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Inside this issue:
Hot Summer Nights 1
Property Notes—
Dashboard
2
Real Estate Corner 2
How About Now? 2
How About Now? (cont) 3
Client Testimonial—
Bansal Family
3
Updated Neighborhood
Statistics
4
Share The Newsletter 4
June 1, 2009
Volume 4, Issue 2
Quarterly Review
N i c h o l a s F r e n c h , B r o k e r A s s o c i a t e , C R S
With summer just around the corner it is time to consider the activities, camps and events that will fill the
days and weekends. I’m sure these months will include summer camps for the kids, sport activities and
possibly some weekend trips to Disneyland, the Zoo, and the beach. Do you take advantage of the fantastic
events in the community?
There is an event for almost every individual and family: from the Los Altos outdoor movie nights, to the
Santana Row Flavors of Jazz and Saratoga Shakespeare in the Park. You can fill practically every summer
evening with a free outdoor community event; just bring your lawn chair, some picnic snacks and a light
jacket – and of course bring your good conversation and smiles. There are even some weekend concerts
and festivals such as the Los Gatos Concert Series on Sunday afternoon. I can usually be found at Music in
the Park, Los Altos Movie Night and Shakespeare in the Park and I highly suggest all of them! It’s is a great
way to get out and meet your neighbors, enjoy some good entertainment and take advantage of our
amazing summer weather.
I thought it would be helpful to compile a list of these activities, so I have put links to many of the communities
on my website for your convenience. If you click the “Community Information” from
www.realtornickfrench.com, you will see the button for “Community Events”. Below are some of the
highlighted events:
Hot Summer Nights
Nicholas French
Broker Associate, CRS
369 S. San Antonio Road
Los Altos, CA 94022
650 773 8000 (cell)
650 247 2999 (office)
650 947 3099 (fax)
nick@realtornickfrench.co m
www.realtornickfrench.com
Location Event Day Time Dates
Campbell, Downtown Summer Concerts Thursday 6:30-8pm June 18 - Aug 20
Cupertino, Memorial Park
Summer Concert
Series Thursday 6:30-8pm June 4 - July 9
Los Altos, Main Street
Friday Night Movie
Nights Friday 8:30pm Aug 7 - Aug 28
Los Gatos, Downtown Music in the Park Sunday 5-7pm June 21 - Aug 30
Menlo Park, Fremont Park
Summer Concert
Series Wednesday 6:30-7:30pm June 24 - Aug 12
Mountain View, Cuesta
Park, Dwntn, Civic Plaza
Summer Concert
Series Thursday 6:30-8pm July 9 - Aug 20
Palo Alto, Various Parks
Twilight Concert
Series Tuesday 6:30-8pm June 16 - Aug 4
San Jose Dwntwn, Cesar
Chavez Plaza Music in the Park Thursday 5:30-9:15pm Jun 4 - Aug 27
Santana Row Flavors of Jazz Tuesday 6:30-7:30pm Jun 23 - Aug 4
Saratoga, Sanborn Park Shady Shakespeare Fri-Sun 7pm Aug 7 - Sep 13
Sunnyvale, Dwntwn Murphy
Ave
Summer Music Series
Wednesday 5-8pm June 10 - Aug 26
Willow Glen, Downtown
Dancin on the Avenue
Saturday 5-10pm June 14
How About Now?
Page 2
Quarterly Review
This is probably the most common question I hear regarding real estate: Should I buy or sell now? I’m
glad you ask, is my common response. I begin to give an overview of the past several quarters from the
low end market to high end and everything in between; addressing the financial market concerns, consumer
sentiment, and the like, not to mention discussing the historical market cycles. From an analytical
perspective it is easy: the lower end areas (East, North, Central, South San Jose, Gilroy, East Bay, Daly City,
etc) are down approximately 40-60% from the ridiculous peak numbers – I addressed these markets a few
quarters ago and mentioned that they were about to see a run on sales. The high end markets, for that
matter, just started realizing their market change, or should I say the sellers realized the change.
By mid 2008 the higher end locations were experiencing the market change, but many did not accept it
either by holdin