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This pulled directly from the San Francisco Association of Realtors Newsletter: San Francisco’s Housing Market Continues to Strengthen Unlike Many Other Areas of the Country Falling inventory levels and strong sales activity in December, 2009, helped to drive continued improvement in San Francisco’s housing market, according to the latest Market Focus report issued jointly by [...]

We’re always keen to post content provided by our readers and colleagues, so of course we’re glad to help out “The Registry” when the Publisher asks us for a favor: Alex, I hope you are doing well. I am writing to ask a small favor. Rob Le Eace and I are working on the CRACK [...]

So we’ve heard from Realtor Economists, we’ve heard from our Association of Realtors, and looky there! Now we get to hear what Zillow thinks the real estate market is doing! Fantastic! Have a look at San Francisco Home Values: – Now have a look at San Francisco Median Sales Price (Holy Crap Batman! It looks [...]

Painful: The Commerce Department said on Wednesday housing starts dropped 10.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 529,000 units, the lowest level since April and the percentage drop was the biggest since January. Financial markets had expected starts to rise to 600,000 units. September’s housing starts were revised upwards to a 592,000 unit [...]

Is it just us, or do Realtors always feel they have to let the world know they wouldn’t for a second think about doing anything but working? Case in point, the Realtor voicemail. Try this for fun. Pick a Realtor, any Realtor (preferably a “top producer”…such a bogus title, but we won’t go there), and [...]

Are you a Realtor that at one point or another may have contacted another Realtor and now all of a sudden you get ALL of that broker’s “new listings”, “off-market opportunities”, “price reduced”, “open house”, and “won’t last” emails? Are you a principal and walked into an open house, reluctantly gave your email and now [...]

Our recent scoop on the sale of both Grand Penthomes at the Millennium Tower (one that sold to mega millionaire venture capitalist Tom Perkins) has been getting quite a bit of press lately, and oddly enough we received this email today: This is all great [referring to the sale of a ~$9,000,000 condo] I suppose, [...]

So who’s got the REAL scoop on real estate? “The housing market has decisively turned for the better. We are bouncing back,” NAR’s chief economist Lawrence Yun told reporters. (Source: SFAR Advantage Online) “Bay Area home prices spiked in the three months ending June 30, part of a national upswing that suggests to many economists [...]

We have been a bit M.I.A, but our readers certainly haven’t lost their need to send us tips. Please keep them coming! (thefrontsteps@gmail.com): I think the size of a dwelling is an important matter, especially in San Francisco. Would you start a thread? [We can try.] ‘I know my home is too small when ….’ [...]