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To-Dos: Your September Home Checklist

- To-Dos: Your September Home Checklist

- 5 Surprising Homebuyer Turnoffs

- 5 Smart Staging Tips

- SummerHill buys Sisters' 10-acre convent grounds in Los Gatos

- Developer breaks ground on $120 million, 394-unit project near Facebook HQ

- Silicon Valley Offices Are Stunningly Pricey, Just Like the Workers Inside

- 10 Great Places for Rich Fall Colors Year-Round

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5 Surprising Homebuyer Turnoffs - Selling your home requires a lot of prep work. After all, you want to impress as many potential buyers as possible. You can spend lots of time and money adding new upgrades, improving your curb appeal, orstaging your home. But if you make one wrong move, it can lower your sales price, or even worse, prevent a sale at all. Make your home a serious contender and steer clear of these buyer turnoffs.

5 Smart Staging Tips - There’s more than one type of staging. There are staging strategies for when you sell your home, and then there’s everyday staging to help your home look beautiful and comfortable—and uniquely yours. After all, your home’s style should feel like a true reflection of you, and that goes beyond just pieces of furniture.

SummerHill buys Sisters' 10-acre convent grounds in Los Gatos - Nearly two years after putting their Los Gatos convent and grounds on the market, the Sisters of the Holy Names have sold the roughly 10-acre property to a local homebuilder. SummerHill Homes, based in San Ramon, closed on the site at 100 Prospect Ave. this week for an undisclosed sum. The company plans to build 17 homes there at prices starting at $3.5 million, executives said.

Developer breaks ground on $120 million, 394-unit project near Facebook HQ - Developer St. Anton Partners has secured a $96 million construction loan and started construction on a 394-unit apartment complex near the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, the biggest multi-family project in the city in decades.

Silicon Valley Offices Are Stunningly Pricey, Just Like the Workers Inside - Prices in Silicon Valley and San Francisco keep going up because both locales lack the supply to meet demand, Matter explains. At some point, rising real estate prices in the heart of the tech industry will become cost-prohibitive, but he says that tech companies today are worried more about people than office space. “Right now, based on where we are in the cycle, companies are focused more on talent versus cost. That will shift, but we’re not there yet, and I don’t see that happening in the next 12 months.”

10 Great Places for Rich Fall Colors Year-Round - Use nature’s burgundies, golds and oranges in these select spots for a comforting feel no matter what the season. Some of my favorites: