Entries by DeLeon Team

How to Successfully Organize Your Home

Believe it or not, organization can boost your home’s value significantly. Properly and attractively sorting your interiors will serve both to impress prospective buyers and to demonstrate the functionality of your home. Have you ever envied the crisp, clean interiors of homes featured in design magazines or on home improvement websites? Most people think they […]

Investing in a REIT

In the early 2000s, many investors jumped onto the rollercoaster of excitement known as the stock market. However, once the stock market proved too volatile and inconsistent with forecasts, investors became less confident and looked elsewhere to invest their hard-earned money. As our market evolves, millennials in particular grow more concerned about the future of […]

The Ripe Buyer’s Market of Los Altos Hills

Offering award-winning schools, large estates, and beautiful views, Los Altos Hills is widely considered one of the best places to live in Silicon Valley. This sought-after community is even approaching celebrity status: Beyoncé rented a home in Los Altos Hills when she was in town for the Super Bowl, and several top tech executives live […]

Lighting Trends for 2016

2016 brings a host of new lighting trends to incorporate into your home’s décor. Design schemes have lately been characterized by neutral palettes with simplistic, transitional light fixtures. This is quickly changing with 2016’s bold wave of trends for rejuvenating your domestic spaces. Bathrooms can easily be updated by exchanging a tired, Hollywood vanity light […]

The Rise of Northern Mountain View

The DeLeon Insight – March 2016 Alex Seroff, Esq., Listing Specialist North Whisman, Rex Manor, and Stierlin Estates are Mountain View neighborhoods that might not be familiar names to many, but that is about to change. These neighborhoods, originally made up primarily of small 1950s and 1960s homes, condos, and tilt-up office buildings, are seeing […]

以好价钱买到好房子的8个建议

在Palo Alto及周边地区买房子可能会是个相当有挑战性的任务。尽管市场竞争激烈,这里有8个通向成功之路的重要提示: 1) 选那些看起来残破,但只要经过装修或是重新设计就可改观的房产作为目标。 2) 在淡季月份出手。竞争者的减少将让您的出价更具竞争力。 3) 以那些要价过高以致有价无市的房产为目标。您的出价可能是卖家打破僵局的机会。 4) 寻找那些尚未上市的机会。肯拥有的交易信息使得他能够先别人一步捕捉到机会。 5) 买有某种缺陷,但此缺陷对您来说问题不大的房子。比如, 有人对繁华街道就不介意。 6) 考虑那些需要法院同意才可出售的房产。这一点会吓到一些买家,从而减少竞争。 7) 经慎重权衡利弊且详细了解各方面资料后,出价要干净利落。比如用现金付款且付款期限更短就能马上锁定交易。 8) 精心设计出价,使其让卖家的价值最大化而且费用最小化。比如,如果腾房日期比较宽松灵活,或者买家能给予更多安全保证,卖家有可能愿意接受一个低一点的价格。