Recent Sales

420 Patch Ave, San Jose
Represented Buyers,  $1,330,000
05/10/2024

639 Cayuga Dr, San Jose
Represented Buyers,  $1,600,000
01/30/2024

2915 Corvin Dr #161, Santa Clara
Represented Buyers,  $1,600,000
11/22/2023

 

46858 Bradley St
Represented Buyers,  $1,831,000
09/08/2023

1433 Lansing Avenue, San Jose 95118
Represented Buyers,  $1,305,000
07/12/2023

6170 Linford Ter, Fremont, CA 94555
Represented Buyers,  $1,470,000
04/26/2023

 

47435 Clavey Falls Ter, Fremont, CA 94539
Represented Buyers, $1,238,880
12/29/2022

1419 Pine Grove Way, SAN JOSE, CA 95129
Represented Buyers,  $2,618,000
10/23/2022

 

1433 Bernal Ave, Burlingame, CA 94010
Represented Buyers,  $3,900,000
08 /01/2022

 

Maravilla Lot 21, Mountain View 94043
Represented Buyers,  $1,650,000 07/14/2022
928 Wright Ave #505, Mountain View, CA 94043
Represented Buyers,  $1,100,000 05/25/2022

133 Plymouth Avenue, San Carlos 94070
Represented Buyers,  $3,907,000
05 /20/2022

 

37543 Skysail St , Newark 94560
Represented Buyers,   $1,425,000, 05/04/2022
 
355 San Petra Court Unit #2, Milpitas,  95035
Represented Buyers, $700,000, 04/08/2022
3237 Defoe Ct , Fremont 94536
Represented Buyers, $2,330,000, 03/17/2022

34732 Beret Terrace, Fremont, 94555
Represented Buyers,   $1,140,000,
03 /05/2022
2968 Moorpark Avenue,#6, San Jose 95128
Represented Sellers, Co-listed with Cathy Liu, $850,000, 02/23/2022
1667 Hyacinth Lane, San Jose, California 95124
Represented Buyers, $1,953,000, 01/19/2022

3201 Louis Road, Palo Alto 94303,94303
Represented Buyers, $3,010,000, 11/29/2021

4777 Mallard Common, Fremont 94555
Represented Sellers, $1,620,000,  10/29/2021
1132 S Sage Court, Sunnyvale,  94087
Represented Buyers, $2,512,000, 10/22/2021

735 Canyon Road, Redwood City
Represented Sellers, $1,600,000, 09/29/2021
Kensington Station, 734 Bodega Ct, Fremont, 94538
Represented Buyers, $1,276,517, 09/10/2021

4131 Orchard Court, Palo Alto,94306
Represented Buyers, $4,500,000,  09/06/2021

Capitol :  646 Toby Ct, San Jose, 95133

Represented Buyers, $1,055,666, 08/27/2021

1112 Cortez Avenue, Burlingame,  94010

Represented Buyers, 08/23/2021, $2,842,000

2263 Bailey Ave, San Jose, 95128

Represented Buyers, 07/26/2021, $960,000

4477 Laird Cir , Santa Clara 95054

Represented Buyers, 06/23/2021, $1,250,000

1005 Bryant Way,G, Sunnyvale 94087

Represented Buyers,  06/16/2021, $1,360,000

1062 Castleton Way, Sunnyvale 94087

 Represented Buyers,  $2,380,000, 05/11/2021

708 Toyon Ave, Sunnyvale, 94086
Represented Buyers, Sold for : $2,613,305

2024 Thea Circle, Mountain View 94043
Represented Buyers, $2,030,000, sold , 01/28/2021

11052 Firethorne Drive, Cupertino 95014
Represented Sellers, Co-listed with Cathy Liu
 $1,370,000; Sold,  01/06/2021

10952 Stevens Canyon Road , Cupertino, CA 95014
Represent Buyers, $2,900,000; Sold, 09/03/2020

655 Agave Terrace, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Represented Buyers, $1,588,000, sold , 07/17/2020

550 Remi Lane, San Jose 95133
Represented Buyers, $856,890, Sold, 06/18/2020

1810 Bayo Claros Cir, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
Co-buyer  agent,  Sold , $855,000,  05/28/2020

567 Apricot Way, San Jose, CA 95133
Represented buyers; $855,540, Sold,, 05/21/2020
2618 Sierra Village Court, San Jose, California 95132
Represented Buyer; Sold on 11/04/19,$875,000
37922 Spring Tide Road, Newark, CA 94560
Represented Buyer; Sold on 09/27/19,$965,000
1835 Parkview Green Circle, San Jose, California 95131
Represented Sellers; Co-listed with Cathy Liu
Sold on 08/02/19,$840,000
735 Canyon Rd, Redwood City, 94062
Represented Buyer; Sold on 05/31/19,$1,420,000

829 Folsom St Unit 606
Represented Buyer; Sold on 05/11/2019; $870,000

678 Santa Paula Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Represented Buyer; Sold on 08/31/18,$1,205,000

1422 Bobwhite Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Represented Buyers; Sold on 08/ 14/2018, $2,070,000
629 E EL Camino Real #104, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Represented Buyers; Sold on 05/ 30/2018, $1,140,000

1000 3rd Street, #720, San Francisco, CA 94107
Represented Buyer; Sold on 04/23/18,$1,025,000

118 Flynn Ave APT C, Mountain View, CA 94043
Represented Buyer; Sold on 02/23/2018, $910,000

Team Recent Listings

4396 Venice Way, San Jose 95129
Sold: 1,655,000
2924 Via Torino, Santa Clara, California 95051
Sold: 1,520,000

2483 Beechwood Avenue, San Jose 95128
Sold: 1,550,000

2958 Crystal Creek Drive, San Jose, 95133
Sold For $1,500,000

4186 Hamilton Park Drive, San Jose,  95130
Sold For $1,670,000

139 Frederick Court, Mountain View 94043
Sold For $1,390,000

377 Charles Morris Ter, Sunnyvale 94085
Sold For $1,541,000

11052 Firethorne Drive, Cupertino 95014
Sold For $1,370,000

22192 Bitter Oak Street, Cupertino,  95014
Sold for $1,300,000

10232 Danube Drive, Cupertino,  95014
Sold For &1,135,000

891 Rubis Drive, Sunnyvale, 94087
Sold For $2,$2,380,000

4139 Thain Way, Palo Alto, California 94306
Sold for $1,800,000

 

972 Kiely Blvd Unit #A, Santa Clara, 95051
Sold for $728,000

10963 Sweet Oak Street, Cupertino, 95014
Sold for $1,600,000

 

 

 

2585 El Camino Real #207, Santa Clara, 95051
Sold for $980,000

 

We had a terrific experience working with Kate in purchasing our home. Kate truly puts her client's best interest at heart, which may sound like a given but is really not always the case out there with other agents. She was extremely patient throughout this multi-month process and very prompt in keeping us in the loop. Her biggest strength is identifying potential risks of properties that we are interested in buying. She flags issues such as cracks on the wall, uneven floors, or poor roof conditions. She also goes through inspection reports with us in great detail and encourages us to follow up with inspectors on issues that she thinks can be problematic down the road. For unexperienced buyers like us, we need an agent who is nitpicking and not afraid of pointing out flaws, as opposed to agents who just wants to seal the deal and move on to the next opportunity.

-- C Pai,  San Jose, 07/2023

Kate did amazing job helping us buying our first home. She is definitely professional and patient. She helped us find the best house, sending offers and close the transaction. And we were able to move into our first house in merely less than 3 months.

--Sherly , Fremont, 09/2023

Kate helped us buy a single family home in the peninsula. She is great throughout the process, almost as if she's buying the home for herself. We weren't quite sure about what home we wanted at the beginning, she's very patient and responsive at the same time. She is knowledgable, always points out any potential issues that we would otherwise overlook. She is a great negotiator and strives for buyer's interests. Communication has been smooth and effective. I would recommend Kate to any home buyers!

-- Z W, San Carlos, 07/2022

Just completed a house purchase with Kate’s help so want to share the feedback. Overall, Kate is very professional, capable, proactive, and reliable. Her performance really exceeded my expectations. Before the first meeting with Kate, we chatted about our need and preferences of the new house, based on which she proposed a handful of most suitable communities. She showed thorough understanding and experience on house market and living styles in the Bay Area so she can pinpoint our targets, which saved us tons of time. Efficiency is one thing I want to highlight here especially when my work itself is very busy. Time is money and inefficiency not only means missing the opportunity of a perfect house, but also means losing money in nowadays house market. When we met in houses, Kate guided us with her own insightful opinions, unlike some other mediocre agents who only push buyers to buy. She pointed out pros and cons, identified the value behind upgrades, provided heads-up for issues that got usually neglected, and emphasized future potentials. House is one type of investment (although we were buying our primary residence) and she did help advice from investor’s perspective and clarified the trade-offs. When I was hesitant about the overall market trend, it was she who helped me make the right decision. After the open house, Kate proactively followed up and negotiated with seller agent, even before we asked her. Can’t wait to say that she eventually managed to get us a great deal after 3 rounds of negotiations. In each round, she analyzed the situation and proposed the price to counter back. This negotiation capability is an art that I believe is her obvious and unique strength and one of important reasons to work with her. Without her, we would’ve spent a lot more to get the same house. On the other hand, loan. It was not smooth. She patiently and diligently helped us communicate with different loan agents and the seller agent to get the loan run through. Our loan amount was huge so we didn’t have a lot choices. There was once an issue with the first loan work when the loan contingency was about to end. Fortunately, Kate immediately helped us find a new loan agent who had done a purchase loan recently in the same community with the high loan amount. Meanwhile, Kate also persuaded the seller agent to extend the loan contingency. This is a perfect example to show how good Kate is. Now we’ve moved in and are very satisfied with the house purchase with Kate. Would recommend Kate to every house buyer.

-- Ethan H, Mountain View 03/2021

Kate is our buyer agent and helped us secure our dream house in an utterly crazy market - history will show that for Sunnyvale, California in the first half of Year 2021. Kate is quite approachable, energetic and works efficiently. In a span of 1.5 months, we worked together on multiple offers before our last one is eventually accepted. In all cases, Kate has demonstrably lived by her career motto: "treat client's need and purchase as my own". Besides showing great attention to detail, being there and being knowledgeable in target property and location, etc, Kate just understands buyer. She gets the hope, nervousness, frustration and despair of buyers going through losing bidding wars, wanting to quit, deciding to fight on ... She never pushes buyer, but before and after presenting an offer, she goes great, great extent, on her own accord, to communicate with the seller side, to keep her buyer firmly on seller's radar, to understand & extract seller expectation, and to establish that kind of relationship that makes her buyer stand out even if the offer may not be the highest .... We have worked with 3 agents in the past, and we heard stories from friends about their agents. In our opinion, none came even close to Kate. We really couldn't recommend her enough.

-- H Locker, Sunnyvale ,06/2021

Kate is very experienced and professional. She helped us find our dream home, and we trusted her and we felt we were in good hands. The whole process is smooth and pleasant. She is a very nice person, she would think ahead for us, and she messaged/called back in time. We highly recommend her.

-- liz1314li1314, Sunnyvale ,09/2020

Kate is our agent. Kate helped us to buy an SFH at Sunnyvale. Kate is very patient with our search. We were not really clear about what kind of place to buy at the beginning. We were constantly juggling with many different factors ( location, price, commute and school areas). She listened to our  thoughts carefully. She did not rush us into decisions. She showed us many different properties. After seeing many different places, we were finally sure about what we want. Kate is very professional. She prepared the route and profiles of the houses we were going to see that weekend. She let us know the community, schools in the surrounding areas. During biding, she provided us with comps of houses nearby and a range of prices that we should aim for. As first-time home buyers, we have all sorts of questions beyond the house itself. Kate helped us with all these questions (loan, home remodeling and property tax) and provided us with a lot of valuable information

-- B W, Sunnyvale, 08/2018

We were fortunate to work with Kate when buying our first house. She was very resourceful and patient making the whole new for us process very smooth and relatively painless. Kate was super diligent and always was able to find the answers for various aspects of different properties we considered  and even arrange expert opinion at a critical time. I hear the stories about some real estate agents pushing buyers to make offers, but Kate is not one of them. She always made sure we had all the important info to make an informed decision and at the same time knew when we needed to act quickly, so it was a nice balance without being too stressful and overwhelming. She worked tirelessly day and night and was at all times responsive and very easy to communicate. We are very happy with our new house and can't thank Kate enough. Very positive experience, highly recommend!!!

--Lana K, Redwood City, 07/2019

非常感谢Kate的帮忙,帮我们买中了在Sunnyvale心仪的房子,这次并不是我们第一次买房,对于我们这样的客户,有了一些经验,也有了更多的要求,在和我们打交道的买房经纪人中,不乏经验丰富,不乏言辞敏锐,不乏圈子广泛,但最后还是选择了她,事实证明,这是正确的选择,因为她的专业,真诚,执着和细心。

- 专业:Kate 对于南湾的房子非常熟悉,她总是运用历史数据,近期成交数据,房子的现场情况来评估价格。非常熟悉房子的买卖过程,以及涉及其中的各种文件的签署和提交。她会综合各种情况,理智并且具有远见地提供意见甚至是决策,这需要非常专业的思考和成熟的判断。

- 真诚:就如她的签名一样:“像买卖自己房子一样对待客户的买房卖房需求”,她真的就是这样做的。在每一次砍价中,在每一次与卖家陶瓷中,在每一次帮我们精心策划中,都看到了她的诚意。绝不会push我们迅速出价,也绝不会push我们出高价。

- 执着:我们看房看了很久,其中有段时间我们都有点放弃了,但Kate从未放弃,她一直帮我们观察市场,不管是宏观市场,还是适用于我们的价格范围的特殊地段的市场,她都一直研究着市场的变化,观察成交情况,一直给我们发送房屋信息,市场利好和利率信息等等。因为她的执着,我们才最终买定房子。

- 细心:像房产交易这样复杂的过程,对于买房代理人的要求就非常地高,特别是细致入微地做好每一步骤,按时成交,按时办好贷款等。Kate做好了买卖前后的每一步,细心检查房屋质量,细心阅读房屋报告,细心准备出价文书,细心办理房屋交接和后续贷款等事宜,让我们非常轻松和感觉到安全可靠。

总体来说,与Kate的合作,是我们最满意的一次买房经历。若果下次买卖房,我们还会继续找她。

--Iris Wu, Sunnyvale, 08/2018

Kate did an excellent job representing us and consistently showed her professionalism during our purchase experience. After knowing we are the first time house buyer, she patiently shared with us all the key details that we should look when purchasing a house. She also helped us make the budget plan after knowing our financial situation and NEVER pushed us once for purchasing a house that is beyond our reach. She not only accompanied us visiting each house we are interested and helped us examine all the details thoroughly (also sharing with us her profound knowledge about checking out housing), but also patiently answered our numerous questions about housing (some are really dumb as we are first-time purchasers and she is very nice and answers every question even with detailed elaboration if applicable). There is no word that can show our gratitude to her. We will DEFINITELY recommend all our friends to her for purchasing a house, and of course get her again for our future purchase. With her on your side, as a buyer, you will get the professional elaboration on housing details, detailed explanation and the suitable suggestions to handle each reported issue, stay calm and patient for the market and understand better and close the gap between your dream house and the practical target we can get based on our budget. Kate also recommended a lot of her long-term collaborated friends in this area for future service after house purchase. All of them are reliable and fairly priced. It is a very smooth journey for us with Kate, from the beginning of searching all the way to the house decoration/flooring/painting after the purchase. I will give 10/10 for Kate, she is the dream agent for house buyer, particularly for the new buyers.

-- C Wang,  San Jose, 02/2024

Kate is an extremely capable realty agent. When touring houses with her, she can get the pros and cons of the target property quickly and thoroughly. Before submitting the purchase offer, she can analyze the disclosure and inspection reports in detail. And most importantly, she can follow up with the listing agent closely to get a good idea of pricing. With her persistent efforts, we managed to get a good deal in Palo Alto. It is very hard to find a deal in Palo Alto. The listing agent and seller are tough and painful to deal with. I believe many other buyer agents have tried but given up. I feel thankful that Kate helped us out.

-- W Liu,  San Jose, 02/2022

Kate did a great job assisting with us on purchasing our single family home. She's knowledgeable and very responsive. She has been very transparent during the the negotiation process with the buyer and provided instrumental guidance during the home-buying process in the competitive and confusing bay area housing market. Highly recommend!

--K Cai, San Jose, 12/2022

Kate is absolutely a professional, responsible, and patient agent. This year she helped us both sell and buy houses and we really enjoy and appreciate the whole process! Especially, it's our first time selling a house, many things are new to us but Kate helped us go through all the steps including contacting contractors, gardeners, staging, and photography. We even couldn't believe that's the house we've been there for many years right before listing - everything was beautiful, clean and new. We believe without Kate's help it won't be sold at a good price. We strongly recommend Kate if you need to buy or sell houses.

--Zuer, Palo Alto, 12/2021

One of my friends recommended Kate to us and Kate is a very capable and reliable agent based to our home buying experience with her. Kate always pointed out the pros and cons of a listing when doing the house tour and went over the inspection reports with us every time before we submitting the offer. Kate never pushed us to offer and always try to provide the good bidding strategy based on the comps and the info Kate got from listing agents. Even after we were in contract, Kate also tried her best to communicate with listing agent, loan agent, escrow and appraisal officer to make sure everything is on track before closing. What Kate did really make our first time house buying process easier. We will highly recommend her.

--Victor Li, Burlingame, 12/2021

It's been a great pleasure working with Kate Cao on our recent house purchasing. Kate has provided us the quality professional service, market insights and customized advices that needed to make the stressful house buying process a pleasant experience.

Kate is customer obsessed. In the very beginning, we were a bit unclear about our needs for the next house. We kept changing our requirements in locations, built years, square footage, etc. However, Kate was patiently identifying the houses on the market that might work for us and took us to tour every one of them. For each house we toured, she offered her own insights and suggestions which has greatly helped us identifying our core requirements along the way. She never pushed us to rush into presenting an offer to the house we are not 100% sure. This eventually helped us bought a house that we are extremly satisfied with.

Kate is biased for action and delivers results. Given the competitive market, we often need to tour a house in some unreasonable time frames, Kate always accommodate our asks and schedules, and tried her best to made it happen. Also, she played a key role in our house closing when the bank messed up their own schedule badly. She carefully coordinate different parties (seller, bank, title company) and magically pulled the closing date to the originally planned one. This saved us so much troubles in rescheduling our rental, moving company, etc.

Overall, Kate is a great realtor who will always treat your house buying goal as hers. She is exceptionally customer obsessed with a relentless focus on delivering results. I highly recommend Kate.

--N Z, Sunnyvale, 07/2021

We tried several agents for buying house. Finally we go for Kate. Here is what Kate is different from other agents which I think is most valuable. She will go into the detail information of the house which you are interested, such as if close to rail, close to gas line, or leak; go for detail ranking of school, such as math; go into the price of the house which sold recently, even she will suggest you a range of the price of the house base on her analysis, not that many agents will do this. She is trying her best to buy you a house as she is buying this house for herself, she don't want you to pay more for it. Last but not least important, she is active and warm heart for our buying house, she even work very late at night to try to get the best/prompt result.

--C Wu, Cupertino, 11/2020

Kate is amazing! We started to “not so seriously” look for a home on April, and that was how we met Kate. She patiently walked us through house buying processes and explained every step. Since we were not so active on buying market at the time, she respected us and followed our pace. She sent new postings that fit our needs without pushing us at all. Whenever we had questions, she responsed us as soon as she can. When we find something interested, she toured open houses with us and did market researches not only for the houses but also houses around. As a first time home buyer, we know little about the market. We had to continuously change our expectations. She has always been beyond patient and helpful. We had multiple offers without luck, she never complained a word. During our last offer, her professional follow ups with listing agent (as during every other offer) finally got us a new home. It has been 5 months since we started looking. She had been wonderful, but she did not stop there. She made sure our closing as smooth as possible, even followed up with us after closing. We were so blessed to have Kate as our buyer agent!

--D S, San Jose, 12/2019

I am very happy to have worked with Kate. She helped me purchase a new construction condo. As a first-time buyer, I did not have experience of buying a home and Kate walked me through the entire process in detail and was very patient about my questions. During our interaction, I found Kate was  smart, passionate and very care about the customer. I could feel her empathy during our communication in terms of she always thought at my position before she gave me advice. Before I signed contract, she even spent a lot of time reviewing the whole contract package to make sure there was no surprise and I have all the information I needed before I actually make decision. She also communicated with sales agent proactively to communicate my concern and try her best to solve that. I am happy with my future home and I would recommend Kate to everyone for her professionalism!

-- Thomas Lin, San Francisco, 04/2018

Kate Cao

Local Bay Areal Real Estate Realtor

湾区/硅谷房地产经纪人
Service Area: Santa Clara County, San Mateo County and Alameda County
Email: katecaorealtor@gmail.com
Phone:408-507-5556
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