $2.16 million, a 13% de...

The number of homes over a million dollars dropped a bit in December 2010, but the median sale price of luxury properties inched higher, according to Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. A total of 158 homes sold for more than $1 million in Santa Clara County in Dec., down 8.1 % from Dec. 09. H...

How does the activity compare with the previous years, in the 5 combined Cities of: Menlo Park, Los Altos, Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Los Altos Hills?   The inventory of all homes for sale stands at 330, with 181 homes over $1 million, and 78 over $2 million. Exactly a year ago, there were 370...

Questions always abound when it comes to schools around here in the Silicon Valley. This is a collection of web links that I created which, I have found, answers a lot of them:   - Silicon Valley schools.   This includes for instance an incredibly useful map of the boundaries for the various Los ...

As I meet clients, I like to sometimes touch on a few little known facts of the real estate market in our state - which I have experienced myself first-hand in several cases in our local Cities of Mountain View, Los Altos and Palo Alto. One of these facts is that buyers continue to face in many i...