by Juliana Lee Team | Feb 25, 2026 | Real Estate Market Trends
House prices in cities near San Francisco have been appreciating more slowly than in San Mateo. San Mateo house price appreciation is barely higher than that of San Mateo County. House Price Appreciation If house price trends in San Mateo County are carefully...
by Juliana Lee Team | Jan 10, 2025 | real estate trends
A recent look at YIMBY vs NIMBY said that a person’s attitude about high-density housing was strongly affected by how urban centers were widely viewed when that person was about 18. Boomers were about 18 years old at a time when urban centers had numerous...
by Juliana Lee Team | Dec 19, 2024 | Real estate law
Does the need for more housing that is affordable mean simply low-income housing? Projects that are being proposed focus on building small condos as the path to creating more affordable housing. That does not address what most residents want. If you look at the Santa...
by Juliana Lee Team | Dec 17, 2024 | Real Estate Market Trends
The roughly two-year-long pronounced difference in house price growth between Santa Clara County and cities near San Francisco invites us to examine other trends. The volatility of “days on market (DOM)” makes it a trend that is harder to use when looking...
by Juliana Lee Team | Dec 13, 2024 | real estate laws
Many cities have enacted ordinances to protect various trees within their city. A long-time Palo Alto homeowner recently achieved a court ruling forcing his neighbor to remove Coast Redwood Trees whose roots were damaging his house. The legal actions were made more...
by Juliana Lee Team | Sep 21, 2023 | real estate trends
Although JLee Realty does not handle rental properties for clients, we watch what is happening in it to better understand Santa Clara real estate. On Sept 17, 2023, the San Jose Mercury News published an article titled “Bay Area rents see biggest drop in 27 months“....
by Juliana Lee Team | Jun 20, 2022 | taxes
A 1031 exchange is used to defer taxes on the sale of your investment property when your proceeds are invested in a new investment property. Although you probably consider a house you bought with the intention of flipping to be an investment, it is not considered by...