Author Archives: Holly Barr

Flashy charts that show growth in the Real Estate Market

Fresh from the California Association of Realtors for those of us who like charts… a chart is worth a thousand words. CAR charts 2-2012  

Real estate prices expected to soar as Facebook stock is released.

Facebook is valued at some astronomical amount like $100 BILLION… that’s a lot of cheddar that will melt all over the real estate market slowly as stock is released. Should be interesting because right now, inventory is too low for the standard 3 bed 2 bath between $650,000 and $800,000 where many buyers want to…

Buzz of construction at Alma and Minnesota Ave.

I dropped off my dry cleaning at the eco friendly dry cleaners at Willow Glen’s Cleaning and Alteration shop at 571 W Alma  Ave. (cheap plug for them) and I met the owner of the strip mall, Bob Vlahopoulioti. He is also the father of Maria Vlahopoulioti the owner of the new greek restaurant, Souvlaki. Bob…

Holly Barr, Your Favorite Realtor, joined Sereno Group!

I just joined Sereno Group (here is a picture with me and Sereno founder Chris Trapani). Sereno focuses on hiring experienced agents and is extremely polished yet not corporate. In 2011 the collective 200 agents did $1.2 billion in sales. Sereno has strong roots in Willow Glen that date back to the early 1900′s. There…

Improve your property value!

Improve your property value through supporting your local schools!

Checkbooks ready??? Budget cuts in public schools

Today is the first day of school for SJUSD and with all the cutbacks, everyone has to be extra generous with our time and resources! Helping schools only helps the future, our communities and in turn helps your property values (better schools better values!). Basically, I am strongly suggesting that you buy that roll of wrapping paper…

Open House Hot Dog Style

HOT DOG OPEN HOUSE Sat. 8/8/09 1086 Byerley Ave. San Jose, CA 95125 beautiful house in Willow Glen that is in the higher price bracket at $1,349,000.  This weekend 8/8/09 I am hosting an open house and my husband will be grilling up free hot dogs and soda. I am doing a voice mail blast…

LOW Willow Glen Inventory is it Gonna Raise Prices?!

I have a short sale at 1924 Hicks Av. Great house on a slightly busy street 3 bed 2 bath 1840 sq ft for $599,000 I got multiple offers on it for well over asking. Granted the house is not finished, however I had 70+ groups through the house on Saturday! Lower end buyers are…

Willow Glen Home Sale Stats 5/10/09

Well, I gotta say on my blog as I say to all my clients… the market is CHANGING! I have buyers that refuse to believe me and still want to wait until prices go down further. I am seeing multiple offers 35 offers in some cases!! There were 23 sales in the last week for…

San Jose Guide

My marketing guru husband Greg just put together a very cool guide to San Jose, CA that includes Campbell, Santa Clara, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Cambrian and Willow Glen (neighborhoods within San Jose). There is information about schools, shopping and up to date home pricing -even a map of each area. Let me know if…