Alain Pinel Realtors Open.APR.com Website Has Automatic Search Function
You may be aware that 80% of home buyers search the internet first to find their next home and that top real estate brokerages such as Alain Pinel are shifting their media advertising from print to online marketing functionality. However, you may not be aware that you can get good…
Saratoga Alain Pinel Realtors Office Sales Up in March 2010
March 2010 was a very good month for the Saratoga office of Alain Pinel Realtors with closed sales up 287.5% over March 2009 Â making Saratoga the #2 ranking office in the company. Â Â Written volume in March were also up 93.7% over March 2009. The recession may not be over, but…
Finding Saratoga Real Estate Hot Spots with Realtors Property Resouce
REALTORS® are the center of real estate transactions and I predict will remain so, because of four factors: Access to a new propietary program called REALTORS® Property Resource (RPR), REALTORS® extensive market knowledge, Marketing expertise and Negotiating skills. Not all licensed real estate agents are REALTORS® (members of the National…
Saratoga-Live & Saratoga Village Improvements
Saratoga, CA Vice Mayor, Jill Hunter and Brian Berg are two spark-plugs behind the Saratoga Village Development Council, which met Tuesday evening at the Rose International Market on Big Basin Way in Saratoga, CA 95070. In addition to discussing planned events in March and April, the group saw plans for…
Saratoga Real Estate Heats Up With The Super Bowl
The Silicon Valley real estate market regularly starts to pick up about the time of the Super Bowl (wasn’t that a great game)! Inventory of homes for sale in Saratoga, CA 95070 is climbing, but is still a low 86 detached and 11 attached homes. Last week 21 detached homes…
Introducing The New APR Open House App
 In the early 1990′s Alain Pinel Realtors was a pioneer in implementing new internet applications for local real estate and they have just introduced their latest ” killer” application: www.Open.APR.com   This website now gets a feed from the MLS database that shows open houses with maps, a street view and a route…
Home Buyers Should Act Now Before Rates Go Up
Interest rates have been stable over the past week but appear ready to rise based on Obama’s budget which among other things promotes job growth, responsible government spending and is viewed as a positive for the economy based on today’s bond trading. There were several other positive economic reports out…
West Silicon Valley Real Estate Reports from the Front Lines
What a difference timing makes in the real estate market! Â Last fall 2009 the Saratoga real estate market was sluggish and now it fast and engaged. Last week I reported the avalanche of positive market response to a Saratoga listing Moe Baniani and I have on Wolcot Way and…
Santa Clara County Jumbo Mortgages Now Classified Less Risky
Jumbo mortgages in Santa Clara County has been reclassified from a market risk perspective to class 1, which is the least risky class! The major benefit is that now a borrower can put down 20% on a jumbo loan and only need to show 10% of the loan amount in…
Searching Homes For Sale in Saratoga on Google
Search engine giant Google integrated homes for sale searches into Google Maps in July, 2009 and last week added a new functionality that automatically shows listings if the words real estate or homes for sale are added to a city name. Google Maps is an aggregator, showing push pins for…
Are Shared Home Appreciation Arrangements Good for Retirees?
Home buyers looking for homes for sale in Saratoga, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno and other affluent neighborhoods of Silicon Valley are aware that prices in the upper end of the market are currently soft. Astute home buyers are hoping that home values will rebound in the best neighborhoods as the…
Saratoga Private School Open Houses Saturday
This Saturday,  St. Andrews School and Sacred Heart School, two of Saratoga’s outstanding private schools, are featuring Open Houses to boost enrollment.  St. Andrews admissions open house is November 14th from 2 PM to 4 PM and Sacred Heart School’s Pre-K and Kindergarten Open House is November 14th from 10 AM to…
Mortgage Rates Attractive to Home Buyers
Image via Wikipedia Mortgage rates are continuing to stay flat due to unemployment concerns. This week the US Treasury will auction off $81 Billion worth of debt and investors are concerned that demand especially foreign demand will wane due to all the debt that has come into the market over…
Color Trends: Purple is The New “It” Color
Purple has long been associated with royalty, nobility and wisdom and was at one time only associated with the upper echelon. In today’s economic climate, this once exclusive color is not only attainable, but also marked as the hottest color for the months ahead according to Luxury Portfolio’s LuxeTrends. Alain…
