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2019
Home sales in San Francisco - a detailed look at Q1 and Q2, current inventory, and expected in Q3 and @Q4Compact San Francisco, bordered by water on 3 sides (the pale blue in the first photo) is divided into 10 real estate districts. Each district behaves differently in the market, both in price ...
08/28/2019
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"The fog comes onlittle cat feet. It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on."......Carl Sandburg One thing synonymous with San Francisco is....fog!Fog here even has a name -- Karl the Fog -- and August is often referred to as "Fogust." Poets write about the fog, and s...
08/27/2019
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What, one might ask, is Pianfrancisco? The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, in conjunction with PianFrancisco, Art in the Parks will be putting pianos in one of San Francisco's oldest and most iconic buildings, Fort Point. Fort Point, nestled underneath the Golden Gate Bridge at the south ...
08/23/2019
Four weeks ago I previewed 3 Edwardian duplexes in San Francisco. I picked these particular three since they are located near a property for which I am preparing a comparative market analysis, and because of: the similarity in size and age to the subject property the degree of updating, and the o...
08/21/2019
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Sitting at the tip of a peninsula, San Francisco is surrounded on three sides by water. At the west edge is the Pacific Ocean stretching from the Cliff House south to Fort Funston. Ocean Beach with it's miles of sandy beach is here to enjoy whether you are a surfer, a running, a dog walker or sim...
08/18/2019
More great advice and food for thought from Rob Spinosa. How many of our clients and friends, or perhaps ourselves, can benefit from a refi? How a Refinance Can Drive Down Your Monthly Expenses While all real estate may be local, so too is it true that one homeowner, confronted with the opportu...
08/15/2019
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We've long heard that home ownership is out of reach for many in the Bay Area, and this report about prices, affordability and monthly cost will do nothing to change that opinion. But there are steps one can take instead of giving up.Gathering data from the California Association of Realtors, Com...
08/14/2019
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Today's the day Patricia Feager, MBA, CRS, GRI,MRP crossed the threshold and has earned 2,000,000 Active Rain points. What does that tell us about Patricia? she is tenacious and consistent she has the heart of a giver she is knowledgeable about her community she has demonstrated her knowledge o...
08/12/2019
Many of us here on the Active Rain platform know and admire Patricia Feager, a Realtor based in Flower Mound, Texas, in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Always positive, her posts and comments share her wisdom and caring for people -- clients, fellow bloggers, store owners, people she chances to meet,...
08/09/2019
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A couple of months ago I was working with sellers to prepare their condominium on the Great Highway in San Francisco for sale. (You can read about it here.) They offered to sell it to their tenant, and as it turned out, the tenant's friend purchased it. It was a smooth transaction, and the sale r...
08/07/2019