Monthly Archives: October 2008

Dataquick vs MLS: why the discrepancies?

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Misha

In my October 27 blog discussing the Case-Shiller Index, I referred to Bay Area County stats from Dataquick that showed San Francisco’s median prices to be down 12.7% from a year previous (YOY) vs.  the 11.36% that I’d quoted in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Update to Halloween Horror: Did it just get scarier….??

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Misha

The day after I posted my take on the Case-Shiller Index, they came out with July’s report (they’re always trailing three month averages) showing a continuing decline in the San Francisco MSA.  Wait for it:  down 27.3% from July 2007.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Market news | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Horror Headline (just in time for Halloween): SF home prices down 24.8%!!!

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Misha

Yup, that’s right folks.  According to the well-known and well-respected Case-Shiller Index published by Standard and Poor’s, San Francisco home prices in July 2008 were down a whopping 24.8% from a year previous.  How can this be, when you read … Continue reading →

Posted in Market news | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Cool new blog with an analytical approach

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Misha

I came across a great post analyzing condo prices in Pacific Heights at TheFrontSteps.com.  Source of the article is a new blog Inside SF Real Estate, very much of the same philosophy as I believe in:  independent analysis, hard fact, … Continue reading →

Posted in Marketing | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Just How Bad Is It? (Answer: depends)

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Misha

I’ve been digging a bit deeper into the raw data that’s used to generate the beautiful graphs you can find here and which I used to generate the MLS District graphs in my blog of a few days ago. So … Continue reading →

Posted in Market news | Tagged , | 3 Comments

Big Brochures and Beautiful Pictures

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Misha

Just back from Brokers’ Tuesday Tour.  Decided to concentrate on Noe Valley today.  Brochures for even the most modest homes seem to be getting bigger and fancier.  Today, I swear I got a brochure that was bigger than the house … Continue reading →

Posted in Marketing | Tagged , | Leave a comment

What on earth does this chart mean? (Click to make it bigger)

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Misha

I was wondering how prices in various MLS Districts in San Francisco were doing relative to each other and to San Francisco as a whole so I graphed the monthly median prices of single family homes in all but the … Continue reading →

Posted in Market news | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Still Getting The New Blog Up and Running

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Misha

Please be patient on the lack of content here.  I’ve been making a concerted effort to integrate an easy-to-use blog page with the more static content on my previous website, along with the really great market data that I want … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment