San Jose · Evergreen · Willow Glen · South Bay
I am a Realtor with Intero, out of the Willow Glen office. Most of my work is here in the South Bay, though I have closed everywhere from Hayward to San Francisco. If you are thinking about selling, start with a real number for your house. That part is free.
$11.3M closed to date / 11 homes / Santa Clara, Alameda, San Francisco and Monterey counties / $610K to $1.46M
On the market now
San Jose, CA 95121
Beautifully remodeled single family home with fresh interior paint, premium fixtures and quality appliances. A permitted 275 square foot addition creates an oversized primary suite, and a newer roof adds lasting value. Walking distance to neighborhood parks, minutes from Highway 101 and served by Chaboya Middle School.
Book a private showingFirst condos in the $600Ks, family houses in Evergreen and Willow Glen north of $1.4M, and a fair amount in between.
San Jose, CA 95136
4 bd · 3.5 ba · 2,170 sq ft
Sold Feb 2026
San Jose, CA 95128
4 bd · 4 ba · 1,787 sq ft
Sold Apr 2026
San Jose, CA 95148
3 bd · 2 ba · 1,453 sq ft
Sold Aug 2024
Hayward, CA 94544
4 bd · 3 ba · 1,770 sq ft
Sold May 2026
San Jose, CA 95136
3 bd · 2 ba · 1,506 sq ft
Sold May 2026
San Jose, CA 95125
3 bd · 3 ba · 1,620 sq ft
Sold Apr 2026
San Francisco, CA 94124
2 bd · 2 ba · 1,044 sq ft
Sold Jun 2025
San Jose, CA 95116
3 bd · 1.5 ba · 1,190 sq ft
Sold Apr 2025
San Francisco, CA 94124
2 bd · 2 ba · 970 sq ft
Sold Jul 2026A selection of recent transactions. Figures reflect the closed sales published on the Intero brokerage profile and do not represent complete production. Full sale history available on request.
Where I work
I do not price houses off a radius search. These are the pockets I am in most weeks, and what actually moves the number in each one.
Ranches and additions from the 1970s on real lots, feeding Chaboya and Silver Creek. Buyers here are usually trading up from a condo and want a yard. Sellers here often underestimate what a permitted addition is worth.
Walkable to Lincoln Avenue, older housing stock, and a price band that punishes bad prep. Paint, landscaping and photography move the number more here than almost anywhere else in the city.
Where a lot of first family houses get bought. Schools drive the searches, so listing timing against the school calendar genuinely matters.
The most misunderstood part of the city on paper. Comps a few blocks apart can be a hundred thousand dollars apart, which is why I walk them instead of pulling a radius.
I keep closing outside Santa Clara County because clients move and ask me to come with them. Bayview condos and Hayward houses in the same year is not an accident.
Outside these areas? Ask anyway. Recent closings include Hayward, San Francisco and Salinas.
Free pricing read
A written number for your house with the comps behind it, and an honest view of what is worth fixing first.
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San Jose and the Bay
First condos in the $600Ks through family houses in Evergreen and Willow Glen, plus off market where it exists.
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English and Vietnamese
Walkthroughs, offers and signing handled in Vietnamese when that is easier for you or for your parents.
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No packages, no tiers. This is the same sequence every time, and you know the number before anything is public.
Start with the numberI come out, walk the house, and send you a written pricing read using the comps that genuinely match it, not the flattering ones two streets over with a remodel yours does not have. You get the range, the reasoning, and the honest version of what your house does not have. If that number does not work for you, we stop there and I have lost an afternoon, which is fine.
Most prep advice is guesswork that spends your money. Paint and landscaping almost always pay for themselves. Kitchens almost never do at this price point. Permitted square footage, like the 275 foot addition on the Macduee listing, is worth documenting properly because appraisers will not credit what they cannot verify. I will tell you when the answer is do nothing and list it Thursday.
The photos are the showing. Buyers decide on their phone whether your house is worth a Saturday, so the listing goes out with a full professional gallery, not eight snapshots, and it syndicates across MLSListings, bridgeMLS and CRMLS so it reaches agents outside Santa Clara County. Open houses run both weekend days while the listing is fresh, because week one is when you have the most leverage you will ever have.
Price is one line of an offer. We sit down and go through contingencies, financing strength, close timing, rent back and what actually lands in your pocket after everything. The highest number on page one loses to a clean offer more often than people expect, and I will say so even when the big number is the one you want to hear.
Inspections, appraisal, repair requests, disclosures. This is where deals fall apart, so this is where I am loudest. You hear from me when something happens, not once a week on a schedule.
The goal is that nothing in the last two weeks of your sale is a surprise.
Marketing
The current listing on Macduee Way went to market with a 36 photo gallery. That is the standard, not an upgrade you pay extra for.
Buying
Some of what I closed recently was condos and townhomes under $800,000, and those are usually the clients who send me their friends. Nobody gets triaged by price here.
If you are somewhere between saving and seriously looking, the useful first conversation is not about houses. It is about what a lender will actually approve, what the monthly number looks like once HOA and taxes are in it, and what that buys in Evergreen versus Blossom Valley versus the East Side.
About
Most people I work with are selling the house they raised a family in, or buying their first place. Both are a big deal. I am licensed in California and work out of the Intero office on Meridian Avenue in Willow Glen.
My approach is not complicated. Price the house against comps that genuinely match it, not the flattering ones. Spend prep money only where the market pays it back. Photograph and market it properly. Then, when the offers come in, sit down and go through terms, financing and what actually lands in your pocket, because the highest number on page one is not always the best deal.
I speak Vietnamese, and I use it every week. For a lot of families here that makes the difference between nodding along and actually understanding what they are signing.
English and Vietnamese
I speak Vietnamese fluently and use it every week. Walkthroughs, offer conversations, disclosures and signing can all happen in Vietnamese, so nobody in your family is nodding along at a table full of paperwork they have not fully read.
Bring your parents to the appointment. That is usually who the house is really being decided by anyway.
Tiếng Việt
Tôi nói tiếng Việt. Xem nhà, thương lượng giá, giải thích giấy tờ và ký hợp đồng đều có thể làm bằng tiếng Việt, để gia đình hiểu rõ mọi điều trước khi quyết định.
Hãy gọi hoặc nhắn tin cho tôi: (408) 858-5326
No cost, no obligation, and no follow up campaign afterwards. Just the number and the comps it came from.
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Not an automated estimate off public records. I look at your house, pull the comps that match it, and send you a number you can plan around.
San Jose is home. Evergreen, Willow Glen, Blossom Valley, Cambrian, the East Side. I have also closed in Hayward, San Francisco and Salinas, so if you are moving out of the area, ask me, I have probably done it.
Yes, fluently. Walkthroughs, offers, signing, all of it can be done in Vietnamese if that is easier for you or for your parents.
Nothing. I will come out, look at the house, and send you a written number with the comps behind it. If you decide not to sell, that is fine, it happens.
No. A good chunk of what I closed last year was condos and townhomes between $610,000 and $800,000. Those deals are usually the ones people remember me for.
Text me at (408) 858-5326. I answer texts faster than email, and the form below lands on the same phone.
Call or text me. If you would rather write it out, the form goes to the same phone, and I will get back to you the same day.
Kelly Bailey is a licensed California real estate agent, DRE 02223051, affiliated with Intero Real Estate Services, 1567 Meridian Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125. Realtor® · Equal Housing Opportunity.
