Press
We try to be in the press to get extra attention for our listings. And eventually doing a good job for our clients makes the journalists call us up for a quote now and then. Here are a select few media mentions:
“Silicon Valley has always attracted global talent,” says John Young, global real estate advisor, Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty. “I expect the luxury property market to look fairly similar in a year, because the core drivers—the imbalance of new jobs to new housing units, being the center of the innovation economy and the rapid minting of affluence (NVIDIA employees being the most salient recent example)—look to remain strong for the foreseeable future.
…Young, the Golden Gate Sotheby’s Realtor, argued that Nvidia's still a standout. He pointed to the recent layoffs at other tech companies, which he said have shaken employees’ confidence and made them less likely to spend millions on a house.
“Our city leaders refuse to get the policies that will bring us the extra construction,” Young said. “That is really the wind in the sails of price appreciation in Silicon Valley.”
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One buyer “who got close to the finish line” told them, “You built a Bugatti, but I’m just shopping for a Tesla,” Young said.
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“You have increased demand from people spending more money on their houses than they did [before the pandemic], then reduced supply from Covid-induced shocks to the material supply chain.”
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New construction “is pretty rare here,” said listing agent and developer John Young, of Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty and Young Platinum Group. “It’s not easy to build in Palo Alto. There were a number of challenges.”
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“Transitional outdoor spaces increasingly blur the line — if you have a ceiling with lights, heat lamps, and speakers, but no walls, are you inside or out?” posits John.