Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Miguel Berger, broker / owner of Better Homes and Gardens Real
Estate Tech Valley (Albany / Saratoga.
Naturally, with Miguel's more than 30 years in the real estate business, the focus would be on an app that would give his Better Homes and Gardens Real
Estate Tech Valley company a market edge.
Now with Voiceter Pro — an application created by software developer Ami Berger and his father Miguel Berger, president of Better Homes and Gardens Real
Estate Tech Valley in Upstate New York — users can obtain home information, look into getting a real estate license and connect with local repair professionals.
This service is provided by Better Homes and Gardens Real
Estate Tech Valley.
Miguel Berger, president of Better Homes and Gardens Real
Estate Tech Valley in Colonie, N.Y., says these devices provide a way to reach out to more real estate customers.
Not exact matches
In the past 18 months, Zynga CEO and cofounder Mark Pincus purchased a mansion in San Francisco for $ 16 million; Netscape cofounder Jim Clark purchased a sprawling
estate in Southampton for an estimated $ 49 million; Russian
tech investor Yuri Milner purchased a chateau - style mansion in Silicon
Valley for a record $ 100 million; and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison purchased the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai for an estimated $ 600 million.
We plan to keep investing in real
estate throughout the Seattle area simply because we believe it will become the next San Francisco (most of the major silicon
valley tech companies are opening satellite offices here, and a lot of the larger
tech companies are hiring like crazy).
San Jose has been climbing steadily through the rankings and could eventually take the top spot, partly a result of
tech money and demand in the Silicon
Valley real
estate market.
The moves represent a turn for a commercial real
estate market that until recently had the nation's lowest vacancy rate, driven by early stage
tech firms scooping up space and Silicon
Valley giants expanding to accommodate workers seeking an urban lifestyle.
Colliers Parrish International, a commercial real
estate firm based in San Jose, Calif., has launched a mobile marketing program with FoneMine, a Silicon
Valley tech firm headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif..
As might be expected, San Jose and San Francisco, the bookends of Silicon
Valley, rank first and second among top U.S.
tech cities in a new report from global commercial real
estate firm Cushman & Wakefield.
Tom Wilson is a 35 year real
estate investor and engineer who transitioned from a 30 year career managing Hi
Tech companies in Silicon
Valley to a full time investor in 2000.
Tom is a 35 year real
estate investor and engineer who transitioned from a 30 year career managing Hi
Tech companies in Silicon
Valley to a full time investor in 2000.
Silicon
Valley's housing market is benefitting from a
tech boom as well as a surge in wealthy Chinese buyers who are entering into all - cash real
estate deals.
Also, with the fast pace of innovation — which seems to generate a new real
estate app out of Silicon
Valley every week — it's very hard for brokers to know which
tech investments are right for their organization.
As I mentioned in the news release, the success of many of our native
tech companies has shined a spotlight on Silicon
Valley and our real
estate market in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A major reason
tech companies are branching out of Silicon
Valley and San Francisco are costs, and not just the cost of real
estate — the cost of talent as well, according to Ryan Severino, senior economist and director of research at Reis.
Tech companies that want to stay near Silicon
Valley, but lower their real
estate expenditures are looking to Los Angeles, also known as Silicon Beach.
Sunnyvale and Cupertino, like many other Silicon
Valley towns, have had an extended real
estate boom, as the
tech industry has expanded.