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Browse Los Gatos neighborhoods
Get to know the community! Learn about Los Gatos real estate through the many neighborhood profiles on this Live in Los Gatos blog – approximately 70 Los Gatos neighborhoods described here. Many of them include current Los Gatos homes for sale, pending, or recently sold at the end of the article, too. We are adding to this list continually. If you’d like your neighborhood featured, please email us!
Downtown or
Central Los Gatos

How old are the oldest houses in Los Gatos and nearby?
If you drive through the Edelen, Almond Grove, Fairview Plaza, Glenridge and other older and historic Los Gatos...

Fanciful roof art
My work takes me all over Los Gatos, but usually I'm driving. The other day I noticed some fanciful roof art as I was...
East Los Gatos

Harwood Farms horse boarding
While south county has many equestrian centers, Harwood Farms horse boarding is right in Los Gatos and conveniently...

National and Los Gatos-Almaden neighborhood
Today I visited a friend in the convenient National and Los Gatos-Almaden neighborhood and wanted to write about it as...
North Los Gatos

Arroyo Grande Garden Hill neighborhood
The Arroyo Grande Garden Hill neighborhood in Los Gatos enjoys one of the easiest Silicon Valley commute locations in...
East Los Gatos, West Los Gatos
Los Gatos is very spread out, and includes a strange shape, weaving in and out with county pockets, San Jose,...
West Los Gatos

Saratoga Highlands, Rio Rinconada, Granada Way and La Rinconada Park Neighborhood
Saratoga Highlands, Rio Rinconada, Granada Way and La Rinconada Park neighborhood are situated in west Los Gatos near...
Old Adobe Road neighborhood
At the northwest corner of Los Gatos you'll find a really beautiful neighborhood that consists of Old Adobe Road and...
Monte Sereno

Loma Serena neighborhood
The Loma Serena neighborhood in Monte Sereno is semi-rural, and it enjoys the distinct advantage of being an...
About the city of Monte Sereno
An Introduction to Monte Sereno, California Nestled against the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains on the west side of...
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English Oaks and Oakwood neighborhood
The English Oaks and Oakwood neighborhood consists of two adjacent subdivisions set in a pretty area of west Los Gatos not far from Quito Road and just off of Bicknell Road. English Oaks Off the beaten path, the west Los Gatos subdivision or neighborhood named English...
How quiet is that neighborhood?
Recently one of our clients shared with Clair and me a website for assessing how loud or quiet a location is. It was news to me that such a site existed, and I wanted to share it with our readers. We have grades or scores for schools, for crime, for quality of life -...
Ramohs Pacific Railroad in East Los Gatos
The Ramohs Pacific Railroad once ran through the foothills off of Blossom Hill Road in East Los Gatos. Today there are hiking trails in the Heintz Open Space Preserve (behind the Heritage Grove neighborhood put up by SummerHill Homes in about the year 2000)....
Belwood, Belgatos, and Surmont neighborhood
The Belwood, Belgatos, and Surmont neighborhood in east Los Gatos is a tidy community at the base of the hills and close to beautiful Belgatos Park. It includes 4 subdivisions which all share access to the Belwood of Los Gatos cabana. They include: Surmont, the oldest...
Los Gatos Carriage Rides
The annual Los Gatos carriage rides are in December, to the delight of many in and near town to celebrate the holiday season. To me there are few things so festive as seeing and hearing the horses clippity-clop down Main Street and North Santa Cruz Avenue each...
Los Gatos Tree Lighting Ceremony
Two of the best attended and most celebrated holiday events in town are the Los Gatos tree lighting and the parade, both of which usually happen the first weekend in December. Annual Los Gatos Tree Lighting This year, the Los Gatos Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony will...

Mary Pope-Handy and Clair Handy
Los Gatos real estate agents, area specialists, and prolific bloggers.
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Mary Pope-Handy
Realtor, ABR, CIPS, CRS, SRES
Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno
214 Los Gatos-Saratoga Rd
Los Gatos, CA 95030
408 204-7673
mary@popehandy.com
License# 01153805
Helping Nice Folks to Buy and Sell Homes in Silicon Valley since 1993
Clair Handy
Realtor, GREEN
Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno
214 Los Gatos-Saratoga Rd
Los Gatos, CA 95030
clairhandy@sereno.com
License# 02153633
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