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
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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 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
Before & After: 1890 Castro Victorian Renovation
Sellers love to push the “r-words”: “renovate,” “refurbish,” “remodel.” Sometimes this is a practical consideration: Certain homes really could do with a new look and more modern sensibilities. Other times it’s simply a shrewd marketing move: People feel motivated to buy things that are new, and University of Western Ontario, Canada researchers find that one … Continue reading Before & After: 1890 Castro Victorian Renovation
Dolores Heights Remodel Overcomes NIMBYs, Delays For $6.85 Million Listing
We’ve seen the two-unit property at 3790 21st Street that went up for sale this week asking $6.85 million before–despite the fact that this is actually the very first time this home has ever hit the market. See, the last time this house was for sale, it was not yet this house: Previously, the lot … Continue reading Dolores Heights Remodel Overcomes NIMBYs, Delays For $6.85 Million Listing
Redesigned Pac Heights Looker Asks $8.5 Million
Say what you like about Pacific Heights–few neighborhoods are as financially unattainable for the average SF buyer–but it really does conceal some profound treasures in its storehouse. Case in point, 2250 Jackson Street, a looker that just listed with Coldwell Banker for the deeply Pac Heights price of $8.5 million. Per the ad: “Originally built … Continue reading Redesigned Pac Heights Looker Asks $8.5 Million
For Sale: 1957 11th Ave | Golden Gate Heights | $1,295,000
Nestled in the hills of Golden Gate Heights with wonderful vistas to the North/North East, surrounded by beautiful trees and a lush garden, and tastefully remodeled for the minimalist in all of us, including a painstakingly thought out master suite on the lower level, which opens to the garden, 1957 11th Ave is the home … Continue reading For Sale: 1957 11th Ave | Golden Gate Heights | $1,295,000
For Sale | Cole Valley Designer Victorian | $2,695,000
Designer remodel of a stunning Queen Anne Victorian in the heart-center of Cole Valley, 179 Carl exudes turn of the century charm with all the modern amenities.
Telegraph Hill Neighbors: “Our Opposition Is Unconditional”
Ahhh….neighbors. You love ’em. You hate ’em. You can’t live in San Francisco without ’em, and you certainly can’t easily remodel a home to today’s standards without opposition from them. Check out what just hit our inbox: If, for some reason, you can’t see the letter, which we uploaded as an image, we’ll go ahead … Continue reading Telegraph Hill Neighbors: “Our Opposition Is Unconditional”
Your Noe Valley Dream Home Awaits…Lucky Buyer
Is this your style? Been searching for the perfect Noe Valley Single Family Home that is LEED certified? Dreamt about having a say in the final touches of your down to the studs remodeled dream home? If so, I have the home for you. You, meaning unrepresented buyer. The home pictured is not what is … Continue reading Your Noe Valley Dream Home Awaits…Lucky Buyer
5 Steps To Flipping Property In San Francisco
1. Find the most unwanted wreck of a home (crack house) in a great neighborhood (Cole Valley) and buy it: 2. Document any 1964 Datsuns with a blown motor trapped in the garage for 40+ years: 3. Rip up disgusting kitchens and baths: — 4. Go to Haight Street, buy a magic wand, tap it … Continue reading 5 Steps To Flipping Property In San Francisco
Get Naked And Think About What You Could Do With Your Shower
Do you ever stand in your shower, let the water cascade down your naked body, and think about how you’d change it (your shower that is) if you could? Here are a few interesting shower ideas I’ve run across recently in my speccing adventures. Porcelanosa has a bunch of elegant looking shower pans if you … Continue reading Get Naked And Think About What You Could Do With Your Shower