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Flashy charts that show growth in the Real Estate Market

Holly Barr — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 04:15:52 +0000

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.

Holly Barr — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:12:36 +0000

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 purchase. It gives me pause to think that perhaps a few sellers are waiting until the Facebillionares come into their cash and want to buy a house.

What do you think?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/silicon-valley-homes-costs-lot-123014588.html;_ylc=X3oDMTNuZXR1OTBlBF9TAzExODMzMDAyNTAEYWN0A21haWxfY2IEY3QDYQRpbnRsA3VzBGxhbmcDZW4tVVMEcGtnAzZmM2E4ZGRhLTNlNGUtMzRiNC1iMDgyLWQ4YjgxMzFlYTk4MARzZWMDbWl0X3NoYXJlBHNsawNtYWlsBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3

Buzz of construction at Alma and Minnesota Ave.

Holly Barr — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:26:07 +0000

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 told me that the restaurant was so busy its first week that they had to take the day off today to catch up! His other daughter,Karen Cepetes, is opening a fruit stand at the corner closest to Arco. The fruit stand will have a lot of organics and should be open within two months.

The construction at the corner has been a long time coming! He is building it to suit, so if you know of anyone looking for a new Willow Glen location, touch base.

Build to Suit!

Holly Barr, Your Favorite Realtor, joined Sereno Group!

Holly Barr — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:17:20 +0000

Holly and Sereno founder Chris Trapani in front of the new Willow Glen Town Square, opening this spring.

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 was Trapani Realty back in the 1950′s at what is now the Comerica Building 1191 Lincoln Ave. By April of this year Sereno will be in the new Village Town Square building where I will be in the thick of what is happening in Willow Glen and be able to CHARM about it!

Improve your property value!

Holly Barr — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:46:25 +0000

Improve your property value through supporting your local schools!

Checkbooks ready??? Budget cuts in public schools

Holly Barr — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:47:14 +0000

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 or cookie dough! It does come back to you!

Also, if you have an ITEM or SERVICE to donate for a silent auction for Booksin Elementary’s annual walk a thon happening 10/10/09 PLEASE let me know!

Here I am at the Kindergarten Ice Cream Social- movin and shakin’ love it!

Open House Hot Dog Style

Holly Barr — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:52:53 +0000

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 to 2000 neighbors inviting them. I hate to get voice mail blasts yet, it is free to me and I need to do all I can to get EYES into this house to get it sold! There are several houses that are pending sale and when they close escrow they are going to hurt the value. Should be interesting to see the turn out this weekend.

LOW Willow Glen Inventory is it Gonna Raise Prices?!

Holly Barr — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:37:03 +0000

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 ready to buy and there is just not much inventory out there for them to buy. It will be interesting to see what this does to pricing. Seems a simple supply and demand issue and it will drive prices up a bit…although we have all be surprised before.

Willow Glen Home Sale Stats 5/10/09

Holly Barr — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:42:11 +0000

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 Willow Glen. The week before was only 13! Price ranged from $1.6M on Dry Creek to $199,500 on Hull Ave. I just spoke to a builder who sold a house (before being on market) for close to $4million!!

Gotta love real estate… I do!

San Jose Guide

Holly Barr — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:17:17 +0000

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 you have an interest in recieving a Guide to San Jose. I hope to have it up on my site soon.