Author Archives: Holly Barr

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…

Buying in the $100,000 range

A new buyer came to me the other day… actually, I was picking up my open house signs, she liked my aura and said I had something positive about me and she asked me for my card. Anyway, she is interested in finding a property in the $100,000 range. Suprised to say, there are over…

What is up with rates

From my in house lender at Intero Jadell Schadewitz jschadewitz@theloansource.com there is good and bad … mostly good news on the horizon… There are greener pastures ahead of us in the Real Estate business in 2009.  As of Monday January 5th the Federal Government has started buying Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac mortgage securities at a very…

Movin' on over to Intero Real Estate Services

Today, I made a big move to Intero Real Estate. I look forward to continued success in real estate with the support of Intero. Basically, I moved right across the street! Easy and wonderful offices!