Sure fire ways to put money in your pocketare to recognize where the opportunities are in this market. Today, our Wells Fargo loan rep told us that rates have continued to drop to the point that jumbo loans are around 4.5% and adjustible loans are the 2% range! Wow, maybe now is a great time [...]

The beginning of September and we’re returning from the Labor Day weekend and gearing up for what is traditionally one of the busier seasonal real estate markets. The Spring market, March and April, were the busiest months we’ve seen all year so we’re on the lookout for higher activity.
The latest statistics give us some indication [...]

The real estate market in San Francisco is down around 20% from its high. Our market is made up of primary homes and is near jobs and education. San Francisco has held up dramatically well throughout the current economic climate.
Unlike San Francisco, Sonoma is down by 40-50% from the high. I have had a second [...]

Yes….the buyers are out there looking! I see this every weekend during my open house periods when I see many of the same faces around the neighborhood and City. Folks realize that San Francisco is ‘on sale’ and like every other period when prices were going up no one is just quite sure how long [...]

The dog days of August are upon us or with this foggy weather perhaps I should say the ’snow dogs’ as any elusive sign of summer seems to be waiting to arrive. The current Brokers’ Tours are small as most sellers await the weeks after Labor Day for the traditional spike in sales so we’re [...]

The real estate market ebbs and flows. Earlier this year, the central neighborhoods that are so popular these days had little inventory and fast absorbtion while inventory seemed to sit in the neighborhoods on the North side of the City.

Now…the central neighborhoods have had a build-up of $2mil+ homes that is now standing at a [...]

We successfullyrepresented clients in the multiple offer purchase of the house at 476 Lombard on Telegraph Hill.  Our clients are new residents of San Francisco moving here from Basel, Switzerland for a job transfer and it is fitting that they bought a 1920’s home on Telegraph Hill from heirs of the original owner. That’s right [...]

Over the past 2 months, the inventory of $2mil+ homes in the central District 5 (Noe Valley, Dolores Heights, et. al.) has grown to a current total of 31 homes. These were the folks who watched the Spring market ‘spring’ to life and thought ‘ah ha’ now is the time to ‘get out’. But at [...]

This week I attended the Inman Real Estate Technology Conference here in San Francisco. Things have already shifted since attending their earlier conference this past January. Technology as it applies to real estate and every other application is going ‘local’. By that I mean, its becoming ‘location’ based as technology now will deliver to the [...]

The 4th of Julyweekend is full of parties and gatherings and this year was no execption. I count myself lucky to spend a great deal of time at my home in Sonoma and with that we have had a constant ebb of friends from different affiliations who’ve visited us then made the plunge to purchase [...]