NEW FEATURE! The San Carlos Week in Review.

Leave it to me to keep changing things on this site.  Never sit still…. The weekly “series-formerly-known-as-What-Sold-and-What’s New” is being enhanced and renamed “The San Carlos Week in Review.”  (I know, I know… that name is boring, too.  So send me your suggestions for a good name!)   What’s the difference, you ask?   I wanted…

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Howard Park: The “Sister” Neighborhood of White Oaks

As you’re meandering through White Oaks looking for your next home, you might not realize that as you cross over Brittan Avenue you’ve quietly slipped into another great San Carlos neighborhood: Howard Park.   Getting the two mixed-up is quite understandable, since they’re adjacent to each other, and together the two neighborhoods make up what we…

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White Oaks Defined

I field this question quite often from blog readers: Where exactly is the White Oaks neighborhood of San Carlos? That’s a great question — and depending on who you ask, you’re likely to get a different answer. Historically, most people loosely described “White Oaks” as the area several blocks in all directions from White Oaks…

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Water isn’t the only thing that freezes around 32…

Home buyers looking in San Carlos start to get frozen out of the market when it drops into the low 30’s; but I’m not talking about the temperature — I’m referring to the number of active listings. In a “normal” real estate season in San Carlos (if you can call our market normal,) you’ll see…

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