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Tools to Research the Bay Area Housing Market

You may have been living in Bay Area for a while and consider buying or selling a house. You may think about or are in the process of relocating to Bay Area. Below is a pool of resources that you can use to find out about the neighbourhoods, schools and other communities info of a particular area you are interested in.

For local opinions about a neighbourhood in Bay Area:

http://www.trulia.com/voices/
http://www.movoto.com/neighborhood.aspx 

Want to know how the schools perform in different counties in Bay Area:

http://www.greatschools.net/

For 2008 School API reports http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ap/apireports.asp You can select the reports by district, by county, etc. It also has the previous year's report for you to compare

Locate a school for your interested house

Some school districts have online school locator that allows you to input the address of a property and find out the schools associated to a particular address:

San Jose

Evergreen Elementary School Locator: http://eesd.org/html/schoolinfo.html

East Side Union High School Locator: http://www.schvision.com/schoolfinder2/ESUHSD/

Milpitas

Milpitas Unified School Locator: http://www.schvision.com/schoolfinder2/milpitasusd/default.asp

You can also call the unified school district for which your interested house belong to to verify the school info.

Look for optimized mortgage rate to buy a house or refinance

Get a grip of the overall mortgage market: www.bankrate.com

Find a local mortgage expert to get a free quote and daily updates: www.easyhomeloanservice.com

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Dem House vote-counter lacks health care votes now (AP) 3/14/2010 11:36 AM

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference Saturday March 13, 2010, in San Francisco.  (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - The House's chief Democratic headcounter said Sunday he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as the White House's top political adviser said he was "absolutely confident" in its prospects.


Taliban: Kandahar bombings a 'warning' to NATO (AP) 3/14/2010 12:12 PM

A former member of Taliban look at weapons during a ceremony to hand them over  to the Afghan government in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Thirty Taliban militants joined the peace process Sunday and delivered their weapons and ammunition to the Regional Peace and Reconciliation Commission-Western Afghanistan in Herat province.(AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - The Taliban on Sunday called their deadly bomb attacks on the southern city of Kandahar a warning to NATO's top general that the insurgents were ready for the war's next major offensive in their heartland.


Partial count in all Iraq provinces has PM in lead (AP) 3/14/2010 11:12 AM

An electoral worker carries a ballot box at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqi people want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Partial counts from all of Iraq's 18 provinces show the prime minister's bloc leading in the country's key parliamentary elections.


AP Exclusive: Pentagon gun was from Tenn. police (AP) 3/14/2010 11:57 AM

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2007 file photo, Miami police chief John Timoney speaks during a news conference.  Law enforcement officials say two guns used in high-profile attacks, one at the Pentagon, and another from the fatal January shooting of an officer at a Las Vegas courthouse, both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tennessee. (AP Photo/David Adame, File)AP - Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.


Storm leaves Northeast soggy, windblown and dark (AP) 3/14/2010 12:03 PM

A storage shed rests upside down against a chain link fence in a parking lot adjacent to Showboat Atlantic City Hotel & Casino as a major storm moved along the east coast causing wind damage Saturday, March 13, 2010 in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/Sean M. Fitzgerald)AP - Utility crews pushed through fallen trees and windblown debris to reach downed power lines Sunday, working to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses as strong winds and heavy rain that wreaked havoc in parts of the Northeast pushed on into New England.


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