The Silicon Valley housing market continues its long rebound, with May seeing year-over-year increases in sales and median prices for both homes and condos in Santa Clara County. But you’ll need to act fast to have a chance at one of these properties because they’re spending less and less time on the block!
Don’t forget to wind all your clocks ahead one hour at 2am Sunday morning. Of course, most of our watches and devices update automatically. But it always freaks us out when the coffee maker goes on early!
Did you know? What we experience as Coordinated Universal Time (or UTC) is an atomic time scale based on the performance of atomic clocks and more stable than astronomical time (or UT1), which is based on the Earth's irregular rotational rate. Whenever the difference between UTC and UT1 approaches 0.9 seconds, a “leap” second is added to correct for it. Learn more from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
In the digital age, we’ve gotten used to clocks and watches automatically adjusting for Daylight Savings, which ends early Sunday morning. But don’t forget to wind back any analog clocks or devices that aren’t connected to the internet!
The market continues to wake up on the cool side of the pillow, with inventory and median sales prices down year over year. Of course, the holidays are typically a slow period, and with the global economy still in recovery mode, we’ll see what the new year has in store.
