theFrontSteps – San Francisco

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Entries for July, 2010

Pocket Listing. Not On MLS. Buyer In Need. No Problem. PocketListings.net Launches Nationwide!

Although you might think theFrontSteps has been completely sleeping these past months, you probably forgot we’ve been busy building a place for real estate agents to post the thousands and thousands of pocket listings they have throughout the year. Not only can they post pocket listings available to be sold, but post they have buyers [...]

Zillow’s Zestimates Rubbing You Wrong Too? Vent!

From a reader: Average condos in SF are up 4.9% in the past year. I am happy for everyone who owns one, but I have a problem with the means of estimating a condo’s value and that is via Zillow. I won’t waste your time telling me to ignore Zillow, as I would like to [...]

Thought you were Pacific Heights? Uh, uh! You’re Cow Hollow now, bitch!

Just when you thought you had it dialed, those darned Realtors go screwing with the neighborhoods. “The SFAR MLS will be rolling out a significantly revised version of its District/Subdistrict map during the evening of August 10, 2010. Boundary Changes: · Dividing line between 7b (Pacific Heights) and 7d (Cow Hollow) jogs south for one [...]