Living inside a public park is something you don’t see every day. In fact, 1925 Gough is the only privately-owned building sitting right inside Lafayette Park, giving it some serious bragging rights. You would think that kind of address writes its own check. Apparently, the market had other ideas… This unit spent 305 days trying … Continue reading A Great Deal in Pacific Heights: Unit Sells for $420,000 Under Asking
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Maximum Overbid of the Week: Pacific Heights Condo Sells for $200,000 Over Asking
Here is another overbid in San Francisco to keep on your radar. The condo at 2539 Clay Street #1 just closed for $1,300,000, which is a solid $200,000 over the asking price… and it only took 13 days to get there. The listing agent noted that the home “oozes” character. We generally prefer our real … Continue reading Maximum Overbid of the Week: Pacific Heights Condo Sells for $200,000 Over Asking
A $495,000 Underbid in Cole Valley
We spend a lot of time on this blog talking about insane overbids, but that’s not the whole story of the San Francisco market. I’ve always believed in sharing the data most agents won’t. Case in point: 1187 Stanyan Street, a large, 5-bed, 4,000 sq ft modern home in Cole Valley. It hit the market … Continue reading A $495,000 Underbid in Cole Valley
A Significant Price Cut on the Edge of Pacific Heights
In a market often defined by intense competition and prices soaring over asking, it’s worth paying attention when a property sells for a considerable amount under its initial price. That’s precisely what happened with the recently closed triplex at 1910 Baker St., located where Pacific Heights meets Presidio Heights. The property first came on the market with … Continue reading A Significant Price Cut on the Edge of Pacific Heights
Maximum Overbid of the Week | Pacific Heights Home Sells $525,000 Over Asking
Yet another jaw-dropping San Francisco real estate overbid. Take a look at 2203 Broderick St which just sold for a staggering $525,000 over asking price. This hot sale underscores the continued strength and fierce competition in the San Francisco real estate market for certain homes in certain locations. Originally listed for $2,775,000, this home fetched … Continue reading Maximum Overbid of the Week | Pacific Heights Home Sells $525,000 Over Asking
What’s More Nuts? $707,000 Over Asking, Or $9,000,000 and $13,175,000 Under Asking? It’s An Overbid and Underbid Kinda Day.
What a week for San Francisco! Insane storms, wind and rain, and then glorious sunshine to end it! Super Bowl is coming up this weekend, the 49ers are hopefully going to win, and that will make San Francisco that little bit sweeter than it already is. This week, we bear witness to one house in Noe … Continue reading What’s More Nuts? $707,000 Over Asking, Or $9,000,000 and $13,175,000 Under Asking? It’s An Overbid and Underbid Kinda Day.
Maximum Luxury: Inside The Not-Quite Record-Setting Pac Heights Penthouse of the Year
This is Maximum Luxury, a column where we nose around listings for some of the most expensive properties in San Francisco history, for no other reason than that we simply can’t resist. You probably remember the penthouse over at 2006 Washington Street, which if sold for asking would be the most expensive sale in SF … Continue reading Maximum Luxury: Inside The Not-Quite Record-Setting Pac Heights Penthouse of the Year
Maximum Luxury: Interiors To Get Lost In
This is Maximum Luxury, a weekly column obsessing over San Francisco’s most expensive homes, because sometimes you’ve just got to scratch that itch. Maximum Luxury was not necessarily designed to be a showcase of the city’s most absurdly decadent interiors, and yet that does keep coming up. For example, this week we’re dipping back into … Continue reading Maximum Luxury: Interiors To Get Lost In
San Francisco’s Most Over-the-Top Condo Wants $30M
And now, the latest in, “Does this building ever stop?” The co-op at 2006 Washington Street in Pac Heights knows how to make headlines: Basically, just keep pumping its prices higher. This is not a fool-proof system, but it works at least this well, because we’re returning to these heights once again with a new … Continue reading San Francisco’s Most Over-the-Top Condo Wants $30M
Maximum Luxury: Classic ’20s Double-Decker Penthouse Asks $15M
This is Maximum Luxury, a weekly column peering at listings for some of San Francisco’s most expensive homes, purely for the sake of indulgence. Quite honestly, there are not very many things in the world that are actually worth $15 million; if you had to spend that much money for some reason, it can be … Continue reading Maximum Luxury: Classic ’20s Double-Decker Penthouse Asks $15M
Pac Heights Mansion Sans Open Floor Plan Wants $10.5M
[Editor’s note: We have removed all photos of the interior, per request. Rest assured, it’s a lovely home.] They don’t make them like they used to, but sometimes you can still see the difference when an old home comes to market again in, well, let’s call it an unusually preserved state. To be clear, the … Continue reading Pac Heights Mansion Sans Open Floor Plan Wants $10.5M
Maximum Luxury: A Classic Pac Heights Remodel, Before & After
Maximum Luxury is a weekly column where we gander at the most expensive homes for sale in San Francisco, basically for no reason except that we want to. When 2620 Buchanan Street hit the market 90 days ago asking $18 million, it was actually the end of a long drama around this six bed, eight … Continue reading Maximum Luxury: A Classic Pac Heights Remodel, Before & After
SF’s Most Expensive UNSOLD Homes of 2021
Ambition can be a virtue, but it might take time to come into its own. We already recapped the biggest SF homes sales of 2021–or at least, we’re betting they’re the biggest sales and that a winsome surprise won’t come along in the next couple of weeks to dethrone any of them. But if that … Continue reading SF’s Most Expensive UNSOLD Homes of 2021
The Most Expensive SF Homes Sold In 2021
As a wise man once said, it ain’t over till it’s over, and with many weeks left in 2021 it could still yet turn out that we’re a bit premature with this end-of-year ranking. A last-minute sale could nab any one of these top spots before 2022 rolls around; but unless fate conspires against us … Continue reading The Most Expensive SF Homes Sold In 2021
Onetime Hills Bros Mansion Sells For Less
Hills Bros’ Coffee remains a prominent part of the San Francisco landscape thanks to their giant, inescapable waterfront sign right next to the Bay Bridge. But the coffee tycoons left their mark on the city in other places too, such as the seven bed, eight bath circa 1937 mansion at 3498 Jackson Street that just … Continue reading Onetime Hills Bros Mansion Sells For Less
Maximum Luxury: Would-Be Billionaire’s Row Mansion For $29.5 Million Faces Wrong Way
Mondays mean it’s time for Maximum Luxury, the column where we rubberneck at the most expensive homes for sale in San Francisco simply out of our own sense of sheer self-indulgence. The priciest and second-priciest listings in San Francisco right now are both vying to break records if they sell for their current asking price, … Continue reading Maximum Luxury: Would-Be Billionaire’s Row Mansion For $29.5 Million Faces Wrong Way