DeLeon Insight- September 2025 Cover Page

The DeLeon Insight – September 2025



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…

Insider Tips to Selecting the Right Agent to Sell Your House

Choosing the right real estate agent to list your home is a big decision. Clients are often asked to enter into a long-term contract for the sale of their single largest asset with few specifics and no guarantees. That said, there are some key questions…

Negotiating Multiple Offers to Achieve the Highest Price

In Silicon Valley, multiple offers and above-asking bids are common. In fact, it is not unusual for a home to receive 10 or more offers. Naturally, agents who are representing buyers like the opportunity to present their clients’ offers directly to…

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…

Pros and Cons of Different Types of Flooring

The type of flooring in your home can make a significant difference in both its appearance and its value. As such, picking flooring materials is widely considered one of the most challenging tasks when designing a home’s interior. Learning about…

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…

Supply-Side Economics in Action: How the lack of housing supply will prevent price declines in Bay Area housing

After seeing recent volatility and declines in the stock market, some are questioning whether a seven-year cycle of appreciation in Silicon Valley housing is ending and whether we are headed into a period of depreciation. These arguments have focused…

Capital Gains and 1031 Exchanges

By Michael Repka, LL.M. (Taxation) DeLeon CEO/General Counsel "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." - Benjamin Franklin Though cheating death is a fool’s game, strategically and legally avoiding taxes is a…

DeLeon Platinum Introduction Video

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…