Milpitas Real Estate Market Update: Summer Buyer Activity, Interest Rates & Home Pest Prevention

The local market continues to show impressive strength, and many homeowners are taking advantage of rising values and strong buyer demand.

📊Market Highlights

• Mortgage rates remained relatively stable this week.
• Buyer activity stayed strong over the Fourth of July weekend.
• A $50,000 price adjustment on a Milpitas listing generated immediate renewed interest.
• Well-priced homes continue attracting qualified buyers.
• Summer is a great time to prepare your home for a successful fall listing.

Real Estate in Milpitas

Summer is in full swing, and I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Fourth of July with family and friends. This week I’d like to share the latest mortgage interest rates, discuss what I’m seeing firsthand in the Milpitas housing market, provide a few helpful summer home maintenance tips, and update you on several exciting listings.

Current Mortgage Interest Rates

Interest rates continue to hold fairly steady.

Current rates include:

• 30-Year Fixed Conforming: 6.625%
• 15-Year Fixed Conforming: 6.00%
• 30-Year Fixed Jumbo: 6.49%
• 15-Year Fixed Jumbo: 6.125%

While the stock market continues to experience daily ups and downs, buyer demand remains surprisingly resilient. Many buyers are still motivated by life changes, growing families, and the desire to stop renting and begin building equity through homeownership.

Summer Home Pest Prevention

The latest Milpitas Post featured several helpful reminders for protecting your home during the warmer months.

A few simple preventative measures can save homeowners significant headaches:

• Eliminate standing moisture and repair plumbing leaks promptly.
• Seal cracks around foundations, doors, and windows.
• Keep gutters draining properly.
• Reduce clutter in garages and attics where pests often seek shelter.
• Maintain landscaping and trim vegetation away from the home.
• Evaluate outdoor lighting that may attract insects during the evening.

No single solution eliminates every pest, but a proactive maintenance plan goes a long way toward protecting your investment.

Open House Activity Shows Buyers Are Still Shopping

I hosted an extended Sunday open house at 1865 Big Bend Drive in Milpitas and welcomed ten buyer groups throughout the afternoon.

What stood out wasn’t simply the number of visitors—it was the quality of the buyers. Nearly everyone who attended was actively looking and ready to purchase.

One family returned after noticing our recent $50,000 price improvement. That adjustment immediately created renewed excitement and moved the home into a price range that worked for their budget.

The home is now offered at $1,548,888 and features:

• 3 bedrooms
• 2 bathrooms
• Excellent condition
• Desirable Parktown location
• Walking distance to parks and schools, including nearby Sinnott Elementary School

This is another reminder that strategic pricing remains one of the most powerful marketing tools available to sellers.

Recent Sales Activity

We’re celebrating several successful transactions.

2076 Warmwood Lane – San Jose (Berryessa)

• Listed at $1,295,000
• Closing at $1,280,000

The sellers are very pleased with the outcome.

We’re also preparing to close:

453 Taylor Drive – Milpitas

• 5 bedrooms
• 2 bathrooms
• Listed at $1,650,000
• Closing at full asking price

Receiving full price continues to demonstrate that properly prepared and correctly priced homes can perform exceptionally well.

Coming Soon in Milpitas

We’re preparing several exciting listings.

1750 Tahoe Drive

• 4 bedrooms
• 2 bathrooms
• Approximately 1,504 square feet
• Planned list price: $1,750,000

Located just behind Sinnott Elementary School, this home sits in one of Milpitas’ most desirable established neighborhoods. Comparable recent sales support our pricing strategy, giving us confidence heading into the market.

Additional listings continue moving through preparation, including homes on Edsel Drive and Monmouth Drive. These properties require final improvements and permitting before they’re ready for market, but I look forward to sharing more details soon.

Final Thoughts

Although we’re well into the summer season, the Milpitas real estate market remains active. Serious buyers are continuing their search, especially when homes are thoughtfully prepared and competitively priced.

If you’re considering selling later this year, now is an excellent time to begin planning. Preparing a home properly takes time, and getting an early start can position you for success when you’re ready to list.

As always, thank you for watching my weekly market update. I appreciate the opportunity to keep our community informed and look forward to sharing another update with you next week.

Warm regards,

Debbie Indihar Giordano
Master Brokers
Serving Milpitas and Silicon Valley
#BestRealEstateAgentinMilpitas

I look forward to sharing another update with you next week.

Give me a call, 408-945-8988, or send me an email, Giordanodj@aol.com. And of course you can always visit my website, www.DebbieGerardino.com. There’s a connect, tab me and it’ll just zoom right into me and we’ll be able to get together. I’m ready to go to work for you.

🚨If I were listing my home in 2026, this is what I’d do

5 things different than most sellers

After watching hundreds of homes sell (and just as many sit) if I had to put my own home on the market this year, here’s what I’d do differently:

1) Price it right on day one. Pricing high feels safe, but overpriced homes typically sell for less. 

2) Obsess over the first photo. Nearly every buyer meets your home on a screen. That lead photo is your thumbnail.

3) Market to one buyer, not everyone. A home that’s “for everyone” sells to no one. I’d figure out exactly who this home is for and tailor every photo, word, and showing for them.

4) Watch two numbers: Showings and offers. Showings tell me the house and price get people through the door; offers tell me the price is right to buy. The gap between the two tells me exactly what to fix.

5) Wouldn’t negotiate tired. Keeping a home spotless while you’re trying to sell is brutal, and that pressure pushes people to negotiate from “I just want this over.” Bad idea. When an offer finally lands, I’d have the data make the final decision.

A house that won’t sell isn’t a dead end. With a few strategic changes, it’ll move. It almost always does.

P.S. The best time to get it right is before you list, not after it’s sat for two months. If you’re hoping to sell this year and have no idea where to start, reply to this email.

Take a look at my listings to see our track record: https://debbiegiordano.com/FeaturedListings

Thank you

Interest Rates – Up to the minute information on the Milpitas real estate market.

Interest rates continue to hold fairly steady.

Current rates include:

• 30-Year Fixed Conforming: 6.625%
• 15-Year Fixed Conforming: 6.00%
• 30-Year Fixed Jumbo: 6.49%
• 15-Year Fixed Jumbo: 6.125%

I’ll talk about some listings, exciting new inventory I have coming up.

We’re ready to get your property ready. Give me a call 408-945-8988 or giordanodj@aol.com. Let’s talk, let’s get together and let’s see what we can do about this 2026 upcoming market. Thank you for watching.

Coming Soon! in Milpitas by Debbie Giordano Realtor Milpitas, CA

🔜1464 Edsel Drive in Milpitas. That’s not quite ready, 4 bedroom, 4 bath. 1300 square feet. $1,498,888

🔜 390 Monmouth Dr. Milpitas 5 bedroom 3 bath 1775 sq. feet $1,700,000  

🔜 Coming soon 479 Heath Dr. Milpitas 4 bedroom 2 bath Manor area! 1,328 sq. ft. They’re looking to locate out of Milpitas and that’s a four bedroom. We don’t have a price point on that one.

🔜 Coming soon 385 Monmouth Drive coming up. 4-bedroom, 2 bath, about 1,436-sq. ft., 6,000-sq. ft. lot in a nice established neighborhood. We don’t have a price on that one yet.

🔜 Coming soon Scott Creek Highlands area 2350 sq. ft. one story, 3-car garage. Setting a price soon.

✔️ Schedule an appointment to discuss getting your home ready for the market. 1-408-858-5771

I’m anxious to work for you. Call me and we’ll get an individual appointment and I’ll come see your property and do the assessment and let you know what I think we need to do to get it ready.

Call me at 408-945-8988 or visit my website, DebbieGiordano.com. There’s a Connect Me tab and you can get me directly there. So thank you for watching. 

When is the Right Time to Sell?

I don’t think you can time the season per se. Whatever looks good for your family and your family’s timing. It’s really predicated on the general economy, and we’ve had a great stock market ride in the last three months. It’s gone back up, and I know that that’s really helped bring more buyers to the table. So please don’t be shy. If you’re ready to go, you’re thinking about moving, call me, get me in to see the property. We’ll talk about what you need to do to get it prepped and get it ready to go and be ready for this great, amazing market.

💲Condominium Buy Before Sell Program

Ask about the buy-before-sell program for condos.

I’d invite you also, as we close, to go to my website. https://Debbiegiordano.com, there’s a tab that says team video. If you want to see how I work, I’ve got my team on there, my transaction coordinator, inspectors, sign people, my stagers on there, and you can see what my team encompasses and what we do to put together a package to productively list your home and get top market value for your properties, I’m ready to serve you.

If you want to get your home ready, let me know. Call for #BestRealtorinMilpitas 1-408-945-8988.

And I do look forward to speaking with you next week again.

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Closing Thoughts

Every market cycle brings opportunity when you understand what’s happening locally. If you’re considering a move this year—or just want to stay informed—I’m always here as a resource.

Debbie Indihar Giordano
Master Brokers | Milpitas & Silicon Valley
📞 408-945-8988 | 🌐 DebbieGiordano.com
#BestRealEstateAgentinMilpitas

Testimonials

We would like to express our sincerest appreciation for Debbie Giordano for her quick action on selling our house. We sincerely believe she is the best real estate broker covering the southern San Francisco Bay Area.

We currently live in Arizona and was definitely not looking forward to spending several weeks in the bay area while we fixed up our Milpitas property to sell. We have had renters in our house for the past six years.

Debbie not only took the reins on this effort, she charged full force straight into the thick of things. She managed to arrange the repairs in one week. She also staged the property and put it on the market. The house never looked good in the 35 plus years in which we lived in the house. Due to her valiant efforts, the house sold in just one week, and we received what were hoping to get out of the house.

Thank you, Debbie for all you did for us. It is truly remarkable that you pulled a rabbit out of the hat. Your efforts surpassed our greatest expectations.

Thank you again.

Steven & Charleen Stoner

7-24-2025

Thank you Debbie.

Even though you have taken the reigns on our MiIpitas house, and are driving forward with this; I just want to make it official that Charleen and I would like you to be our realtor for our Milpitas house until it is sold. We appreciate everything you have done thus far. Charleen and I were really comfortable with talking to you when you came out to our house and we look forward to a prosperous conclusion for the both of us. We will work with Melissa to get the documents signed.

Steve

6-19-2025

My brother and I knew that selling our family home with Debbie was going to give us the best experience possible. But what neither of us realized was how incredibly cutting edge she is about the Milpitas market, how networked and how committed she is to her clients. She stood by us and was alongside us every step of the way. Her passion and compassion are stellar. It is safe to say that neither of us have enjoyed going through the home sale process, but Debbie made it seamless and we will always be grateful to her and her great team for their amazing professionalism and care.
Thank you Debbie for all that you do!

Gloria Sherman Gallegos and Matt Sherman

6-22-2025

Thank you for the kind words:

We were impressed with Debbie’s familiarity of Milpitas from our very first meeting. Her knowledge of the local housing market and our neighborhood including schools and businesses made us feel very comfortable. She is on top of an everchanging market.

Debbie toured our home and gave us an honest assessment; she advised us on updating a few things that will make our home stand out from the others. She has a very good team of subcontractors to help with any upgrades or repairs that are needed. These subs are very respectful, on time and do quality work.

During this process, communication with Debbie and her team was outstanding. They kept us informed every step of the way.

Debbie has a staging team that transformed our home to maximize its appeal to buyers. This process was flawless and really showcased the home.

Working with Debbie was truly a positive experience. She worked very hard at keeping everything organized and on schedule.

We highly recommend Debbie. Her expertise, dedication and professionalism made the sale of our home enjoyable and successful.

Thank You Debbie

Matt & Karen

August 14, 2025

What Our Clients Say

Debbie assisted us in selling our family home several years ago and we were so impressed with her dedication, expertise, and friendly approach, we contacted her again when we interested in purchasing a property.

This time around was no different, Debbie’s communication was prompt and effective, keeping us informed every step of the way. She was always available to answer our questions and provided regular updates throughout the process. When unexpected issues arose during the buying process, Debbie’s problem-solving expertise shone through. She quickly found solutions making the closing process easier and less stressful for us.

We highly recommend Debbie to help with all of your home buying and/or selling needs!

~ John & Kathy ~

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