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Entries for the ‘San Francisco Real Estate’ Category

San Francisco SOLD Properties And New Listings Report

San Francisco recently listed and SOLD property by neighborhood. This is the sh*t you need for house hunting and house selling. Get rid of the fluff and focus on the good stuff. Recent sales comparables. I send this out every other week. If you want to be added to the list, just holla (alexclark@gmail.com)! -sfnewsletter [...]

“No View For You!”-View Nazi

Come on people! It’s 2012! If you claim “views for miles” in your listing, at the very least, take a picture with a smartphone and upload that! I understand you want to get us in the door, but really? On MLS and no photo? Not sharing pics or details of an off market home, that’s [...]

San Francisco Real Recent Real Estate Sales And Listings

A look at the past couple of weeks of sales and listing activity for San Francisco, as well as some other real estate tid-bits to tie you over until the next issue… To be added to the list and receive this in your inbox bi-weekly, just drop me a line. I should point out, this [...]

It’s A Good Time To Sell

San Francisco Homes Selling Faster as Inventory Drops With potential home sellers feeling that the market is on the upswing and that housing prices will soon appreciate, many of them have elected to hold off listing their homes, resulting in a citywide inventory shortage. At the same time, potential home buyers fearing higher prices are [...]

West Portal Buyers Find Happiness With Me On Their Side

I’m keeping up with my New Year’s resolution to ask clients for testimonials, and I’m thrilled at how willing you all are to share! I really, really appreciate it, and I enjoy working with all of you. We were relatively new to the Bay Area and had been conducting a very haphazard and ineffective home [...]

Great Highway Remodel, Not On MLS, And Certainly A San Francisco Surfer’s Dream Home

I have word of a house, on the Great Highway at Noriega (the best sandbar on the beach right now), that is very much for sale, and very much not on MLS radar. Price hovering around $1,050,000 and $1,100,000. That is the view above, and here are the details below. As always, I am here [...]

A Prohibition Pub…In Your Family Room…How Cool Is That!

This property is located at the end (or beginning) of 18th Ave in San Francisco. It can be yours for $3,995,000, and I’d be happy to get you a tour. -5 beds, 3.75 baths, 5700 square feet, $3,995,000 [MLS]

333 Grant Avenue #501: Simply Union Square, Simply a Shopper’s Paradise, Simply A Perfect Pied-A-Terre, Simply $629,000

If you like coming to, or living in, San Francisco, and shopping is your thing, 333 Grant is quite possibly your nirvana. A chip shot away from Prada, Banana Republic, North Face, Nike, Neiman Marcus, Levi’s, Macy’s, Salvatore Ferragamo, Louis Vuitton, Apple, Burberry, Chanel, Maiden Lane, American Apparel…you name it…it’s all here, it’s all around [...]

Just Say Eichler…

Following on the heals heels (thanks for catching the spelling fail “word bitch“) of a post I did earlier today about some homes I know are available for sale, but not yet “on the market”, I present to you 76 Amber Drive, an original Eichler, in the Eichler rich zone of San Francisco’s Diamond Heights [...]

Zynga Co-Founder Mark Pincus Sells Presidio Heights Pad For $8,200,000

[Editor's note: I just realized I misspoke. The home is not in Pacific Heights, it is in Presidio Heights. Locals will know the difference, visitors might claim six of one half dozen of another. Regardless, the mistake has been acknowledged and changed.] In other news to take us to the weekend, Mark Pincus, co-founder of [...]