You’ve likely seen comments on our site recently from the “Financial Samurai”, and wondered, “Is that spam?” It’s okay. We wondered the same thing, and we’ve dug a little deeper and found him to be legit. We were tipped off to one of his posts that uses Zillow to back up his claim that “Net … Continue reading Zillow Says My SF Residence Gained $300,000 In Value In Three Months!
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San Francisco Real Estate Market Values In A Fun Interactive Graph (Courtesy Of Zillow)
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 … Continue reading San Francisco Real Estate Market Values In A Fun Interactive Graph (Courtesy Of Zillow)
Thirteen Damn Good Reasons To Use PocketListings.net & Six Reasons Not To
[Editor’s Note: We posted this on our PocketListings.net BLOG, but felt it important enough to share here too.] We’ve had a few people ask us what is the point in pocket listing and at what point does a pocket listing become a “listing”? Why should they do it, or not do it, and why should … Continue reading Thirteen Damn Good Reasons To Use PocketListings.net & Six Reasons Not To
Zillow’s Zestimates Rubbing You Wrong Too? Vent!
From a reader: Average condos in SF are up 4.9% in the past year. I am happy for everyone who owns one, but I have a problem with the means of estimating a condo’s value and that is via Zillow. I won’t waste your time telling me to ignore Zillow, as I would like to … Continue reading Zillow’s Zestimates Rubbing You Wrong Too? Vent!
The Best Real Estate Blog In San Francisco!
We’ve been nominated as a candidate for the Zillow-sponsored “People’s Choice Best Real Estate Blog Award” in San Francisco. Go to Zillow, or click on the badge above and vote for theFrontSteps.com. Anyone can vote once per 24 hours. Voting ends at noon (PDT) on Aug. 25, 2010. Once the voting is over, the blog … Continue reading The Best Real Estate Blog In San Francisco!
Roost.com: Every Home For Sale… (Well almost…)
What’s that Beastie Boys lyric? Something like “Technology is wizardry, what you got is…” Anyway….we now have more real estate technology and listing search capability thanks to Roost.com, which apparently just launched its San Francisco listings. Looks to us like they partnered with Zephyr Real Estate to get those listings (smart on Zephyr’s part), and … Continue reading Roost.com: Every Home For Sale… (Well almost…)
Best of San Francisco Real Estate
So I finally got off my ass and did another post for my Examiner Column. They asked us to to a “Best of” piece, and naturally I did “Best of San Francisco Real Estate”. Here it is, verbatim: I’ve been asked to write a little column about the "Best of" San Francisco real estate, and … Continue reading Best of San Francisco Real Estate
What to do when your BFF Forecloses
From “S”: What do you do when you go to visit some close friends or extended family (people you really care about) and for convenience, meet in a restaurant. They announce they are packing and moving. You Zillow/Trulia them, and sure enough, the house just foreclosed. It’s the family house they’ve owned for many, many … Continue reading What to do when your BFF Forecloses
Zillow Ain’t Got Nothin’ On Cyberhomes, So We Got The Latter
New Year’s resolution #7: “Get the best and most accurate market statistics and data available to you 24/7 from our sidebar site.” You’ve likely noticed light posting on theFrontSteps lately. We have our reasons (yes, the surf has been good), and one of them is that we’ve been working on fulfilling our promises to our … Continue reading Zillow Ain’t Got Nothin’ On Cyberhomes, So We Got The Latter
$15,000 Homebuyer Tax Credit Trimmed To $8,000
From the Zillow Blog: Details have not yet been ironed out, but the proposed $15,000 tax credit amendment in the economic stimulus package that was sponsored by Sen. Johnny Isakson has been trimmed down to an $8000 tax credit, according to the NY Times. This is all very preliminary until the bill is actually signed, but here is … Continue reading $15,000 Homebuyer Tax Credit Trimmed To $8,000
Calling All Prospective Spelunking Home Buyers Willing To Relocate
(Not the catchiest headline ever, but hey. It’s apt. If you can come up with a better one I’ll gladly insert it.) To steal our editor’s thunder a little bit, what can 300K get ya in SF? A one bedroom TIC in the Mission? Well, out in Festus, Missouri, it’ll get you a 17,000 foot … Continue reading Calling All Prospective Spelunking Home Buyers Willing To Relocate
Neighborcity.com…Waste More Time
A reader kindly forwarded us to a “new” website called, Neighborcity and we gotta say, aren’t Trulia, and Zillow enough? We didn’t see anything on this site worth discussing that isn’t already found elsewhere. To us, this site is a complete waste of time. Focus your time on Trulia, Zillow (if you must to get … Continue reading Neighborcity.com…Waste More Time
Ask Us: Should My Agent Advertise On The Real Estate Blogs
Where readers ask, and we (the community) try to answer: Hi, We have a house in SF that’s been on the market for 3 weeks with minimal activity. Our agent is doing the traditional stuff but no presence on blogs, etc. Should she be using yours and/or other sites to market our house? What are … Continue reading Ask Us: Should My Agent Advertise On The Real Estate Blogs
Ah Zillow, You’re Still Getting All Of This Attention
We’re just going to keep our lips sealed on this and quote the email we received: I’ve come across several properties for sale where the Zillow page was not accurate. [No Way! Seriously…okay, we couldn’t resist.] I understand if the listing agent doesn’t want to “deal” with Zillow (doesn’t believe in zillow, doesn’t want the … Continue reading Ah Zillow, You’re Still Getting All Of This Attention
Redfin reboots, or at least adds a SF Bay Area Page
This is all it really takes to get on our good side, and get us to check out a site…again, “We added you to our real estate blog links because we think your site is a great place for people to read up on the SF real estate market.-Redfin” That and cocktails at any reputable … Continue reading Redfin reboots, or at least adds a SF Bay Area Page
More Real Estate Mashing…CyberHomes unveiled.
From a reader, via TechCrunch. Image below is the “Change in Estimated Home Value” (Jan-Nov 2007) for San Francisco when searching our favorite Stalefish, 2901 Broadway for $55,000,000 This is what TechCrunch had to say regarding CyberHomes entry into the field of real estate websites, the likes of which include Zillow (crap!), Trulia (good), Redfin … Continue reading More Real Estate Mashing…CyberHomes unveiled.
