Disclosing What You Know: Disclosure Obligations for Sellers and Agents Under California Law

California law requires sellers of residential property to make various disclosures to a prospective buyer. Specifically, among other things, sellers must deliver a statutory Transfer Disclosure Statement (the “TDS”) to the buyer prior to executing…

Top Design Trends for 2016

Ready to go out with the old and in with the new (trends)? A few fads with more modern twists will continue to stay trendy throughout 2016, but it is time to ditch mason jars and chalkboard paint and switch back to clean lines and fun patterns. It is…

Elevate Your Landscaping

During the winter, many of our yards become areas we would rather avoid than enjoy. The once-green lawn that was dried out from the drought probably now looks more like a mud puddle than lush grass. Sometimes we lose plants during the winter from the…

Design Tech High School Relocating to Oracle’s Redwood Shores Campus

During the Oracle OpenWorld 2015 Conference, Oracle CEO Safra Catz stated, “Seventeen years ago, Larry Ellison told me that he’d love to have a school where students learn to think. Our support of d.tech [Design Tech High School] reflects Larry’s…

Five Reasons to Be Excited About Sunnyvale Real Estate

The heart of the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley, the home of tech giants like Yahoo!, Juniper Networks, and AMD, and the keeper of a clean, suburban setting boasting outstanding schools and prize-winning parks—this is Sunnyvale, home to over 140,000…

Facebook’s Effect on the Appreciation of Menlo Park Housing

The Menlo Park housing market has been fairly consistently experiencing double-digit annual appreciation rates since 2011, as well as an astounding 69 percent overall appreciation since 2011. This should come as no surprise as the marked increase in housing…

How a Single-Story Overlay Zone May Affect Your Neighborhood

Joseph Eichler built 2,700 homes in Palo Alto, more than in any other city in America. These beloved architectural gems have found themselves in the spotlight of a controversy in Palo Alto and surrounding cities. The debate is about whether homeowners…

库比蒂诺2015年市场综述

库比蒂诺------世界上最大的科技公司“苹果”的总部，全球和在硅谷苹果最大的雇主之一，以及最出色的学区驻扎地。其持续升值的房屋价值让人叹为观止，独栋屋的销售中位数从2014年的$ 1,680,000美金，上升到2015年的$…

门洛帕克2015年市场综述

洛帕克作为旧金山和硅谷之间的纽带，吸引着众多家庭、企业投资者和退休人员的入驻。早在2014年，门罗帕克房屋的中间价就以24％的升值幅度达到了$ 1,875,000美金；到2015年，其迅猛的增长态势仍然居高不下，房屋价值继续增长了8％，其中间价达到了$…

洛斯阿托斯山2015年市场综述

在过去的五年中，洛斯阿托斯山房屋销售的中间价以接近双位数的速度增长。仅2015年，洛斯阿托斯山的房价就增长了11％，从$ 3,250,000美金增长至$3,612,500美金; 然而同2014年16％的增长速度相比，洛斯阿托斯山有了小幅回落。…