theFrontSteps – San Francisco

“After hitting a two year low in January, the median price for single-family re-sale homes rose 18.6% in March from February. Year-over-year, the median price was off for the seventh month in a row, falling 3.1%. After falling to their lowest level since January 2009 in February, home sales bounced back last month, which is [...]

  I’ve heard from multiple sources that SF real estate is, for the most part, immune to the havoc wreaked on other parts of the US. But sales at our most recent condo complexes show that happy-smile-don’t-worry line of rhetoric is about as reliable as the clown’s was in Poltergeist (Happy Halloween!).     Socketsite [...]

Debate it all you want, it’s going to continue to happen, and as long as they (the good pocket listings actually in San Francisco ) keep coming our way, we’ll keep posting them for you. — Hayes Valley 3/2 for $929,000 on Gough at Grove. Now Realtors, if you’d join sfnewsletter, we’d post your pocket [...]

We’ve been having lots of fun with the other Battles: Outer Richmond v. Outer Sunset and Pacific Heights v. Marina, so today we give you Hayes Valley or Haight Ashbury. The choice is yours. As always, we provide the data, and hope you provide the insight. Have fun. Sorry for the tech difficulties, it’s not [...]

Take note…flattery at the beginning of the paragraph grabs our attention and puts the email at the top of the list. Flattery at the end of the paragraph assures you can cut in line and get a quick response. A reader asks, [We answer]. “Hi- First off, just wanted to say that I enjoy your [...]

A weekly peak at best deck / view on the market. Deck of the Week – an unlikely spot for a phenominal private roof deck with great views – 270 Linden St # 301 While not offering “direct” access from the unit (You have to exit your front door and walk 10 stairs up), the [...]

On April 1st (now we see that someone was playing a joke on us), we posted, Why’s This Keep Happening to Me?!” and gave you our story of despair and anguish. Now we can tell you the final sales price: $1,015,000 from an asking of $899,000 on 256 Page St. in Hayes Valley. There you [...]

Here we have a 3 bed, 1.5 bath condo at 256 Page built in 1885 asking $899,000 (perhaps a little low, but that’s how you get the activity), received 4 offers on Thursday, of which we were one of them.  Our original offer was $925,000 (scared by all the media reports of a ”down” market, we [...]