Mary Pope-Handy, Realtor 
Sereno Group Real Estate

214 Los Gatos-Saratoga Road, Los Gatos, CA 95030
Direct/Toll Free 877-397-5391; Cell 408 204-7673
Los Gatos, Saratoga, Monte Sereno, San Jose and the greater Silicon Valley Real Estate 
Helping Nice Folks to Buy & Sell Homes Since 1993
Co-Author: "Get The Best Deal When Selling Your Home in Silicon Valley"
Please also visit www.ValleyOfHeartsDelight.com
CA DRE License # 01153805

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What's inside this site?  Lots!

Buyers and sellers of Silicon Valley real estate (generally the San Jose area,
or Santa Clara County) want good information that they can read, digest, evaluate,
and use to make good decisions regarding the sale or purchase of a home. This
site has hundreds of pages of information useful to those interested in realty,
whether for a single family home, a condo, a loft or a townhome in Los Gatos, Saratoga,
San Jose, or anywhere in the greater Silicon Valley area, particularly in the west valley
communities of Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Saratoga, Campbell,
and San Jose districts such as Almaden Valley, Cambrian Park, Willow Glen,
West San Jose, Blossom Valley and everywhere along the Highway 85 corridor.. 

My goal, as your trusted advisor, is to provide you great real estate resources
 (market data, staging information, negotiation strategies, and guidance)
for buying and selling property and homes in all of
Santa Clara County. My websites are an integral part of that service,
whether you are living in  Silicon Valley already
or if you are relocating  here from outside of California.

Whether you are asking yourself "How much house can I afford?" or
"What's my home worth" or anything inbetween, contact me!  I'd like to assist you.

On the front page, please find "How's The Market? Click Here!".
 This Real Estate Report gives market trends and statitistics for the
residential market in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area - Silicon
Valley. The report is broken down by area: by city (Los Gatos, Saratoga, Santa Clara,
San Jose and so on), by region or district of San Jose (Cambrian Park, Almaden Valley,
Blossom Valley, Evergreen, West San Jose, etc.).

Also on the home page here, note a news feed from Inman News
which changes every day from onday - Friday to keep you current on the breaking news.


Inside this site, you will find large sections devoted just to buyers and just to sellers,
their questions and concerns. They include real estate calculators, explanations
about the process of buying and selling residential real estate, links to articles on a
huge variety of topics from Feng Shui, Vastu and Staging to things of interest to first
time buyers, baby boomers, seniors, children, move-up sellers, and anyone else.

To help you collect listings information, an "organizer" is available for you to collect MLS
info., make notes on homes, delete unwanted properties, and mark as interested the ones
you want to either keep an eye on or see. Sign up for one when you do a Private Home Search,
I'll do the initial download and set it to "automatic"  and you will get homes or land that match your
criteria sent to you as much as 4 times a day, if you like (we can set the frequency to be less
if you prefer that).  When homes in your organizer sell, you will know it! Ditto that if they go
off the market. This is a great tool you'll love to use in tracking Silicon Valley real estate!
 
Of course there's finance information and explanations as well as detailed information
on my Santa Clara Valley listings in Campbell, Almaden (also called Almaden Valley),
Blossom Valley, Los Gatos, Cambrian (also called Cambrian Park), Saratoga, Scotts
Valley, Santa Clara or anywhere else I am marketing a home or property at the time. 

The "Community Information" page presents a paragraph or two on each town or region
(district) in Silicon Valley. San Jose is composed of many, many districts, such as
Cambrian Park, Willow Glen, Blossom Valley, Almaden Valley, Berryessa, Santa Teresa,
West San Jose, the Shasta-Hanchett and Rosegarden area, Downtown San Jose,
South San Jose, Evergreen, and many more. 

Within each of those parts of town, there are neighborhoods for which you may want detailed
information (such as Palm Haven in the Willow Glen area, Robertsville in Cambrian Park ,
the Golden Triangle of Saratoga or Belwood in Los Gatos). 
Should you be seeking a particular type of home (such as an Eichler, 
Spanish Style, Craftsman, or Victorian), please contact me
as our search tooks are not as good as the human element in sleuthing these out! 

 If you do not see the specific information you need, please contact me.
As a valley native, I know
the county well and am happy to assist you!

If you are thinking of selling your home in Silicon Valley,
please stop in on the page about my
book (co-authored with Ken Deshaies),
"Get The Best Deal When Selling Your Home In Silicon Valley".
Meet with me to discuss your needs and I will give you a copy of it as my gift! 
And if you would like a no-cost, online home evaluation,fill out the online request
and I'll email you with that information too.

Additionally, there is information on me, Mary Pope-Handy, your Realtor guide here.
I'm a Los Gatos, Saratoga, San Jose (esp Cambrian and Almaden) and Silicon Valley Realtor
with a lot of experience, credentials, designations, certifications and awards under my belt,
and I'm very internet-oriented in my marketing and business, using the best tools I can get
my hands on to best serve my clients in a quick and efficient way.

In a nutshell,
I grew up in this valley, in Santa Clara and in Saratoga specifically, and after school
(Saratoga High School, Gonzaga University - a small Catholic, Jesuit university in Spokane, and
the Graduate Theological Union/Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley),
 marriage,and some years teaching, bought 
my first home in Cambrian Park, a district of San Jose,
  (with my husband, an engineer type named Jim Handy).
We have lived in the Belwood of Los Gatos area
of east Los Gatos with since 1999 and love it here!
Jim has been a Los Gatos Parks Commissioner (volunteer)
for a few years, and my offices, since 1993, have always been in the Town of
Los Gatos - so we have felt very attached to this town for a long time!
With Belgatos Park, the neighborhood cabana, and super neighbors,
we are firmly entrenched.
Jim and I are blessed with two great children and a big extended family.
Our kids attended St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Catholic School
in Los Gatos and are currently enrolled at Bellarmine College Prep
and Notre Dame High School - both in central San Jose.
College seems to be around the corner!

You can read about me and my background under my profile page.
Or read my clients' testimonials online.
And you might take two and a half minutes and view my video
to get a sense of how I work with nice folks
to assist them in making a great deal when buying or selling a home in
The Valley of Heart's Delight.

Please explore the site - it is an encyclopedia of knowledge on the San Jose real
estate market - and let me know if I can be of assistance to you. Many internet-saavy buyers
and sellers begin their education on the web 18 months or more before they are actually
ready to buy or sell.

And finally, while the internet is a great source of information (and there are hundreds of
pages on this site, plus my other websites too), it cannot guide you or interpret the
information on your behalf. If you are looking to buy a home or sell a home
in San Jose, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Monte Sereno, Campbell,
Cambrian Park or Almaden Valley  (to name but a few),
please contact me.
Whether it's estate properties, or condos or lofts, or anything in between,
if it's Silicon Valley real estate, I can help you.
 Even if you think it's early in the process to ask questions, please
feel free to contact me.
I respect your privacy, am not pushy, and would welcome the chance to be your
Realtor of choice and to help you to sell or buy a home here in Silicon Valley,
"The Valley of Heart's Delight".

You can find many great local California real estate information on Localism.com Mary Pope-Handy, ABR, CRS, ePRO, SRES is a proud member of the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, a free online community to help real estate professionals grow their business.