America's Best HS 2012 per Newsweek

No wonder new home prices at Fremont's Mission San Jose is so high. It has the highest rated California school with open enrollment and IHO's favorite floor plans of new homes.
 
If you have smart kids then your kids can save you a bundle on housing cost. All of the highest rated schools with selective enrollment have relatively low home value ratio. The cities with highly rated open enrollment schools have extremely high value ratio.
 
So in this study - National Rank and State Rank (my eyes were tired so the state # could be off):
University - #148    (#21)
Northwood - #159    (#24)
Corona Del Mar - #202 (#31)
Irvine - #221        (#34)
Beckman - #284      (#44)
Woodbridge - #630    (#91)
 
Northview - Johns Creek - #99      (#2)  - :) 

I don't know what it is like in Irvine, but homes are flying off the shelf in my zip code. Last year was the bottom here.

University - #148    (#21)
Northwood - #159    (#24)
Corona Del Mar - #202 (#31)
Irvine - #221        (#34)
Beckman - #284      (#44)
Woodbridge - #630    (#91)
 
where's the talkjohnscreek website that we can visit and "discuss" real estates there?

Baby Irvine said:
Northview - Johns Creek - #99      (#2)  - :) 

I don't know what it is like in Irvine, but homes are flying off the shelf in my zip code. Last year was the bottom here.

University - #148    (#21)
Northwood - #159    (#24)
Corona Del Mar - #202 (#31)
Irvine - #221        (#34)
Beckman - #284      (#44)
Woodbridge - #630    (#91)
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Baby Irvine said:
Northview - Johns Creek - #99      (#2)  - :) 

I don't know what it is like in Irvine, but homes are flying off the shelf in my zip code. Last year was the bottom here.

University - #148    (#21)
Northwood - #159    (#24)
Corona Del Mar - #202 (#31)
Irvine - #221        (#34)
Beckman - #284      (#44)
Woodbridge - #630    (#91)
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So how much has your home appreciated by?
 
Purchase price : june 30th, 2011 : $488,068     
$97,613.60 : Down payment 20%

refinanced in February 22, 2012 : 3.875% 30 year Appraisal value: $545,000
Last closing: $565,000 for same plan, upgrade and lot size

$545,000 - $488,068 = $56,932 / $97,613 =  58% over 12 months.


USCTrojanCPA said:
Baby Irvine said:
Northview - Johns Creek - #99      (#2)  - :) 

I don't know what it is like in Irvine, but homes are flying off the shelf in my zip code. Last year was the bottom here.

University - #148    (#21)
Northwood - #159    (#24)
Corona Del Mar - #202 (#31)
Irvine - #221        (#34)
Beckman - #284      (#44)
Woodbridge - #630    (#91)
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So how much has your home appreciated by?
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Baby Irvine said:
Purchase price : june 30th, 2011 : $488,068     
$97,613.60 : Down payment 20%

refinanced in February 22, 2012 : 3.875% 30 year Appraisal value: $545,000
Last closing: $565,000 for same plan, upgrade and lot size

$545,000 - $488,068 = $56,932 / $97,613 =  58% over 12 months.


USCTrojanCPA said:
Baby Irvine said:
Northview - Johns Creek - #99      (#2)  - :) 

I don't know what it is like in Irvine, but homes are flying off the shelf in my zip code. Last year was the bottom here.

University - #148    (#21)
Northwood - #159    (#24)
Corona Del Mar - #202 (#31)
Irvine - #221        (#34)
Beckman - #284      (#44)
Woodbridge - #630    (#91)
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So how much has your home appreciated by?
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So about 12% appreciation
 
Yeah... the builder wanted full asking price and didn't even budge a $1. My annual tax came in from the tax assessor for $4578.25.
In my subdivision the highest closing is $3.4M and lowest close is $475,000 over the past 12 months.
 
Trojan, what about you. I haven't been following the RE market in Irvine lately. Are you seeing a appreciation in the last 12 months? How many months of inventory is available?
 
Baby Irvine said:
Trojan, what about you. I haven't been following the RE market in Irvine lately. Are you seeing a appreciation in the last 12 months? How many months of inventory is available?
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We only have about 2-3 months of inventory in Irvine today....about 200 sales per month with about 450 active listings.  Slim pickings out there and anything nice that's somewhat reasonably priced flies into escrow with multiple offers, some over list price.  I'm probably up on my home about 10% since I bought and remodeled it (purchase price + remodeling costs).
 
2-3 month supply is a sellers market. So are you seeing some appreciation across the board for Irvine? Is the median home price rising from where it was a year ago?



 
Baby Irvine said:
2-3 month supply is a sellers market. So are you seeing some appreciation across the board for Irvine? Is the median home price rising from where it was a year ago?
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The same inventory shortage is going on in almost every city in Orange County as well as Las Vegas.  If we stay as low as we are in terms of inventory, I could see some slight price appreciation, but you will need buyers to bid above comps.
 
Don't get me wrong; I would have loved to have attended a great school like Woodbridge High (mine was a dinky little school run by the military with none of the AP/IB classes and other opportunities kids have nowadays; o.k., I exaggerate a little, I think there was AP Biology) but why do you think it is ranked much lower than Irvine and Beckman in this list?  It's still a good national ranking and these are so subjective.

zovall said:
So in this study - National Rank and State Rank (my eyes were tired so the state # could be off):
University - #148    (#21)
Northwood - #159    (#24)
Corona Del Mar - #202 (#31)
Irvine - #221        (#34)
Beckman - #284      (#44)
Woodbridge - #630    (#91)
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Baby Irvine made a wise choice with Johns Creek. 20 years from now he will be making a lot of money and will have lived in a very nice estate size property with gracious living and by then IHO will still be wondering how to expand his 2.5 car to a 3CWG.

Johns Creek beat University High by 49 positions. You did well Baby Irvine! Highly rated school and infancy of Asian migration are the perfect formula. If the Asian population is less than 10% currently then you are destined to experience a huge equity appreciations the near future.

After visiting East Pearl in Duluth I checked out the near by Johns Creek. This place has excellent potential to become the next Fremont of the Silicon Valley.

Baby Irvine said:
Northview - Johns Creek - #99      (#2)  - :) 

I don't know what it is like in Irvine, but homes are flying off the shelf in my zip code. Last year was the bottom here.

University - #148    (#21)
Northwood - #159    (#24)
Corona Del Mar - #202 (#31)
Irvine - #221        (#34)
Beckman - #284      (#44)
Woodbridge - #630    (#91)
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You were in Johns Creek and didn't even let me know? What's up with that?

East Pearl in Duluth has some good dimsum. That area is the Wilshire/Olympic Blvd in 1985, the heart of Atlanta's emerging Korea town. What brought you down to the Atlanta area?

irvinehomeshopper said:
Baby Irvine made a wise choice with Johns Creek. 20 years from now he will be making a lot of money and will have lived in a very nice estate size property with gracious living and by then IHO will still be wondering how to expand his 2.5 car to a 3CWG.

Johns Creek beat University High by 49 positions. You did well Baby Irvine! Highly rated school and infancy of Asian migration are the perfect formula. If the Asian population is less than 10% currently then you are destined to experience a huge equity appreciations the near future.

After visiting East Pearl in Duluth I checked out the near by Johns Creek. This place has excellent potential to become the next Fremont of the Silicon Valley.

Baby Irvine said:
Northview - Johns Creek - #99      (#2)  - :) 

I don't know what it is like in Irvine, but homes are flying off the shelf in my zip code. Last year was the bottom here.

University - #148    (#21)
Northwood - #159    (#24)
Corona Del Mar - #202 (#31)
Irvine - #221        (#34)
Beckman - #284      (#44)
Woodbridge - #630    (#91)
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