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Located at the old Grant Elementary school site at 1575 Holt Avenue, the Grant Park Center offers south Los Altos residents excellent recreation facilities.  There is a large natural grass soccer field, three outdoor basketball hoops, a playground area with two age appropriate play structures, to...

Are homes selling in Los Altos or has the economy tank our local market?  If you look below, homes are still selling, but not quite as briskly as in prior years.  You will also see that prices haven't tanked as well.  However, single family home sales in Los Altos continue to trend down.  Below i...

Image via Wikipedia I recently had a discussion with another realtor about the state of the Los Altos real estate market.  We both felt that it is somewhat easy to tract the number of home sales.  However, we also both felt that due to the lower volume, the effect on sales price trends was not as...

Today's Los Altos/Los Altos Hills Real Estate tour consisted of 14 single family homes priced from $1,290,000 to $5,195,000.  Eleven of these homes are new listings and 3 are properties being re-toured.  Below are some of my thoughts on today's tour. Highlights 1142 Lisa Lane - Listed by Brandon ...

It was such a beautiful morning that I decided to go on the Sunnyvale Broker's tour on my mountain bike.  You should have seen some of the reactions of my fellow Realtor's.  It was as if they had never seen someone on a bike before.  Anyway, outside of making one wrong turn, it was a great mornin...

Image via CrunchBase According to a recent article by Matt Woolsey of Forbes.com, Los Altos real estate is home to two of the most expensive zip codes in the nation, 94024 and 94022.  The zip code 94024, which covers much of the southern portion of Los altos and Los Altos hills, was ranked 30th w...

The Multiple Listing Service is our most efficient means to sell a home and the most reliable source of local market information.  The following information was taken from our local MLS and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.   According to our local MLS provider (ProMLSlistings.com), there cu...

It always seems that with a softening in our local real estate market, there is an increase in real estate related lawsuits.  When the real estate market is good (and appreciating), buyers are happy.  But when it softens, buyers are looking for someone to bail them out.  According to four promina...

In results released last week, the Los Altos Elementary School District's Academic Performance Index (API) increased 5 points from 954 to 959.   API Scores are used to determine the academic performance and improvement of a school and/or school district.  Below is the break down of the Los Altos ...

The Oak Park Condominium complex, located just west of El Camino Real at 938 Clark Avenue in Mountain View, consists of 62 units spread out over 4+ acres of Oak studded grounds.  Built in 1978, the complex consist of eleven 2+story buildings, a nice swimming pool and clubhouse.  There are thirtyt...