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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Silicon Valley Real Estate: The Cold Hard Facts, with a Soft Touch

As much as I love to find you interesting stories and fun events about the Silicon Valley Area and its communities, sometimes the best source of information is the quick cold, hard facts. If you are looking for a home in Santa Clara County, maybe you don't have the time to sit and chat. You just need to know the hard statistics about Silicon Valley real estate. So here is the breakdown from a very trusted source, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®.

San Francisco Bay Area Information:
Median Price: $553,620
Length of time from listing to opening escrow: 55.0
Number of months it would take to sell all homes on the market at the current sales rate: 5.2
Median Price for homes in San Jose: $400,000
Median Price for homes in Mountain View: $656,500

Santa Clara County Facts:
Located: South Bay
Size: Just over 1,300 square miles
Cities: Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos, Palo Alto, and San Jose, as well as the Silicon Valley

Useful Santa Clara County Websites:
http://www.santaclaracountylib.org/
http://www.sccoe.k12.ca.us/default.asp
http://www.2chambers.com/californ2.htm

Now that I have told you what you need to know, let me tell you what you want to know. After all, when it comes to living in Silicon Valley, beauty and pleasure are as much a part of the lifestyle as facts and figures...

Living in Silicon Valley means having outdoor activities like golfing, kayaking, and scuba diving at your fingertips.

Culture flows from the streets - from art galleries and museums to eclectic shopping and wineries to die for.

A great school system and a priority on community makes neighborhoods like Mountain View, California and Willow Glen, California wonderful places to raise a family, grow up, or grow old.

If you want to know more Silicon Valley facts, hard or soft, let me know. I'm a Silicon Valley Real Estate agent that values facts and information, but never discounts that being your agent means finding you a place to call home – a very personal journey. Whatever you need from me, I am here to help.

Shannon Rose
Silicon Valley Real Estate Expert
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Silicon Valley is in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. Typically considered to be comprised of several counties; San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda and Santa Cruz. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations., such as Yahoo, Google, Apple, eBay, Cisco, etc. The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the American high-tech sector. Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United States and the world, Silicon Valley continues to be the leading hub for high-tech innovation and development, accounting for one third of all the venture capital investment in the United States. Geographically, the Silicon Valley encompasses all of the Santa Clara Valley including the city of San Jose (and adjacent communities), the southern Peninsula, and the southern East Bay. This includes cities such as Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Fremont, San Mateo, San Carlos and many more!