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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 [...]

So How Low Are Interest Rates?

Interesting tidbit about interest rates should you be considering purchasing a home. Could they get any lower? For more details you can click here. You’ll be taken to a newsletter from my go-to mortgage broker, Tm Wood. He’s good, the market is good, rates are good, the snow is (getting) good, it’s all good.

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 [...]

San Francisco Real Estate Market Update, Listings, & Sales Week Ending 3/9/2012

The latest and greatest sales data for San Francisco Real Estate: sfnewsletter/MarketTracker sales information and data is a bi-weekly publication I provide via email. As much as I try to repost it here each week, sometimes time does not allow. Please shoot me an email if you or anyone you know would like to be [...]

Cole Valley Single Family Home On Cole Street Coming Soon

I wanted to give my readers a heads up about a Cole Valley Single Family home that is going to hit MLS any day. [Update: It's on the market now. 1340 Cole Street...you had your chance to beat the pack.] I’ve been asked not to share the address or photos (thus the picture of Cole [...]

History Of Real Estate Through Time

Got this a few days ago from the folks at Movoto.com, so I thought I’d share with you. I would have shared sooner, but I was POW HUNTIN’ last week. Enjoy: The only thing they forgot was the recent launch of PocketListings.net from beta to real deal. -theFrontSteps on Pinterest

“Recommend Him Highly”-That Would Be Me :-)

What better way to start the week than with a glowing recommendation from some happy clients. For about a year we had been reading Alex’s blog and watching Redfin like hawks. Moving to SF from out of state was challenging, and though we had narrowed down our search to four or five neighborhoods, it was [...]

San Francisco Real Estate Market Update, Recent Listings, And Sales

Hello all! It’s that time. Time for your dose of market data. You can find all the recent sales for San Francisco, as well as the recent listings, and some other market data by following this link. Below is an example. Most Recent Sales  citywide in the last 21 days Address Type BR/BA/Units Parking DOM List [...]

2701 Broadway, On San Francisco’s Billionaire Row, Finds Its Billionaire Buyer

It’s big news for the Billionaires on Broadway. We have it on good intel that 2701 Broadway, a little house on the hill just down the street from the likes of the Gettys, Trainas, and Ellisons of the world (and let’s not forget a Monster of Rock), has found a buyer ponying up an undisclosed [...]