College-Glen Real Estate Sales update for November 2016 (College Greens / Glenbrook)

**All measurements and all calculations of area are approximate. Information provided by Seller/Other sources, not verified by Broker.  All interested persons should independently verify accuracy of information. Provided properties may or may not be listed by the office/agent presenting the information.

Currently there are:  12 Active listings and 5 Pending Sales in escrow.

If you would like a FREE analysis of your homes current market value without any obligation, Call or email.  I’m here to help and love working with sellers and buyers in our neighborhood. Also, Check back each month for the updated statistics.

Connect with Doug Reynolds Real Estate via Facebook, YouTube, and Follow his Blog.

clear skies,

Doug Reynolds

Realtor

916-494-8441

         

www.RealEstateWithDoug.com

www.CollegeGlenRealEstate.com

Need More Privacy for your yard??? Read on...

12 Ways to Add Privacy to Your Yard - A great article (from Houzz.com)  for all of us in California with relatively small yards and close proximity to our neighbors. #SacramentoRealEstate

Enjoy!

12 Ways to Add Privacy to Your Yard

Screen views, block noise and turn your yard into a private retreat

Lauren Dunec Hoang November 7, 2016

Houzz Contributor & landscape designer. Previously a garden editor for Sunset Magazine

Just as you don’t like looking up into your neighbors’ second-story windows, they would probably prefer not to stare straight down at your fire pit from their bedroom. When considering how to carve out more privacy in your yard, look for ways you can use plants, pergolas, awnings and free-standing walls to screen views and muffle noise for mutual benefit. Here are 12 ideas to get you started.

Ohashi Design Studio

1. Translucent panels. If you’re looking to block an adjacent building but still would like light to pass through a screen, frosted glass can be a highly effective material. In this San Francisco Bay Area home, sand-blasted glass panels create a luminous privacy screen for an outdoor dining area.

Scot Eckley, Inc.

2. Free-standing walls. Staggered Cor-Ten steel and wood panels create a feeling of privacy in this Seattle front yard without completely closing the garden off from the street. Play with the heights of free-standing walls — notice how the ones here are sized to block a parked car from view — to adjust to the specifics of your site and what you’d like to screen.

Hoi Ning Wong

3. Hedges. When choosing a plant for a hedge, consider whether you’d like total privacy in the form of a solid hedge or less privacy with one that is lighter and airier.

For maximum privacy and sound suppression, select evergreens with a dense growth habit, such as arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis, USDA zones 3 to 7; find your zone), ‘Spartan’ Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis ‘Spartan’, zones 4 to 9) or cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus, zones 6 to 8), and space them half of the recommended planting distance apart.

For lighter screens that allow light to pass through, choose evergreens such as fern pine (Podocarpus gracilior, zones 8 to 10) or ‘Silver Sheen’ kōhūhū (Pittosporum tenuifolium‘Silver Sheen’, zones 8 to 11).

Grow Your Own Privacy: How to Screen With Plants and Trees

Stefano Marinaz Landscape Architecture

4. Pleached trees. For this hedges-on-stilts look, train young trees with pliable branches into nearly planar screens by bending and interweaving their branches. In this London backyard, pleached Carpinus trees kept to about 10 feet tall screen adjacent homes but take advantage of attractive views of neighboring tree canopies.

Growsgreen Landscape Design

5. Windowed views. A fence made of multicolored recycled wood surrounds the deck behind a San Francisco home, creating a private nook for an outdoor dining area. Irregularly shaped windows among the boards offer selective views of the trees beyond.

Kurt Krueger Architects

6. Slatted screening. Create a feeling of enclosure and interrupt views from neighboring homes with a more modern take on a traditional pergola.

The designers of this Los Angeles backyard used painted steel tubing mounted on posts to create a slatted privacy covering for a backyard lounge.

Red Images Fine Photography

7. Laser-cut metal. Becoming more common in garden design, artistic screens made of laser-cut metal can be used to separate garden rooms, screen a hot tub or hide landscape bins. Mount them a few inches in front of a wall and add lights in the evening to appreciate the shadows cast by the metalwork.

For this home in Perth, Australia, a laser-cut screen with a swirling, almost nautilus-like design provides privacy at the front entrance.

Chateau Construction Company

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8. Wood lattice. Inexpensive and widely available, crisscrossing wood lattice is a great screen material for partial privacy.

To more fully conceal an outdoor shower, the designers of this Woodside, California, backyard planted fragrant pink jasmine (Jasminum polyanthum, zones 8 to 10) to fill in the gaps in the lattice. The spaces between the wood slats allow air to move freely and light to filter through to help dry the area after a rinse.

Dawn Hearn Interior Design

9. Paneled fencing. To create more privacy for this home in Austin, Texas, the designers mounted a series of free-standing wooden screens, staggered to allow passage between them. The advantage of using freestanding panels, rather than a traditional fence, is that you can adjust the height and placement of each section to selectively screen unattractive views or adjacent buildings.

Cool Gardens Landscaping Ltd

10. Colorful acrylic. If you need a screen for privacy or to separate one garden area from another, why not have it be an outstanding feature? Here, semitranslucent colorful sheets of Perspex acrylic mounted in stainless steel frames make a statement.

Greener Living Solutions, Inc

11. Layered materials. Dense materials such as metal, stone, brick and concrete are by far the most effective at absorbing sound waves from traffic or industrial machines. Layer with lighter materials, such as hedges and wood fences, to block more sound than if the materials were used individually. Adding a more peaceful sound such as the splash of water can also help.

The designer of this Seattle courtyard did both: A free-standing metal wall with a built-in fountain adds privacy from neighbors and cuts the noise from a nearby street, while the falling water introduces a soothing sound.

Adolfo Harrison Gardens

12. Potted plants. Good-sized container plantings can be effective at screening views for rooftop and balcony gardens. Ornamental grasses provide light screening from adjacent apartments on this balcony garden in London’s Notting Hill neighborhood, and would sway beautifully with the slightest breeze.

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7 Best Plant Types for Creating Privacy and How to Use Them
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Video - Sacramento Real Estate Explained: Garage Door Remote Controls

Hi, I'm Doug Reynolds.
I'm a Realtor in the Greater Sacramento Area and have been a full time agent since 2006.

In this video, i talked about garage door remote controls.  I know it sounds silly but you would have no idea the amount of issues that happen in real estate over these silly little things.  Typically you are just about to close escrow or have just closed and the buyer says "where the garage door remotes?" or "There's only one remote for the garage door, where's the other one!"

This video should provide great info if you are getting close to buying or selling and want to educate yourself.

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clear skies,

Doug Reynolds

Realtor

916-494-8441

         

www.RealEstateWithDoug.com

College-Glen Weekly Wednesday SnapShot 11/2/2016

Every Wednesday I provide a quick Snap shot of the real estate market in my great neighborhood of College-Glen.

 

This week:                     8      active properties 

Last week:                     8      active properties.    

Two weeks ago:             8      active properties.    

Three weeks ago:          7      active properties
Four Weeks ago:            10     active properties
Five Weeks ago:              10     active properties
Six Weeks Ago:               11     active properties

Seven Weeks ago:           11     active properties
Eight Weeks ago:             11     active properties

This week:                     5      pending properties

Last week:                     9     pending properties

Two weeks ago:            11     pending properties
Three weeks ago:         13     pending properties
Four weeks ago:           13     pending properties 

Five weeks ago:            15     pending properties 

Six Weeks Ago:              15     pending properties 

Seven Weeks ago:          12     pending properties 
Eight Weeks ago:           15     pending properties 

October 2016:           9      Sold so far this month

September 2016:      13     total sold

August 2016:            10     total sold

July 2016:                15    total Sold

June 2016:               12    total sold

May 2016:                10     total sold

April 2016:               7      total sold

March 2016:             7      total sold

February 2016:        10     total sold

January 2016:          8      total sold

December 2015:       5      total sold
November 2015:       7     total sold
October 2015:          7      total sold
September 2015:     15     total sold
August:                    14     total sold
July:                        12     total sold

June:                       14     total sold

May:                          8     total sold

April:                       17     total sold

**All measurements and all calculations of area are approximate. Information provided by Seller/Other sources, not verified by Broker. 

All interested persons should independently verify accuracy of information. Provided properties may or may not be listed by the office/agent presenting the information. 

If you would like a FREE analysis of your homes current market value without any obligation, Call or email.  I’m here to help and love working with sellers and buyers in our neighborhood. Also, Check back each month for the updated statistics.

Connect with Doug Reynolds Real Estate via Facebook, YouTube, and Follow his Blog.

clear skies,

Doug Reynolds

Realtor

916-494-8441

         

www.RealEstateWithDoug.com

www.CollegeGlenRealEstate.com