$782,000 Over Asking For a House in Sunnyvale (mercurynews.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: A house in Sunnyvale just sold for close to $800,000 over its listing price. Your eyes do not deceive you: The four-bed, two-bath house -- less than 2,000 square feet -- listed for $1,688,000 and sold for $2,470,000. "I think it's the most anything has ever gone for over asking in Sunnyvale -- a record for Sunnyvale," said Dave Clark, the Keller Williams agent who represented the sellers in the deal. "We anticipated it would go for $2 million, or over $2 million. But we had no idea it would ever go for what it went for." This kind of over-bidding is known to happen farther north in cities including Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mountain View. But as those places have grown far too expensive for most buyers, future homeowners have migrated south to Sunnyvale, a once modest community that now finds itself among the Bay Area's real estate hot spots.

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[cayenne8]

The Bay Area is very ethnically diverse, and has a relatively high muslim population. There are several muslim families in my neighborhood in San Jose (Palestinian, Pakistani, Punjabi). So Syrians should fit right in.

In other news, in recent times, large, mysterious increases in purchases and shipment of ammonium nitrate have been noted for the Bay Area.