Guide to neighborhoods in the Real Bay Area
Palo Alto Online: Real Estate Home
Neighborhood GuidesPalo Alto: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/neighborhoods/palo_alto.php
Atherton: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/neighborhoods/atherton.php
Menlo Park: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/neighborhoods/menlo_park.php
Portola Valley: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/neighborhoods/portola_valley.php
Woodside: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/neighborhoods/woodside.php
Mountain View: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/neighborhoods/mountain_view.php
Los Altos: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/neighborhoods/los_altos.php
Thanks to Burbed reader Herve for this find.
For those moving to the Real Bay Area, these guides should be useful. Frankly I think they could be even better if they provided more information like “Number of VC’s” and “# of millionaires” – but this is a great start.
What would you like to see added to these guides?
September 27th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Where’s the guide for Cupertino?
September 27th, 2009 at 11:12 am
There are some lovely slums in each city too, I hope the new specuvestor considers those “for potentially higher equity growth” then complains when their car’s broken into, they’re panhandled, their wife/GF can walk alone, etc.
September 27th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Why is Mountain View on the list?
They must get instant tech cred from Google HQ.
September 27th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
This must be the list of the cities regular folks cannot afford. Things are pretty tough right now with inventory down and prices holding tightly.
After reading the negative news in the media and some of the grim opinions here a few weeks back, I bid for a house in Sunnyvale at 5% under list. Didn’t even get a response, and later found out it sold for over asking.
September 27th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
4 percent something interest rates SV shopper. They’ll go away soon.
September 27th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
SV Shopper – was it a regular sale or a foreclosure? Did you think the asking price was reasonable when you made the offer? Or did you think it seemed a little low?
September 28th, 2009 at 12:39 am
After reading the negative news in the media and some of the grim opinions here a few weeks back, I bid for a house in Sunnyvale at 5% under list. Didn’t even get a response, and later found out it sold for over asking.
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Isn’t that a cute convincing story? SV Shopper
- visited burbed
- read some “grim opinions” here on burbed (not WSJ, not Economist, not SJ Mercury News, not SF Chronicle, not any well-known housing market/economy related column, BUT some opinions on burbed).
- believed those opinions
- give a lowball offer to Sunnyvale property and
- he lost the bid.
Or may be this another Sunday humour from SV Shopper.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:59 am
# of millionaires? It’s got to be close to 100%. The way equity in these homes is increasing, every homeowner in PA is sitting on a stack of money.
September 28th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Pralay: Yes, the mistake he made was to believe your opinion, which possibly cost him the chance to own a house. Lesson learned. Thanks for confirming the worthlessness of your opinion.
September 28th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Can you all believe this? Pralay has a habit of attacking anyone who disagrees with him (and accusing him of being Real Estater). Now he is ridiculing someone for believing in him.
September 28th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Huh?
September 28th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Now he is ridiculing someone for believing in him.
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Great logic, Rescue Dog. Only one problem: SV Shopper’s story is made up. It’s too obvious. May be he is still missing Madison Ave.
September 28th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Yes, the mistake he made was to believe your opinion, which possibly cost him the chance to own a house. Lesson learned.
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Yes, he should have listened you and overbid. Lesson learned –
you can put lipstick on a pigSV Shopper can pretend to be guy from NYC, Butit’she’s stilla pigRealEstater.October 3rd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Looks like the fighting never stops here, and all I did was show up and give a field report. Pralay must have changed his mind in light of recent news, because as I recall he was one of the bears. Anyways, is 5% under list considered a low ball offer these days? Boy have things changed. Wasn’t home price supposed to be dropping 5% a month?
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:15 pm
What are you doing home at 1:38 on a Saturday? This is prime time to look at homes!
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
and all I did was show up and give a field report.
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You mean
fieldfake report, right?October 3rd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Wasn’t home price supposed to be dropping 5% a month?
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Wasn’t home price in RBA supposed to be going up 5% a month? Run SV Shopper aka RealEstater run. Buy something you get priced out forever.
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Correction in #17: Buy something before you get priced out forever.