The Fog Blog

I've got the cutest new listing in North Oakland on the Emeryville border. It won't even be on the MLS until next week. First open will be in two weeks.   In the meantime, it has great period details such as hardwood floors, 12-foot ceilings, medallions and glass doorknobs. All this for the same ...

As the largest number of adjustable mortgages in history are adjusting this year, the American dream may no longer be affordable as payments become a nightmare. It is certainly no one's fault that Bay Area real estate is no longer sky-rocketing out of control. Instead, some areas are in a dangero...

As I am listing a home in University Heights, I have been analyzing Portola recently and can share the following statistics with you. (If you'd like to see the pretty colored charts, email me and I'll send them to you.) Last year, there were a total of 136 listings of single-family residences.. (...

I have some clients who were successful in a multiple bidding situation 3 years ago and paid $500,000 for an adorable bungalow. It has 2 bedrooms, formal dining and hardwood floors in the main house and sits on a 6500 square foot lot that has a carport, tool shed, and is fully fenced. It also has...

I just got an email from my title company rep and wanted to share some of my ponderings on this with you. First of all, San Francisco is a very diverse market and very much a neighborhood-by-neighborhood market. The info I have is by districts which is still very general. We only have 10 MLS dist...

I have been studying pre-foreclosure and foreclosure properties for over a year now and have been tracking--on an informal basis-the numbers of short sales (pre-foreclosures) and REOs (foreclosures) for a while. A few days ago, I finally started to put this information into an excel format so tha...

As an active blogger and networker, I am frequently contacted by people because of my knowledge of and experience with short sales (pre-foreclosures) and potential REOs (foreclosures). I have been communicating for a few weeks now with a lender/real estate agent/investor who thinks similar to me ...

Back to my side of the Bay for a bit...First of all, I want to reiterate past blog posts that San Francisco is still an awesome market! Two of my colleagues had a listing and got over a dozen offers. Not the best location in Visitacion Valley, not the best condition, but they priced it correctly,...

I was doing some research for a client and thought that I would share some of my findings here. I am only looking at a small segment of the market--one zip code in Oakland:  94621--and at two-bedroom, one-bath single-family homes. In all of 2007, 49 2-BR, 1-bath homes sold in this zip code rangin...

Having half my business in the East Bay, I am a member of the Oakland Association of Realtors. Whereas I live in San Francisco, I enjoy working in parts of Oakland as well as it is more affordable for many of the first-time buyers with whom I work.As I have mentioned before, there are very few RE...