NOPNA Is In The House
The North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association (NOPNA) announces “the first of a series of Community Meetings to discuss the Future of the Lower Divisadero Commercial District (approximately between Haight and…
Inconceivable!
The listing for 66 Cleary Court #708 reminds us of that immortal quote from Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride: “You keep using that word. I do not think it…
2967 Pine Street: New Broker, New Price
It might be listed as “On Tour as New”, but we know better. 2967 Pine Street is back on the market with a new broker and a new price. Apparently…
We’re Still Not Moving To Texas
Local Market Monitor, a real-estate market research provider, estimates that the San Francisco/Oakland real estate market is overvalued by 53%. “The level of over-valuation matters in three ways, according to…
Declining Sales (And Prices) In December
According to DataQuick and the Chronicle, Bay Area single-family home sales were down 15.5% compared to December 2004 and the median sales price dropped 3.5% as compared to November 2005.…
Broker’s Index Says…Buyers Market In Marin
Real estate broker Nate Sumner developed The MARKET HEAT Index™ to track “the intensity of buyer competition for listed residential properties.” The Index is derived by “adding the number of…
Is Silicon Valley Once Again Leading The Way?
From the Realty Times: However, a growing number of buyers who purchased homes at peak price periods in 2005 may now be living in homes worth tens of thousands of…
Charles Schwab Says…
…especially when you’ve been tapping into a home equity line of credit to finance your lifestyle (i.e. a plasma, BMW, and dinner at Michael Mina), and you purchased the house…
On Tour as Repeat
Buyers rejoice. Home inventories are once again on the rise as sellers and agents re-list properties that failed to sell last year and which had been withdrawn from the market…
Soros Speaks
Last November we called the top of the San Francisco housing market. Two months later George Soros calls the top of the US housing bubble. “Soros said he believed the…