Now that we got the Guns N’ Roses out of the way and coursing through the veins, let’s start this Monday with a few multi-million dollar listings here in this fabulous city of San Francisco. Kicking things off with 2500 Broadway on the corner of Steiner asking a meager $9,500,000. The description is full of … Continue reading Multi Millions On A Monday
Category: Pacific Heights
Opportunity For Fence Sitting Sellers And Desperate Buyers
Are you somebody that lives in San Francisco, has a home that is either on one level or contains an elevator, and you’ve been on the fence about selling your home? PocketListings.net has a buyer for you, they aren’t picky about their neighborhood, and they have $2,000,000 to spend. Maybe you are a resident living … Continue reading Opportunity For Fence Sitting Sellers And Desperate Buyers
San Francisco Pocket Listings, Not On MLS Opportunities, And Buyers Looking!
I’ve been resisting the urge to continually share the opportunities popping up in San Francisco on my new venture, PocketListings.net, but I can’t hold back. Here is a summary of what is going on “behind the scenes” in San Francisco real estate that we’re gradually bringing to center stage. –Thirty-three hundred square feet in Pacific … Continue reading San Francisco Pocket Listings, Not On MLS Opportunities, And Buyers Looking!
Hey San Francisco! Do You Know How Much Opportunity Is Not On MLS
We were asked a while ago to tone down our promoting of the newest, best, and fastest growing network for “off market” or more precisely termed “not on MLS” real estate opportunities, but we can only hold back so long. If you are a real estate professional, if you are a home owner on the … Continue reading Hey San Francisco! Do You Know How Much Opportunity Is Not On MLS
“One Of Only 9 Cooperative Apartments [In San Francisco]” With A Lot Of 3’s, But Missing 3 Letters (MLS)
It might not be on MLS, but this $3,395,000, 3 bed, 3 bath, 3000 square foot, Co-Op on Broadway is surely worth a nod, perhaps even a gander: Elevator service directly into unit, three bedrooms (all with their own full bathroom), library, three remodeled bathrooms, vestibule with marble floor and arched etched glass window, formal … Continue reading “One Of Only 9 Cooperative Apartments [In San Francisco]” With A Lot Of 3’s, But Missing 3 Letters (MLS)
An Off Market Match (Could Be) Made In Heaven…Or Pacific Heights
This is how it works in the world of “off market” real estate: Here we have a pocket listing in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood: Wonderful Pacific Heights Home on a tree lined street. Old World Details. Sunny back yard. Easy Walk to Union Street. 2 car garage Here we have one buyer looking for … Continue reading An Off Market Match (Could Be) Made In Heaven…Or Pacific Heights
The Grinch Who Stole Our [Reader’s] Christmas Wreath (Caught On Tape)
From our reader: Greetings, I’m looking to enlist your support in some public shaming. You can also point-out the utility of installing a video camera system during a renovation :) This Grinch stole the Christmas wreath from the front door of my house early Friday morning. She looks like a fairly put-together person, why is … Continue reading The Grinch Who Stole Our [Reader’s] Christmas Wreath (Caught On Tape)
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett Finds Buyer For His Pacific Heights Monster Den
After what must seem like an eternity (we lost track of the days on market), we’re told the metal lair on top of Pacific Heights at 2505 Divisadero (originally asking $12,500,000 now just $8,995,000…it is on top of Pacific Heights and does include a sound studio and party room built for, and occupied by, Metallica … Continue reading Metallica’s Kirk Hammett Finds Buyer For His Pacific Heights Monster Den
What To Do With Your $45,000,000 San Francisco Backyard
We’ve always said a skatepark or velodrome in the backyard of 2901 Broadway (last check it was still listed for $45,000,000) would be a most excellent idea (see red arrow). Maybe we should have Tony Hawk and crew come teach the Pacific Heights crowd a thing or two about what to do with all of … Continue reading What To Do With Your $45,000,000 San Francisco Backyard
Another Reason to Love Living Here: The Heights
Fridays are for less serious real estate topic-age, so here is a meaningless poll and a tribute to another characteristic that makes SF unique. Riding my bike through the Presidio last Saturday, I decided to cruise Presidio Heights. And oh my, the elevation- in status, I mean. It’s dizzying. The homes are palatial, complete with … Continue reading Another Reason to Love Living Here: The Heights
Update: Pool Party On Broadway! Marco….Polo….Fish Outta Water! (And Now On The Market)
[Update: Our original tip ran in May of this year, and now as “Curbed SF” reports, it’s on the market (in MLS)…with photos.] From a connected reader: Designed in 1922 by Frederick Meyer (think Bill Graham Auditorium) [2950 Broadway] is a serious presence on outer Broadway’s Gold Coast and I think the only one with … Continue reading Update: Pool Party On Broadway! Marco….Polo….Fish Outta Water! (And Now On The Market)
Stolen Thunder: 2712 Broadway In Contract, What To Do?
You gotta love when you pick up some clients in the “price is not an issue” category (thanks to this blog mind you), a good opportunity like 2712 Broadway (7 bed, 5 bath, Gold Coast Single Family Home originally asking $9,495,000, immediately reduced to $7,750,000) comes along while your clients are on vacation and unreachable, … Continue reading Stolen Thunder: 2712 Broadway In Contract, What To Do?
What Awaits Behind Those Doors? (2219 Pacific)
While everyone else is talking about the end of the world, we’re talking about opportunities (pricing aside)! (Edited for syntax.) Permits issued and complete plans available to finish this spectacular three story home in AAA Pacific Heights location. Down to studs, completely reframed, needs electrical, plumbing, floors, mechanical etc. & will be a 4900 sq … Continue reading What Awaits Behind Those Doors? (2219 Pacific)
East Bay: How Piedmont Brings Out the Worst in Me
By Home Girl, aka real-estate blogger Tracey Taylor). Go to Piedmont and you feel you have entered another world. That’s if you live in Berkeley or Oakland or anywhere else where you are a mere mortal. I suppose Piedmont is the East Bay’s equivalent to Pacific Heights. Rarefied, privileged, cocooned. The median list price here … Continue reading East Bay: How Piedmont Brings Out the Worst in Me
A Worse Punishment for Sisyphus: Policing Noise in a Metropolis
Hello out there, theFrontStep Readers! You may (or just as likely, may not) know my name from my blogs for Redfin. I’ve kindly been invited to write also for theFrontSteps, so here I am, on the steps, with my first blog. So here’s the setting: last night, 2:00am, sultry night, people walking up from the … Continue reading A Worse Punishment for Sisyphus: Policing Noise in a Metropolis
Pacific Heights in the Spotlight
As always, theFrontSteps is open to new contributors and writers joining us, so if you think you have what it takes to blog (doesn’t take much), give us a shout and let us know. This comes to us from Arrian Binnings, via his new blog Inside SF Real Estate. We found it quite good (void … Continue reading Pacific Heights in the Spotlight