The Silicon Valley Business Journal this week writes about upcoming SummerHill Homes plans in the valley, and the article is worth sharing. The largest piece of undeveloped land in Las Gatos has been eyed hungrily by developers for years, for its location and because there is so much demand in the area. Finally, after much debate, the area is being developed. A compa...
[caption id="attachment_2742" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Las Palmas - The Groves[/caption] The San Jose Mercury News recently ran an article on how the San Francisco Bay Area housing costs are impacting the new home market. Land costs have gone up at least 40-50 percent in the past two or three years, Smiley said, ranging now from $3 to $4 million an acre in Sa...
Big news today about California’s drought: the San Francisco Chronicle reports $500 per day water fines have passed the California legislature. Water wasters now face serious penalties, so now seems like a good time to share some water saving tips for our Bay Area new home owners. [caption id="attachment_2734" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Photo by Justin Sulliv...
What are your plans for the 4th of July and the long weekend? The sales team at our bay area new home communities will enjoy the most welcomed day off (and reopen for the weekend traffic on Saturday). With the day off approaching, everybody’s been talking about where to go celebrate the holiday, and some folks did some research into various festivities, and we figur...
The Pacific Coast Builder Show (PCBC) happens this week at Moscone Center in San Francisco. In the world of new home construction, PCBC is one of the best ways for home builders like SummerHill Homes to remain at the forefront of what’s hot in real estate. We get to go to education seminars to learn about trends in everything from paint color to housing economics ...
We read with interest a recent Q&A with Lawrence Yun, the chief economist for the National Association of Realtors (NAR), that ran in the San Jose Mercury News. Yun is a man who, when he speaks, everyone interested in real estate listens. His predictions and observations is closely analyzed across the country and in the halls of congress. As a builder of new homes...
SummerHill Homes is currently selling a variety of new home communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. We want to update you on all the communities, basically because recently much of the attention in the press has been just about Las Palmas, an attached homes community in Sunnyvale. (The first release sold out in the first 10 minutes. We averaged about ten offers for...
With memorial day behind us, we can now turn to thoughts of summer. For many in the bay area, that means thoughts of gardening. At our new attached homes community in Sunnyvale, Las Palmas, the team of landscaping pros have thought a lot about what makes a garden beautiful. Rows of beautifully manicured palm trees dot the landscape and everywhere you’ll see beautifu...
It seems like everyone is trying to buy in Sunnyvale. At least that's our impression watching all the brisk sales activity at Las Palmas, the new home community in Sunnyvale (and its not just an impression. The number of homes sold in Santa Clara County jumped 27.4% in April and the average number of days on the market dropped to just 22 days!). So we keep gettin...
This is great! On April 17th, the SummerHill Homes new home community Maravilla was acknowledged with the prestigious “Public Private Partnership Award” by the Association of Bay Area Governments. This was at the eighth annual “Growing Smarter Together Awards” presented during the spring General Assembly to the cities of Redwood City, Walnut Creek, Campbell, R...