theFrontSteps – San Francisco

If you’re considering buying in San Francisco, unfortunately it’s still difficult. We’re facing what Movoto Real Estate likes to call one huge housing bubble, with numbers falling across the board for potential home buyers. (A similar thing is also happening in nearby San Jose.) The bubble’s presence translates to a number of things–none of them [...]

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San Francisco Housing Market Accelerates The spring home-buying season is well underway in San Francisco, as historically low interest rates and a limited supply of homes for sale have prompted nascent home buyers to pull the trigger. Cash transactions, competitive bidding and multiple offers are once again commonplace throughout the city. Single-Family Home Sales The [...]

From the source: The San Francisco housing market continued to show promising signs of recovery through October 2009. Pending single family home sales jumped to 271 homes in October 2009, which represents a 30% increase in the number of pending sales month over month and a 58% increase year over year. Although greater scrutiny in [...]

From a reader who’s email says, “The housing crisis summed up in one house in Palm Springs”: Check this out – from NPR’s Plante Money exercises: Twitter Tweet 1 for this info on one Palm Springs House: Date           Event           Price            Appreciation            Source Apr 30, 2009   Sold      $32,500    [...]

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We’ve been getting a lot of requests lately to run comparable property reports for homeowners looking to reduce their property taxes, and having to fight an uphill battle against the city proving their case that our market has, in fact, declined on more levels than one. Here is a little bit of information for San [...]

Woah! Where the hell has theFrontSteps been? A few things…I did, in fact, have a birthday (29 for those wondering) and I’ve been slammed with real estate. Thank goodness for the people behind theFrontSteps. This graph again from Misha Weidman: This is median prices, and SINGLE FAMILY HOMES ONLY. If this isn’t ammo for the [...]

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From rereport.com: San Francisco Home & Condo Sales Down Sharply in January Sales of single-family, re-sale homes and condos fell into double-digit territory last month. The 81 homes and 60 condos sold set record lows since we’ve been keeping track: January 2000. San Francisco sales of single-family, re-sale homes dropped 38.2% from December, and were [...]