theFrontSteps – San Francisco

For those that follow my writing and goings on… I haven’t had the time to write sfnewsletter this week, and now I’m off to Santa Barbara for a wedding. I will be back next week…and I even went out to do another stage of the Tour. Oh well, it will have to wait. Have a [...]

What’s that Beastie Boys lyric? Something like “Technology is wizardry, what you got is…” Anyway….we now have more real estate technology and listing search capability thanks to Roost.com, which apparently just launched its San Francisco listings. Looks to us like they partnered with Zephyr Real Estate to get those listings (smart on Zephyr’s part), and [...]

We love to get tips and comments from all y’all, so keep sending them either to thefrontsteps@gmail.com or use the contact form This from “44yo hipster”: Apparently some big time landlords were smoking a lot of crack in 2006. Apparently these NY landlords didn’t get the memo that rent control is real, and unfortunately, one [...]

As you know, I was a bit out of the loop lately in regards to San Francisco real estate, and forced to get my updates from a few other sources out there, like the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Business Times, and sooooo many other “sources”. My [...]

NUMBER OF UNITS is the equivalent of number of sales/transactions. For condominiums, each unit is treated as a sale. For 2- to 4-unit buildings, the “building” is treated as a sale. NUMBER SOLD is the number of properties in the market segment that closed escrow during the month. NUMBER FOR SALE is the number of [...]

There is just so much real estate porn out there these days it makes our head spin. Some is obviously better than others and all the “tips on buying/selling a home in this market” are just plain “tawred” (We get that right Your Mama?), but one site continues to shine and keep us coming back [...]

Where readers ask and we (the community) try to answer. “S.P.” asks if we’ve seen this property at 1278-82 Church, and would like some feedback. Anyone see it, and care to share? p.s. My photo editing capabilities are still limited until I get my new Mac dialed.

Because we know many of you don’t read the brilliant comments. From time to time we have to bring them to you (edited slightly for flow): I did not read over the hoards of posts, but i would like to leave a comment! I really do not care how much Realtors make, matters not. But, [...]

Testing out my new freedom! Or not.

Thanks to Fluj for putting up some good content while I was away! I’m (almost) ready to go with some new posts (need to figure out how to perfectly resize photos, and a few other things on this here Mac.) In the meantime, relax with a cocktail, I’ll be back at it by Monday (hopefully). [...]