theFrontSteps – San Francisco

Where readers ask and we (the community) try to answer. Hi TFS- First…I wanted to say that I enjoy your blog…keep up the interesting stuff. I live by 24 Buena Vista Terrace and noticed that it sold recently. I remember walking through the house back in 2006 when it last sold after it was completely [...]

Surfer: Alex Martins (local SF surfer) Photo: Frank Quirarte With the official site showing “contest could happen any day”, and Surfing Magazine, confirming the Maverick’s Big Wave Surf Contest is back on for 2009, we, the little SF real estate blog, are bringing you first rumors (from very reliable sources) that the 2009 contest may [...]

It took a little while, but true to our new year’s resolutions another stage of the Tour de San Francisco (real estate) has been completed. For all of the new readers or those that might just be passing by, le Tour, as it pertains to real estate, is a look (mostly pictures) at all the [...]

Have a look at this: Yes, from time to time we all need a break from real estate, and this is truly insane!

The way an item is advertised, say, a movie, or a house, can indeed lure in the consumer. It can also amuse, annoy, or even repel. To illustrate, let’s look at Pete Hartlaub’s very funny article on movie taglines. To quote. taglines are proof that “in the minds of Hollywood marketing executives, the IQ of [...]

Asking $1,398,000, this 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car parking Marina style home at 3917 26th St “in the heart of Noe” is certainly one for the masses, so it will be interesting to see how quickly it sells. We’re fans. The difference this time around (no it wasn’t previously listed as far as we [...]

Lots of chatter (as usual) on one particular local blog regarding the continued decline of real estate, and the world for that matter. (We get it, we really do. At least they’ve chosen to beat white elephants now along with their dead horses.) What we’d like to show you is something that is still happening, [...]

We’re going to take the liberty of pulling a few quotes from this recent New York Times article about President-elect Obama’s call to action and urge our fellow San Franciscans to go out and buy a house. -’I don’t believe it’s too late to change course, but it will be if we don’t take dramatic [...]

We just wanted to remind our readers of a thread that is growing and getting read around the country, Government Unveils Hope For Homeowners (H4H) Program. There are a lot of unanswered questions in that thread and unfortunately we can’t provide much more information. If you know of any new developments along the lines of [...]

We’ve been told that this four bedroom, two and one half bath, one car parking remodeled center patio home at 1351 41st Ave @ Judah in the Outer Sunset will be either coming on the market in the next day or two, or going to auction. List price: ~$699,000. We’ve been told it might be [...]