Category Archives: single family homes

San Francisco Housing and Rental Markets: Choose a Rock or a Hard Place

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Misha

The San Francisco Association of Realtors, of which I am a member, just came out with its Market_Focus_Report for May_2012 (click to open).  If you’re a seller or landlord, the news is great:  home prices and rents are up, up, up. … Continue reading →

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Home-Spotting: Second Time Around, 285 Douglass sells for $250,000 over asking

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Misha

Explain this one to me please.   Elegant if dowdy Victorian lists for $2.349 million in September 2010 and sits there for three months with no takers.  Relists in April at $2.3 million and in contract seven days later at $250,000 … Continue reading →

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Noe Valley Back Smartly in 2010

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Misha

    After nearly two years of sharp declines, Noe Valley single family home prices recovered smartly in 2010.  Not enough, however, for anyone to claim that Noe Valley is somehow immune from market forces affecting the rest of San … Continue reading →

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What’s A Better Value in San Francisco, A Condo or a Home? (Part 2)

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Misha

In my last post, I included a chart that showed both single family homes and condos stuck in relatively narrow price ranges over the last 18 months or so.  At the end of 2010 the median price of a single … Continue reading →

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What’s a Better Value in San Francisco, A Condo or a Home? (Part 1)

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Misha

Real estate lore holds that if the market for single-family homes is doing badly, the condominium market will be doing worse.  But what about San Francisco, which is the textbook case of a supply-constrained market with high barriers to entry? … Continue reading →

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The 2010 Residential Wrap-Up: What’s goin’ on? Not much.

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Misha

Avid readers of this blog will recall that I hastily pulled my last attempt to post on this subject because of some errors in the data.  Horrors.  The errors caused 2010 to look like a much stronger year in terms … Continue reading →

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Of Mixes and Medians: Interpreting Noe’s Valley

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Misha

My last post was about the fact that Noe Valley median home prices are still down 30% from their all time highs despite a smart recovery in median home prices city-wide.  This, despite my sense that there seem to have … Continue reading →

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How Deep is Noe’s Valley?

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Misha

Judging by the number of houses I’ve seen being redone from the studs up, together with the number of homes that seem to be hitting the market at over $2 million these days, you’d think that Noe Valley real estate … Continue reading →

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Footnote on Potrero Hill: 473 Pennsylvania

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Misha

I first saw this house, advertised as a fully remodelled 4 BR, 2BA, Potrero Hill View Home,”  back in October 2009.  With its Spanish Mediterranean, sunny yellow exterior, it had curb appeal, together with terrific if industrial views over the … Continue reading →

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Is Buying a House a Good Investment?

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Misha

Among the scions of the real estate industry presenting at the Fisher Conference (see my previous post) was none other than Frank Nothaft, Chief Economist and Vice President of Freddie Mac.  He had a doozy of a slide set.  Here’s … Continue reading →

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