Santa Clara Valley Living

What a week for home sales across the Santa Clara County west valley area.  You can see the numbers below in Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Cupertino and even the highend markets has started to bounce back.  It is very evident that sales have picked up and inventory has started to drop across the board.  The conditions of low [...]

Time to review the number of home for sale and recently sold in the Santa Clara Valley.  Inspite of the recent increase in buying activity home inventory continues to increase in certain markets in the Santa Clara Valley mainly the high end market while other markets are experiencing a drop in inventory.  Much of this [...]

These graphs show the weekly absorption of home sales and new listings that have come on the market. This is a very interesting statistic to follow. I have been following this statistic closely because I feel it tells you the whole story behind inventory. Are listings selling or not selling and are [...]

I haven’t reviewed inventory levels in a some weeks and with the increased activity of the market I am curious to see how the different areas such as Cupertino, Santa Clara, Saratoga, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and Los Altos are performing.

Cupertino had a busy week with 16 pending sales of single family homes.  Compare to last [...]

I’ve been writing quite a bit about the Rivermark Development in Santa Clara. There is just a tremendous amount of shift and dynamic in that development right now compared to other neighborhoods. Primary due to the numerous transactions in the past 5 years. Today I wanted to post some information for you [...]

I have been analyzing inventory lately to gauge the health of the real estate market in various cities in the Santa Clara Valley.  While analyzing inventory is important its also important to see the effects of inventory increase on the amount of time that listings are siting on the market.  These graphs compare this the [...]

Spotting trends in the market is certainly the way to find the market bottom of the Santa Clara Valley real estate market.  In this post I am looking specifically at Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Los Altos, Saratoga, Los Gatos, and Los Altos markets.  Looking at Sales and Inventory information to get an idea of how [...]

The Santa Clara home market sales continues to perform better than last years numbers.   So far this year 61 homes have sold versus last year’s 38 during the same time period.  Inventory numbers are about the same across the boad, and will start picking up.  More likely to see some further price decreases, but [...]

Time to take a hard look at the beginning numbers this year and see what we can tell about the market.  For those of you who are not aware, inventory is a big factor in price performance and home values.  As inventory increases and buyers are unable to keep up with the supply of homes [...]

They key to spotting a market bottom is by following the home inventory levels of a specific market.  Once the inventory of homes reaches a top and starts to declince that means the buyers are beginning to overtake the sellers, and hence supply and demand are changing.  Here we take a look at the recent historical level [...]