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San Jose · Silicon Valley

The biggest financial decision of your life deserves an analyst, not a salesperson.

I’m James Kurtz, a Realtor® with Intero Real Estate Services in San Jose. I bring an MBA’s discipline to pricing, negotiation and timing, so you can see the numbers behind every decision instead of taking someone’s word for it.

Brokerage
Intero Real Estate
Office
San Jose – Silver Creek
License
DRE #02158328
Direct
(408) 921-2729

The approach

Every recommendation comes with the math behind it.

Most of what goes wrong in a Silicon Valley transaction is a pricing or timing problem dressed up as a marketing problem. A house that sits was priced on hope. An offer that loses was structured without reading the seller. A buyer who overpays never saw the comparable that mattered.

My background is finance and analysis, so that is where I start: what the recent comparable sales actually support, what the carrying cost of waiting looks like, what a contingency is worth in dollars. You get the reasoning, in writing, and then you decide.

Santa Clara Valley from the Silver Creek hills at golden hour

The Santa Clara Valley from the Silver Creek foothills.

What you get

Three things I will not compromise on.

01

A defensible number

A written pricing analysis with the comparable sales, the adjustments and the range, so the list price or the offer is a decision, not a guess.

02

Straight answers

If a remodel will not return what it costs, or your timing is wrong, I will tell you before you spend the money. I would rather lose a listing than mismanage your equity.

03

One point of contact

You work with me, start to finish. My mobile is on every page of this site and I answer it.

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About

James Kurtz, MBA

Realtor® with Intero Real Estate Services, working out of the San Jose – Silver Creek office at 5609 Silver Creek Valley Road, San Jose, CA 95138.

I chose Intero because its Silicon Valley footprint gives my clients real reach: the listing goes out through a brokerage that agents here take seriously, and I hear about the off-market conversations that never reach a portal.

Outside of the analysis, the job is mostly about being reachable and telling you the truth on a deadline. That is the standard I hold myself to on every transaction.

Where I work

San Jose, Fremont and Danville, in detail.

Silver Creek, Evergreen, Almaden Valley, Willow Glen, Fremont and Danville. Six markets that get talked about in the same breath and price nothing alike.

Home in a gated Silver Creek community
Evergreen hillside neighborhood
Almaden Valley ranch home under oaks
Willow Glen craftsman street
Fremont home on a tree-lined street
Danville home in the San Ramon Valley

Get in touch

Tell me what you are trying to do.

Whether you are twelve months out or have an offer on the table this week, a short conversation will tell you what your options actually are. No pressure and no obligation.

Mobile

(408) 921-2729

Office

(408) 574-5000

Intero San Jose – Silver Creek

5609 Silver Creek Valley Road, San Jose, CA 95138

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