theFrontSteps – San Francisco

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again…it is a great time to be a buyer! (Yes, exclamation point necessary.) Donald Trump even said it on Larry King the other night (we searched for a copy of the interview, but can’t find it…help?) You can talk all you want about the the bottom not [...]

632 Prentiss initially listed for 779K, and ultimately reduced to 739K, has closed at a reported 730K. Judging from the 2004 listing and the 2008/2009 listing, it’s the same property with a nice looking paint job. The 2004 sales price was 689K, up from a 649K list price.

We get all kinds of questions in every shape and size and this one has got to rank right up top with one of the most off the wall, but we love it nonetheless and will coddle it like one of our own: Which Condo complex in the City has the nicest hallway color scheme, [...]

A little bit better, and quite the opposite of what my iPhone saw November 19th, 2008, today it was a lovely shade of green. How delightful on this St. Padraig’s Day. Tis a lovely day for a Guiness after all!

We have already made it clear that we are not calling a real estate rebound, and we’re certainly not calling the switch having been flipped, but we are telling you we’ve received multiple calls and emails regarding the prospects of us being at or near the bottom of this economic cycle. As soon as we [...]

Thanks for the nominations, theFrontSteps has been nominated for best real estate blog in the nation, now we need to win. Please take a second to head to this site and look in Zone 3. There we are. You gotta vote March Madness style, just make sure you select theFrontSteps in there somewhere. sfnewsletter was [...]

Thank you dear reader: its that time again. Check out this thread! It would be interesting to run a RE check on the following locations: JOSE ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 400 Sargent Street  San Francisco, CA 94132   ROSA PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 1501 O’Farrell Street  San Francisco, CA 94115    JOHN MUIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 380 Webster Street  [...]

Where readers ask and we (the community) try to answer: This proposed building at 430 Main / 429 Beale requires exemptions for maintaining a 45 degree angle opening to the sky in all directions from an internal courtyard … meanwhile, it would BLOCK the SINGLE 45 degree angle opening to the sky from BayCrest Towers’s [...]

We love checkin us out some sexy Realtor, but we’d love more for your nomination for best real estate blog in the Nationwide Real Estate Blog Brawl. Come on now! What other Realtor site (that’s the catch…must be run by Realtors) gives you real estate porn…for real, data galore, answers to your burning questions, the [...]

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