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Saratoga Neighborhoods by Their Houses: Age, Size, Lots and Stories

County assessor records list the year built, living area, lot size and stories for nearly every house in Saratoga. We took the 9,791 single-family houses in the City of Saratoga’s public parcel records, one record per parcel, and placed each in our neighborhood guide outlines. The figures come from
Mountain View Neighborhoods by Their Lots: Lot Sizes, One-Story Zoning and Flood Zones

Mountain View’s public parcel records give an outline and an address for every parcel, and its zoning map shows which blocks are zoned for single-family houses. We took the 7,581 parcels with a site address inside the city’s single-family (R1) zoning districts, measured each lot from its outline, pl
What Willow Glen Buyers Notice During the First 90 Seconds

The first 90 seconds of a home showing often determine whether buyers become emotionally invested—or simply continue to the next property. Long before they begin measuring bedrooms or comparing square footage, buyers are forming impressions about how the home feels. In Willow Glen, where architectur
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