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Bay Area Housing Market Is “Absolute Madness”, Says Redfin CEO

-Maximum Overbid Of The Week: $401,000 Over -Traina’s New $35,000,000 Purchase [theFrontSteps]

Thinking Of Selling Your Property? Read This First

Sellers, it’s time. We need your inventory, and look how happy you could be! Alex thanks for selling my home as quickly and painless as possible at a price way beyond my expectation! I especially liked that you provided expert advice/service from staging, lighting and photography to make this a success. Using [electronic signature solutions] [...]

Hey Buyers! Turns Out There’s More Inventory Than You Thought

Have a look at what hit our email in the past couple months, and the companies heavily marketing “pocket listings”, “off market” property, or “not on MLS” opportunities. You, the buyer, would probably like to know about these opportunities, wouldn’t you? Well…you can’t. Not until these brokerages wake up and join the year 2013, move [...]

Climb Real Estate & PocketListings.net Join To Bring You More Buying And Selling Opportunity

Pocket listings, “not on MLS” listings, “off market” property for sale, you’ve heard it all. They exist…in droves. Every single (yes, every single) brokerage has them, every single real estate agent would love to know about them, and the public is becoming more aware of them. They’ve been a part of our industry for decades, [...]

Buying A Home In San Francisco – Step 5 And Beyond: Depends On How Step 4 Goes

There is one guarantee after writing an offer on a property in San Francisco, and that is there is no guarantee you’ll get the property. With multiple offers all too common, sellers holding the upper hand, extremely low inventory, and thousands of buyers in the market, writing an offer is only part of the property [...]

Buying A Home In San Francisco – Step 2: Get New Listings Fed To You Automatically

Yesterday, we educated you on the first and most important step in the San Francisco home buying process, so today we’re moving on… Step 2 – Get New Listings Fed To You Automatically (via Email or Text) Our market moves fast, and so must you. You might have thought the next step would be to [...]

“Off Market” Real Estate Is More On Target Than Ever

The Advantage: The Vision: The Numbers: The Success: The Destination: PocketListings.net Follow the PocketListings.net Blog to stay informed

San Francisco Real Estate Most Recent Sales And New Listings

We all know where to go to find new listings, and we all love to check them out, but what all of you homeowners (and buyers) REALLY love is knowing what the home down the street sold for. Right? For that, I bring you the same thing I have for the past 10 years…sfnewsletter and [...]

The Facebook IPO And San Francisco Real Estate…Birds Of A Feather

Our friends over at Movoto recently published a blog article about how the Facebook IPO will create at least $1 Billion in Bay Area property value, and they asked me to share it with you, so I am. There is certainly a TON of hype surrounding Facebook’s IPO, and with good reason. Everybody likes to [...]

Sorry Smith, Nguyen Wins. Lee A Close Second. Garcia In Third.

Top 10 California Home Buyer Surnames: Excellent and relevant data C.A.R! I’m gonna go get me a mailing list of Nguyens, Lees, and Chens, and sell me some houses! The complete report is below (in PowerPoint). Have a ball with the data. I did. Buyers be warned. Instead of being asked for proof of funds, [...]