Friday, August 27th, 2010
SummerHill Homes has been based in Palo Alto for over 30 years. We have a historical tie and firm relationships that we will continue to foster to build more new homes on the Peninsula.
While we’ve always had a strong base on the Peninsula, our move to San Ramon is to recognize that we build throughout the Bay Area.
It may come as a surprise that we’ve moved to San Ramon, but we’ve actually had a satellite office in San Ramon for over 10 years. For many years, this office served principally for our land acquisition team. (more…)
Tags: new homes, new location, palo alto, peninsula, SummerHill Homes
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Family life is thriving at Satake Estates
Residents at Satake Estates just held their first annual Summer Block Party to celebrate the creation of their fabulous new neighborhood. This was a great opportunity for the current residents to meet each other and also the many future homeowners who are anxiously awaiting the completion of their new homes. (more…)
Tags: block party, Community, cul de sac, family, friendship, kids, neighborhood, new friends, new homes, new neighborhood, satake estates, success, summer, summerhill, summerhillhomes
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
As a marketer with limited time, I want to be able to click of a button push all of our listings out to Trulia, Zillow, Google Base, and more.

New Home Feed launched about a month ago and I’ve been testing it in Beta. It sure is making it easier for me to update listings to all these sites, so that we’re sure that interested homebuyers are getting up to date information. (more…)
Tags: builder, buyers, home, homebuyer, love, new homes, photos, testing, trulia, update, video
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Getting very excited to present at the social media workshop at PCBC with Mike Lyon of Do You Convert?, Sarah Yaussi of Big Builder, Jim Adams of NewHomesDirectory.com, and Jeff Click of Jeff Click Homes
Mike is pretty much the guru when it comes to social media, he hands down has more video, more posts, more, well everything social. If you haven’t checked out his site, it’s a must!
Sarah is the resident expert on blogging and she’ll be sharing all of her experience and wisdom on blogging. She’s even been gathering research on, where else?, her blog. Check out her most recent blogs preparing for the seminar getting ready for the workshop at PCBC. (more…)
Tags: builder, builders, company, email, facebook, google, home, homebuilders, marketing team, media campaign, media sources, media workshop, mike lyon, new homes, newhomesdirectory, pcbc, photos, priorities, source traffic, summer, time management, twitter, update, video
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Turn-key is defined as a spec home ready for immediate move-in, which is much of the “new” on the Peninsula.
SummerHill’s homes are different. We build brand new from the foundation up.
Depending on when you purchase your home, you get to personalize your home to get more early in the construction of the home and a bit less if you purchase later in the construction of the home. (more…)
Tags: brand new home, construction, home, homebuying process, loft, new homes, peninsula, purchase, room configurations, summerhill, turn key, turnkey
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
We celebrated our Redwood Gate park opening with a homeowner “Meet and Greet” party and it was a HUGE success.
We were thrilled at the turnout – over 50 people in attendance. Wow what a great party!
Homeowners that recently closed escrow plus homeowners excitedly waiting to move into their new homes joined in the fun.
The party started at 1pm – and… (more…)
Tags: bbq, Community, new homes, redwood gate, success, summerhill
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
Tomorrow we’re hosting a broker event at our Merimont community in San Bruno. We wanted to share some tasty treats with our broker partners. It would be easy to pick up pastries at Starbucks, where we will be getting the coffee, but that just didn’t seem as fun as supporting the local bakery. I hopped on Yelp and discovered Pastisserie Ganache in San Bruno.
Tags: Community, event, local, new homes, quiet enclave, san bruno, starbucks
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
SummerHill is pleased to announce our partnership with Passport Unlimited Corporate. This program offers exclusive access, special rewards, and benefits at top Bay Area businesses, including SummerHill Homes.
Passport Unlimited Corporate is a part of the employee perks programs at companies such as Intel, Oracle, Yahoo, HP, Genentech, AMD, Apple, Microsoft, Levi Strauss, Sony Playstation, Commonwealth Central Credit Union, Meriwest Credit Union, and Keypoint Credit Union.
“This partnership is a great fit for our company,” said Robert Freed, president and CEO of SummerHill Homes. (more…)
Tags: amd, bay area, buyers, ceo, commonwealth central credit union, corporate perks, genentech, homebuyer, keypoint credit union, levi strauss, meriwest credit union, new homes, oracle, partnership, President, quality, rewards, robert freed, sony playstation, SummerHill Homes, top employers
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
I don’t know about you all, but I feel like this year is just going so fast! Can you believe the first day of Spring is tomorrow?!? Weren’t we just recovering from baking cookies at Christmas, paying Valentines Day bills, starting a new school semester and eating corned beef (oh wait- we were just eating corned beef! Corned beef sandwich leftovers are the best!)
Well, as the season would have it, we are springing into action at Redwood Gate and Satake this week with brand new releases of homes.
Tags: bbq, Community, corned beef and cabbage, corned beef recipe, Elementary, family, first home buyers, home buyers, homebuilding, kids, los altos, los altos school district, mountain view, mountain view high school, new homes, palo alto, parents, Principal, redwood gate, sales release, satake estates, single family, st patrick, summerhill, SummerHill Homes, traditional style, Valentine, valentine s day, Valentines
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
We are proud to announce that Merimont’s elementary school, Rollingwood in San Bruno, received a 37 point improvement on the Academic Performance Index (API) scale.
Here is Principal Mikulik’s response regarding this great score improvement:
“Rollingwood School staff prides ourselves on meeting the needs of ALL children we serve. We provide differentiated instruction in the classroom as well as small group instruction and intervention after school. We teach the whole child (academic, physical, and emotional) which translates into better performance in school. I am proud of our school and offer tours for interested families.”
Check out these photos from the Rollingwood Photo Gallery- these kids are having (dare I say) FUN at school!
Tags: academic performance index, Bruno, bulldogs, Community, Elementary, family, home, kids, merimont, new homes, parents, photos, Principal, rollingwood, San, san bruno, San Francisco, school staff, schools, score improvement, single-family homes, summerhill, SummerHill Homes
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