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The DeLeon Insight – September 2025



Determine Your List Price

By Ken DeLeon | Founder A famous empirical study by Steven Levitt, one of the authors of the famed Freakonomics, discovered a fundamental difference between listing prices that real estate agents choose for the homes of their clients and their own…

Menlo Park Wine & Cheese Networking Event

The DeLeon Team invites you to a special networking event at 43 Biltmore Lane, located in beautiful Menlo Park. Don’t miss this great opportunity for you and your clients to meet with some of the area’s top agents over fine wine and cheese, while exploring this charming residence.

Palo Alto Weekly: Within Walking Distance

Investment Trends: Redwood City, Out Appreciating Silicon Valley Since 2014

By Ken DeLeon | Founder  Attorney, Buyer Specialist The fundamentals of residential real estate in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Los Altos haven’t changed over the past five years: Declining Inventory + Strong Demand = Rising Prices. What has…

Tesla’s New Solar Roof

  Tesla, Inc. started taking $1,000 deposits for its new solar roof tiles back in May and will begin installing roofs in California any day now. So, what do you need to know about their new technology, and what does it mean for us here on…

Silicon Beat: In the heart of Silicon Valley, summer home sales keep going up despite sharp drop in listings

SOURCE Real estate markets traditionally suffer from the summertime blahs. But the Silicon Valley market is not a normal market, particularly in Santa Clara County. Yesterday’s monthly report from the CoreLogic real estate information service…

Neighborhood Spotlight: Community Center of Palo Alto

  Community Center, as it is appropriately named, is just that—a community-centric neighborhood of Palo Alto where residents feel a strong connection to each other and the neighborhood itself. With a population of approximately 2,000, Community…

Reinventing a Traditional Home

By Leah Li | Interior Designer The process of reinventing a traditional home always excites me. Compared to new homes that are built to look like a Colonial or a Victorian, true Traditional homes with history, character, and a story to tell are…

Inman Connect 2017: Protecting Ourselves From Power Shifts in Real Estate

The pros predict we'll be working in an increasingly polarized industry The real estate industry is going to become more polarized, with discount brokerages at one end and luxury, high-service brokerages at the other. This prediction came from the…

Winning Preemptive Offers

  In a hot seller’s market such as Silicon Valley, many buyers have undergone a bidding war and were rejected, at least once or twice. This process is not only frustrating and stressful, but emotionally draining on buyers. Buyers in such…