Home & Real Estate on 7/23/10; previous sale 8/99, $895,000
Mountain View 505 Cypress Point Drive #280 T. Pato to Thompson Trust for $280,000 on 8/5/10; previous sale 6/05, $345,000 201 Granada Drive C. Leon to B. & T. Ta for $550,000 on 8/10/10 821 Montgomery St. A. Li to B. Viswanathan for $517,000 on 8/6/10; previous sale 10/97, $235,000 355 Snyder Lane M. Bhandarkar to E. & R. Gild for $708,000 on 8/3/10; previous sale 7/04, $625,000 593 Tami Way S. & S. Gupta to J. & B. Turner for $960,000 on 8/5/10; previous sale 6/04, $841,000 191 Thompson Square Arreola Trust to J. Forster for $865,000 on 8/4/10; previous sale 3/88, $230,000
Palo Alto 2330 Carmel Drive Poncedeleon Trust to K. Khodi for $1,048,000 on 8/9/10 978 Loma Verde Ave. W. & H. Leichter to C. & C. Mousseau for $1,275,000 on 8/5/10 4257 Los Palos Ave. J. Liu to Y. Fang for $1,385,000 on 8/6/10; previous sale 10/04, $911,000
Portola Valley 90 Iroquois Trail Wong Trust to M. & A. Armsby for $2,000,000 on 7/23/10; previous sale 10/86, $300,000
Redwood City 1675 Alameda De Las Pulgas Kelley Trust to B. Younger for $569,000 on 7/27/10 601 Baltic Circle K. & H. Hoo to L. Lin for $570,000 on 7/22/10; previous sale 6/08, $700,000 527 Beech St. JP Morgan Chase Bank to H. Lee for $228,500 on 7/22/10; previous sale 5/04, $534,000 964 Blandford Blvd. Mason Trust to Miller Trust for $1,695,000 on 7/27/10; previous sale 6/07, $769,000 7 Captain Lane H. Sardesai to L. Ochoa for $620,000 on 7/22/10; previous sale 10/04, $675,000 132 Duggan Road M. & B. Kussoy to J. Holtzman for $1,125,000 on 7/23/10 168 Finger Ave. Downey Savings to Templeton Trust for $1,830,000 on 7/23/10; previous sale 11/05, $1,499,000 1672 Kansas St. J. Simoncini to Kansas Street Limited for $900,000 on 7/23/10; previous sale 5/94, $430,000 320 Oakdale St. Parsons Trust to F. Street for $1,445,000 on 7/27/10 2074 Oregon Ave. Merrill Lynch to C. Tordoff for $718,000 on 7/28/10; previous sale 8/00, $700,000 1921 Poplar Ave. GMAC Mortgage to L. Watkins for $418,000 on 7/28/10; previous sale 6/05, $599,000 1227 St. Francis St. Versus Trust to T. Crumby-Beckloff for $605,000 on 7/22/10
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dent since 2006 Martha Klein said. With Stanford, Palo Alto High School, the Caltrain, California Avenue, University Avenue, and Town & Country Village all within walking-distance, residents love the location. “For teens, it’s perfect,” Irina Gorelik, a mother of four and Southgate resident since 2007, said. Southgate reminds Klein of the North Carolina of her childhood, when kids played in the street after dinner. Of course in the 1960s Southgate kids also played in the park after dinner. Lauren, who’s lived in Southgate since 1945, remembers telling her kids she’d meet them in the park when she finished eating. “I see a daily procession of people with dogs, women with babies, fathers taking the twins to Peers Park, and of course lots of bikers,” Klein said, lifting a snoozing cat from her couch. “This cat isn’t mine — probably a neighbor’s. This is how cozy Southgate is,” Klein said. Stuart Sailer, father of two, moved to Southgate in 2005. He fell in love with the sense of community — the number of people walking on the street and the small scale of the neighborhood. “It was even more friendly than we’d expected.” The neighborhood holds annual Memorial Day block parties and toy drives. Individual blocks sometimes organize parties and picnics. Neighbors arrange folding chairs in the middle of the street, and spend the evening eating and talking. Southgate has seen a lot of construction in the last two years. Gorelik estimated that since she moved in at least five or six former cottages have become sizeable homes with added second floors. When she arrived in Southgate, Gorelik knew her house was too small for her family, but the location was too perfect to pass up. She is now working on expanding her own home as well. Palo Alto High School teacher and Southgate resident since 1996 Kate McKenzie also noticed the trend to make over small houses. “I don’t want to criticize people who build bigger houses, but it has changed the face of the neighborhood,” McKenzie said. The proposed high-speed rail that would link San Diego to San Francisco has become the biggest issue in the community. “We all wanted it, but it’s a bummer to have it go through your neighborhood. It could possibly rip up a whole street of houses. It is going to make a pastoral neighborhood louder,” McKenzie said. Lauren worried that the high-speed rail may take out her garage. The rail project, however, could take more than a decade to organize and construct, Lauren said. Her house’s inheritors will likely have to deal with the high-speed rail, “but at my age, I’m not too worried that it will impact me.” N Editorial Intern Georgia Wells can be reached at gwells@ embarcaderopublishing.com.
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