Adjacent to the even more massive San Felipe Ranch, which totals over 28,000 acres of Silicon Valley land and is owned by the heirs of Bill Hewlett and David Packard, the 3,653-acre Richmond Ranch at 7500 San Felipe Road has traded hands for $25 million. While the former cattle... Read More »

San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, has sold his gated San Jose home at 4903 Eastbourne Court for $3.075 million, which is roughly 3 percent more than Kaepernick had invested in the property over the past two years, having purchased the 4,600-square-foot home for $2.7 million and spent $300K... Read More »

The San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, has just put his gated San Jose home at 4903 Eastbourne Court on the market for $2.895 million. Kaepernick purchased the 4,600 square foot house, which sits on a half-acre lot and features 12-foot ceilings on the first floor, for $2.7 million... Read More »

For the first time ever, a major metropolitan area in U.S. has recorded a median sale price above $1 million for single-family homes. And that honor belongs to San Jose, which includes Sunnyvale and Santa Clara. Behind San Jose at $1,085,000, which is 10.7 percent higher versus the same... Read More »

According to a Coldwell Banker accounting of home sales across the U.S. which closed escrow with contract prices of over a million dollars in 2015, the city of San Francisco tallied the third most million dollar sales in the U.S., behind only New York and Los Angeles and followed... Read More »

San Jose (#1) and San Francisco (#2) remain the two most expensive major metropolitan areas in U.S. for single-family homes and the gap between the two and the rest of the nation widened in the second quarter of the year. The median selling price for a single-family home in... Read More »

Apple has purchased the 43-acre development site at 2347 North First Street in North San Jose’s Golden Tech Triangle which developer Lowe Enterprises had been marketing as a potential 1.8 million square foot North First (‘n1’) campus, designed by Gensler “with tomorrow’s rising companies in mind.” Apple paid a... Read More »

Bearish calls for the Bay Area housing market have been ticking up over the past three months with one of the latest coming from Clear Capital, a national provider of real estate valuations, data and analytics for brokers, lenders and appraisers: “Both San Francisco and San Jose have been... Read More »

The legal challenge of San Jose’s affordable housing law which was passed five years ago but blocked by the building industry in a lawsuit contending that the ordinance was an unconstitutional ‘taking’ of private property has been unanimously rejected California’s Supreme Court. Similar to San Francisco’s Inclusionary Housing ordinance,... Read More »

A proposal to increase the number of bikes in the Bay Area Bike Share program from 700 to 7,000, and expand the network to include Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville, will be considered by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s Administration Committee next week. Motivate, the current operator of Bay Area Bike Share pilot program,... Read More »