theFrontSteps – San Francisco

Inner-Sunset, home to much good food, a few good bars, a few bad bars, the prohibitively expensive Andronico’s, and UCSF, will soon be home to new condos. On my block alone (9th Ave., past Moraga St.) there are two sites going up or planned to go up. One is adjacent to my deck, where I [...]

From a reader, with “love”, another view of the much talked about development on the corner of 17th & Clayton: Ahhh shucks…I can’t resist: Dear Alex, I took your advice from your recent tour and checked out Cole Valley and went up to Tank Hill and took this photo for you, because I noticed in [...]

Where readers ask and we try to answer: Can I ask your professional opinion on Cole Valley in general? I am concerned about the SF market even though it hasn’t been that bad. Not sure if another shoe will be dropping. I am not interested in selling, but am looking to buy out the other [...]

Not that you’d think I ever take a day off, I just published the newest stage of the Tour de San Francisco (real estate). This week, Parnassus/Ashbury Heights (Cole Valley). Check it out! -Tour de San Francisco (real estate) [sfnewsletter]

We stole the sfnewsletter code for their last “cocktail” issue, because they apparently kill old issues each week. Since we just linked to it and now learn it won’t be there, we pasted it here. Make sense? Happy Holidays. MARKET UPDATE Charts, Data, Trends In a nutshell, our market has definitely been hit by all [...]

by Kenny, verbatim: This post is to question a common practice in the SF market. That is the practice of intentionally leaving the lot and block numbers (apn) information out of the MLS listing, entering instead 9999999 or else intentionally running the numbers into one another so that the hyperlink won’t load. I understand why [...]