theFrontSteps – San Francisco

“Hi Alex- Have I got a story for you… When I closed the deal last Friday for [removed], my new condo in a 2-unit building, I had no idea my downstairs co-owner was a self-described “sex enthusiast” who engages in loud S&M “leather sex” on a regular basis. I learned this not from the seller [...]

You know we often get stuck on the mid-century homes in and around the San Francisco Bay Area, and if you’re gonna spam us, it better be good (or at least mention mid-century or modern.) This home at 66 Everson surely fits the bill of good & mid-century. A little bit heavy on the dark [...]

Hello out there, theFrontStep Readers! You may (or just as likely, may not) know my name from my blogs for Redfin. I’ve kindly been invited to write also for theFrontSteps, so here I am, on the steps, with my first blog. So here’s the setting: last night, 2:00am, sultry night, people walking up from the [...]

Wondering where we’ve been all day? Wonder no more, check out sfnewsletter’s Tour de San Francisco (real estate) and join us in Glen Park. -sfnewsletter -tdsf.blogspot.com [sfnewsletter's tour de San Francisco (real estate)]

We’re going to ask for your undivided attention on this one, as what happened is a bit cloudy , to say the least. Ready? From what we can tell…Last sold in September ’06 for $1,275,000. Listed in July ’07 for $1,475,000. Re-listed in August ’07 for $1,550,000. Neither time did it sell. Re-listed September ’07 [...]

We give you a reader’s un-edited [okay, maybe slightly edited] letter to the editor: I just saw your site for the first time! Where have I been? I am really interested in SF real estate, but from a purely looking-into-other-people’s-houses-and-fantasizing-about-what-their-lives-must-be-like perspective. My husband and I sold our flat in Noe Valley last summer. It was [...]

The teensy weensy 790 square foot “condo alternative” at 99 Surrey in Glen Park that had all the blogs abuzz, has sold. Asking $599,000 sold for $573,000 or $725/square foot. It did also have “RH-2 lot with renderings of contemporary 2 unit building with parking”, so we’re thinking we’ll be hearing about this in a [...]