Category Archive: Real Estate

Nov 20

Portola housing market update

This month we’ve been contacted by a new Portola citizen. Realtor Helena Zaludova. She has spent the last year doing a lot of research into the statistics of the housing market in our neighborhood. So much so, she ended up buy a house here! Welcome to the Portola Helena. Her research found such positive news …

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Aug 20

SOLD! Another classic Portola property to undergo renovation

The change in the Portola continues. A few months ago we reported on a beautiful old house that had run into dis-repair was finally sold. Work has started and we hope to bring news of the future plans to planet readers in the near future. However another classic Portola property, which also fell into a terrible …

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Apr 28

SOLD! Who bought 460 Hamilton Street?

Our trusty, local realtor, Joan Loeffler, has turned me onto a rumor that someone just paid over $600,000 in cash for the above. A building with no finished interior walls, bare unprepared floor boards and a rear part of the house that needs a lot of work (Just look at the photos at the bottom of …

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Mar 16

Realty report for first quarter of 2012

What is happening in the Portola real estate market you ask? I think things are perking up a bit in the Portola. Supply and demand are heating things up and with buyer’s getting rates under 4%, they are coming back to the market. Sellers so far have been hanging on to their homes waiting for the market to go …

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