San Bruno Halloween Houses!

Booooooooooooooooooo!

Jenevein House

 

Olive Ave. SCARY!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jenevein House window

 

 

San Bruno Coats For Kids 2009

 “Coats for Kids” in San Bruno is a wonderful community tradition coordinated by San Bruno Garbage and The City of San Bruno every year as the weather starts to get chilly!

You can help someone stay warm this winter by simply donating a clean, gently used coat at one of many drop-off locations in San Bruno!

Click here  to see which drop-off location is nearest you!

I love helping at this event every year. It’s a great fun way to get to know the neighbors and give back a little to the community.

The coat giveaway day is Thursday, November 19th 4:00-7:00 pm at the Fireman’s Hall/ San Bruno Chamber of Commerce, 618 San Mateo Ave., San Bruno, Ca. All are welcome. Limit one coat per person. Children must be present to receive coat.

Karin Cunningham

San Bruno Concerts in the Park 2009

   

Oh boy! I am so excited! San Bruno Park puts on concerts every Friday in August starting at 6:00 pm

For the last two summers I made homemade gourmet popcorn and put them in sandwhich bags for my kids to sell for .50 cents each. They were so darn cute! My 4 year old daughter carried her metal pail full of popcorn and my 8 year old son collected the money! I have pictures somewhere that I need to find and post!

Anyways, this year’s 2009 schedule looks like this:

Aug 7th- Livewire (Dance Party Band)

Aug 14- Unauthorized Rolling Stones (Tribute Band)

Aug 21- Cocktail Monkeys (Classic Rock, Pop, Variety)

Aug 28 Dave Crimmen (50’s Rock n Roll)

Be sure to come and if you see me or my kids selling popcorn, tell us you read our blog! Thanks!

 

www.KarinCunningham.com

Above photo taken from:  http://www.sanbruno.ca.gov/

San Bruno Real Estate “Shake Up”!

Skycrest Village- New Homes- San Bruno

From the Skycrest Village, new homes in San Bruno, to the bank owned fixer uppers, San Bruno homes for sale are feeling the shift of a real estate “shake up”! Inventory over the past few weeks has dwindled down to a mere 40 homes for sale and 15 condos. That’s not too many when you consider that San Bruno consists of 14,677 households.

 

Over the past 2 weeks 14 homes have “pending sales”. That’s one sale per day in just 2 weeks! We haven’t seen movement in the market like that in quite some time. The recent average sale price according to the San Mateo County MLS (Multiple Listing Service) is $470,000.

Currently, there are 2 two bedroom condos for sale at the Peninsula Place Condominium complex listed at $279,000. Great opportunity for investment or living in close proximity to the airport and San Francisco. There are also still some great little ranch style homes for sale in the $300,000 range.

San Bruno real estate is prime property because of its nice weather, living on the better side of a fog belt, it’s closeness to San Francisco and all of the conveniences and comforts of living in community that cares about its citizens. People are drawn to San Bruno for it’s rich and diverse cultures, awesome parks and recreation activites, and dedicated school system, as well.

San Bruno bank owned fixer upper!

It’s great to see this activity in the market. It’s not centralized to the lower priced homes, either! Recently, I was involved in a “bidding war” for a house in the Rollingwood area of San Bruno which was handsomely priced at $564,000. This was a 4 bedroom, 2 bath home in average shape. We were up against 5 offers in less that one week!

The lower priced homes do generally get more multiple offers and a lot of them are being bought “all cash”. Imagine that! I think the real estate “slow down” in San Bruno has pick up the pace and has buyers and sellers making new decisions of whether or not to buy or sell. It’s a win win situation for both sides, it seems to me!
 

 

Signs of a Real Estate Rebound

I am not one of profound wisdom, but I am hearing some positive signs of real estate making a turn around, a turn around for the better! Basically, the thinking goes like this, “Hmmm, real estate values are down, not only do I still have my job but I have some cash sitting around, and rates are very low – and may not go lower. So maybe I will stop renting and buy a place (or pick up that non-owner occupied property, or that vacation home), or at least see what is out there.” The market will tell you that at some price, there is a buyer for everything.

San Francisco, the San Mateo Peninsula, East Bay and South Bay are experiencing a surge in homebuyers who are jumping off the fence to try and get their hands on property that they could have only wished they could afford a few years ago. Check out the news link below to see what I’m talking about!

http://cbs5.com/business/real.estate.sales.2.956968.html

 

Here’s another example:

San Bruno 2 bedroom/ 1 bath

Listed at $344,900 just went pending with approximately 20 offers!!

The Pulse Of San Bruno-Karin Cunningham

San Bruno Realtor, Karin Cunningham at Your Service!

I learned along time ago, in my waitressing days at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, that service with a smile makes all the difference in the world to the consumer. When service industry people like their jobs, it makes a world of difference to the worker, as well! When I switched from waitressing to real estate, it felt like almost the same job, just a different product! When I was serving drinks at the lobby bar at the Hyatt and within a few hours went to our Prudential kiosk at Tanforan, I felt like I was still behind a bar but just serving a different kind of drink! Definately a more expensive one!

Tanforan Kiosk

Now that I am an experienced real estate agent or Realtor, I am happy to say that choosing real estate was the best career decision I ever made. I have helped people buy and sell homes all over the Bay Area from San Francisco to San Jose and all over the East Bay from Antioch to Fremont. I have enjoyed every minute, every step of the way and I look forward to many more!

I have a family and we have established ourselves in San Bruno, it only made sense to me to become a part of the community as much as possible and carry on those service lessons that I learned at the Hyatt, especially since I love using those skills. I am on the Allen Elementary School PTA, the San Bruno Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, I go to every San Bruno Concert in the Park in August, swimming lessons, baseball games, soccer games, and most recently I am entered in our San Mateo County Association of Realtors arm wrestling contest! Holy Moly! What am I getting myself into!

San Bruno swimming lessons

If you know anyone thinking of buying or selling a home anywhere in San Francisco, the San Mateo Peninsula or East Bay, I hope you will let them know about me, send them to this blog and my website at www.KarinCunningham.com so I can give them the same great service that I speak of today. I look foward to building my business with you and others who are interested!  Thank you!

Karin Cunningham