San Francisco continues to be at the top of the list as the hottest real estate market according to Realtor.com: http://www.realtor.com/news/trends/the-hottest-u-s-markets-in-january-2016/ What is of particular interest is that according to this real estate website, “Our traffic, searches and listing views exhibited the January ‘pop’ we saw last year, which made for a strong spring.” I recall last January (like this year), agents wondered if the market would continue to remain hot. It appears despite what is happening with the world …
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2022 Real Trends America’s Best Real Estate Professional
Top 1.5% of 1.6 Million Agents Nationwide
Category: Buying
There are many reasons couples prevail in competition for a property and as I have mentioned before on an earlier blogpost, it is not always the highest priced offer. Sometimes, a letter, well written which tells the story of a couple and their love for each other and for the home they wish to make theirs, can make the difference. The happy couple smiling from the front porch of their Corona Heights cottage which they just closed on this past …
Just when I thought the market was slowing down and sugar plums were dancing in my head, my buyers decided to write offers. The saying goes that making offers as the holiday approaches is a good time since if a property is on the market at this time of year, the seller must be desperate and he’ll take what he can get. But, whoever said that didn’t count on the resilient SF market that is like an Energizer Bunny. In …
I am honored to have been selected once again as a Five Star Home Professional, representing an elite group of less than 2% of real estate agents in San Francisco! The award appears in the November issue of San Francisco Magazine. According to the group that sponsors the award, the research process incorporates a statistically valid sample in order to identify the professionals in the local market who score highest in overall satisfaction. This is a review by an independent …
There are some terrific homes out there that I have seen which have not come on the public market yet. This past week I saw a home that stood out in the Inner Mission which is worth seeing. It’s a 1905 San Francisco classic with three levels consisting of five bedrooms and six baths in 4635 square feet of space. It last sold exactly two years ago today on Halloween. It sold for $3,525,000 and is currently listed for $4,400,000. …
Some sellers prefer for a variety of reasons to sell their property outside of the public Multiple Listing Service, which lists properties for sale. I keep my eyes and ears open for “off market” opportunities for my buyers through my network, opportunities that are not made available to the general public. I just represented buyers who bought “off market” a panoramic view two bedroom, two bath co-op in the Russian Hill luxury building known as the Royal Towers. The photo …
In the last two weeks, a substantial number of properties have come on the market. The Broker’s Tour outlines the properties agents can view on a given Tuesday in San Francisco. It literally doubled in its number of pages from about 14, which it has hovered around this past year, to 28 pages the second week of September! My buyers who were frustrated by not finding any properties they liked suddenly jumped off the sidelines and started writing offers. One …
In early August, I wrote about what a great investment SF real estate is, which is no secret. I gave as examples three properties clients of mine were interested in and the profit I thought the sellers might receive based on my evaluation of what they might sell for. Now, all of their sales have just closed and I can give you the actual numbers which are even more astounding than my initial forecast. A Duboce Triangle 3 bedroom condo …
Here are a few things to pay attention to when looking at buying a place with parking: size of the space, tandem parking, and which spot comes with the unit. Have you ever seen what some people own as parking spaces in San Francisco – narrow garage spaces that barely fit a smart car? When buying a property, it is important, if a parking space is included, that you check out exactly what you are getting and that you test …
I recently saw three properties on Broker’s Tour in three different areas of the city – Duboce Triangle, Hayes Valley, and Russian Hill. All have offer dates this week. The interesting thing about these three properties was how much they have each appreciated, two of them in a relatively short period of time (less than 6 years) and one of them in 9 years. The Duboce Triangle 3 bedroom condo was purchased by the sellers in 2011 for $969,000. The …