Former churches and other houses of worship can be tricky housing development prospects: They’re often located on prime residential real estate in popular neighborhoods, but they they also often need a lot of work, and in many cases are historically protected properties in SF. Because of their spacious interiors, churches-turned-condos frequently end up looking like … Continue reading Onetime Mission Church Converts For $1.55M
Category: San Francisco
What San Francisco Looked Like Right Before the Big One
This week marks the 116th anniversary of the great 1906 earthquake and fire, a disaster that, with the exception of some western-lying neighborhoods, erased the SF that had existed here for nearly 60 years and ushered in the age of, well, the city we have now. It’s no exaggeration to say that without the Big … Continue reading What San Francisco Looked Like Right Before the Big One
Maximum Overbid: From $27K to $1.65M
This week’s top overbid really is a product of another time: The two-week Parkside sale at 2626 26th Avenue listed for just under $1 million but ended up clearing $1.65 million, making the initial offer look downright naive. But maybe that’s because this true blue, two bed, one bath cottage really hasn’t been sold in … Continue reading Maximum Overbid: From $27K to $1.65M
Extremely 90s Telegraph Hill Cylinder House Asks $12.9M
Just wait until you get a load of this place. The house at 340 Lombard is five beds, six baths, and four stories; the lot is deceptively large, with the bulk of the space set far back from the street and concealed behind a curb-facing wall and gate. The best word for the design would … Continue reading Extremely 90s Telegraph Hill Cylinder House Asks $12.9M
Maximum Overbid: A Sunset Home For a Pac Heights Price
Today’s lesson: How to make $3 million in just ten easy days. Or was it actually five years? Or more than that? It depends on your perspective. Certainly the number is right: Our top overbid for the week, a four bed, three bath Outer Sunset setup at 1591 43rd Avenue closed a deal this week … Continue reading Maximum Overbid: A Sunset Home For a Pac Heights Price
Painted Ladies’ Corner Cousin Is Yours For $5.75M
Ah those Painted Ladies, there’s just no escaping them. Usually when people think of the ladies of Alamo Square they’re imagining one of six homes on Steiner Street, but there is a seventh member of the family: The larger, slightly out-of-place home at 722 Steiner Street, right on the corner. Mind you when we call … Continue reading Painted Ladies’ Corner Cousin Is Yours For $5.75M
What’s The Deal With Hearst Avenue?
Have you been to Hearst Avenue? Odds are you haven’t–or if you have, you didn’t notice. And that’s a little odd, isn’t it? First, let’s talk about the deal: 327 Hearst Avenue went on the market this week, a true blue three bed, two bath setup with an extremely cute yard and lovely curb appeal, … Continue reading What’s The Deal With Hearst Avenue?
Maximum Overbid: Where In SF Can You Find a Million-Dollar Listing?
The Bravo show Million Dollar Listing has been a consistent hit for about a decade now, but its San Francisco spin-off lasted only one season. Maybe the problem was the title: In SF, a million-dollar listing is probably selling itself short. That was the case with this week’s top overbid, a two bed, two bath … Continue reading Maximum Overbid: Where In SF Can You Find a Million-Dollar Listing?
Gen Z Renters Flock To San Francisco–For Now
The great San Francisco exodus was never quite what it was cracked up to be anyway–the truth is, the major drivers behind SF’s recent population decline were factors the death rate and stalling immigration, and less so necessarily migration out of the area. Be that as it may, the online rental platform RentCafe has it … Continue reading Gen Z Renters Flock To San Francisco–For Now
SOLD: 148 Shrader, $2.6M
Happy to have helped our wonderful clients purchase this true beauty North of the Panhandle, a three unit Edwardian building with ten-foot ceilings, which maintains its early 20th century charm and preserved period details. Two of the three units are vacant at time of sale, including a two-bed garden apartment and the top-floor owner’s flat. … Continue reading SOLD: 148 Shrader, $2.6M
Maximum Overbid: What’s a Fair Home Price Anyway?
As usual, this week’s top overbid is on the west side of town, but this time north of the park, at 287 24th Avenue in the Richmond, which managed a downright vertigo-inducing 67.25 percent overbid for this three bed, two bath, circa 1916 home. When a sale goes way, way, WAY over asking, we’re left … Continue reading Maximum Overbid: What’s a Fair Home Price Anyway?
Castro “Fixer With Potential” Cashes In For $7.3M
This is Maximum Luxury, a regular column where we indulge our primal desires by ogling San Francisco’s most expensive home listings. Very often, we’ll run headlines about San Francisco “fixers” or “teardowns” or just plain disasters listing or selling for $1 million, $2 million, and the whole room starts to spin. But do you wonder … Continue reading Castro “Fixer With Potential” Cashes In For $7.3M
Maximum Overbid: Doubling Your Money In Just Nine Short Years
San Francisco is always changing: For example, there’s the case of this week’s top overbid, a two bed, one bath Outer Sunset beach house at 2142 44th Avenue. The final sale price of more than $1.45 million is well over 162 percent of the asking price from the end of February–a mere $895K. Again, this … Continue reading Maximum Overbid: Doubling Your Money In Just Nine Short Years
Noe Valley Was SF’s Most Expensive Neighborhood In February
Housing watchers love stats and they love comparing neighborhoods, so we’re giving the people what they want: A monthly breakdown of housing demand, divvied up neighborhood by neighborhood to determine which corner of SF was the top earner, starting with February. But how do we measure demand? The obvious metric is price, but that’s not … Continue reading Noe Valley Was SF’s Most Expensive Neighborhood In February
Salesforce Equality Officer’s “Speakeasy” Industrial Loft Wants $10.9M
Welcome back to Maximum Luxury, a regular column where we pick apart San Francisco’s most expensive listings, purely out of a sense of obsessive curiosity. No bones about it, 9 Bernice Street is wild. We’re not saying that’s a bad thing; we’re not saying it’s a good thing; we’re just saying it’s an evident thing. … Continue reading Salesforce Equality Officer’s “Speakeasy” Industrial Loft Wants $10.9M
Historic Eight-Sided Russian Hill Home Pares 1/4 Off Price
Over on Instagram, we’re exploring the histories of some of San Francisco’s most famous, most beautiful, and most historically important homes. Which includes a few surprises. For example, did you know that the famed Feusier Octagon House at 1067 Green Street is for sale? Well, probably you did–it made headlines when the opulent octagon hit … Continue reading Historic Eight-Sided Russian Hill Home Pares 1/4 Off Price