theFrontSteps – San Francisco

Just curious to see how up on your real estate all y’all are. Take a look at 145 Madrone, a 3 bed, 1 bath, 1920′s home in prime West Portal, asking $849,000 (offer date next Monday). By all accounts, the one single photo doesn’t do this property justice. (Come on fellow Realtors! Even if it’s [...]

I’m not a Realtor, so I’ll tell something I’m more qualified to comment on: buyers’ perspectives. For instance, I can tell you how buyers looks at a property that’s been reduced more than twice. We feel sorry for them. They’re like awkward teenage boys at their first dance, pretending to be terribly busy with their shoe laces [...]

Had you been reading theFrontSteps a while ago, June 11th to be exact, you’d have had an opportunity to pick up this developer special at 235 Broderick long before the rest. Now the cat is out of the bag, the chatter has begun, it’s on MLS (listed for exactly the same price the seller’s paid [...]

From “Fluj”: Have you been following 141 27th St? In the flats of Noe. Formerly known as Baja Noe Valley, between Guerrero and Dolores. Anyway it is a partition sale of a whole scale cosmetic fixer that needs just about everything. It was listed at $637,500 nominally before the offer date. The offers came in, [...]

We hesitate to provide the address of this property (as always to preserve privacy), but at the same time we feel it our obligation to put out to a larger audience some potential deals that might be right up your alley. Should you, or your friends, be interested in taking this property off the hands [...]

Where readers ask and we try to answer: Can you help find out if 1409 Sanchez closed? This was a total tear down and it was listed for $1.1MM. If this sold anywhere near ask, then Noe [Valley] is still hot… The status of this property is “pending” and scheduled to close in March. Make [...]

Since we were recently on the subject of Noe fixers, it’s time to start spreading a little of the insider love. We don’t have pictures, but words. If you’re interested in this place, contact us. “I have a cute off market single family fixer opportunity in Noe Valley that I wanted to pass on. The [...]

Where readers ask and we (everyone reading) try to answer: Can you guys comment or get readers to comment on 439 Clipper in Noe? Yes, it’s marketed as a fixer but the price is $699k for an Single Family Residence in Noe. I honestly didn’t think you could buy a tear-down or even a lot [...]

The history of 465 Hoffman looks something like this: Sold 03/08/2007—$1,150,000— 18.2%/yr (appreciation) 07/21/2006 —$1,035,000— 9.7%/yr 04/15/2004 —$840,000 …as a single family. The plans look something like this: …as an “Ultra-Modern designed legal 2 unit,also marketable as a magnificent 4 BR/3 bath,VIEW,single family home.” The views still look like this: …but now the price looks [...]

From our reader: “Just a FYI if you’re interested or if people want to give their opinions about this house. It should be an interesting one to watch. A house in our neighborhood [4017 Folsom] was just listed on the MLS yesterday [11/30], no for sale sign, a total dump inside and yet the house [...]