Learning From Past Mistakes
A tipster passed along some interesting Friday afternoon reading. A couple of excerpts from a New York Times story published in 1984: “My pal Jerry P. just bought a condominium…
Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Come on readers, we’re still trying to answer our last reader request, and now we have another: “Do you know anything about a small new development in South Beach called…
Did Somebody Just Get Zillowed?
According to Zillow.com, the house at 2257 Green Street last sold on 5/15/2000 for $3,000,000 and should now be worth (approximately) $3,770,914 (give or take half a million). What’s interesting…
Renovation Sighting: 3536 Sacramento
Numerous hopeful NIMBYs have asked us if we could provide any insight into the renovation of the beautiful old building located at 3536 Sacramento which used to the home of…
From Flip To Flames?
Three weeks ago 2626 Sutter was just another “renovated” property with fresh paint, sloping floors, and a price tag destined to land it in the RealRecentReductions archive. Today it’s a…
The New Yorkers Are Coming! The New Yorkers Are Coming!
It’s official: apartment therapy aims to launch it’s San Francisco edition on April 3, and Curbed’s SF edition is in the “incubator”. Perhaps we shouldn’t have gone and pointed out…
Cool Online Design Tools
It’s funny, on the East Coast a real estate group (corcoran) redesigns their website, includes an online “Arrange-a-Room” tool, and gets all sorts of nods for launching a cool new…
Our Readers Know Better. Right?
Please don’t join the ranks of those who are in over their heads when it comes to servicing their debts (mortgage payments?), and are banking on double-digit home appreciation to…
As The Tide Turns Down South
After years of pointing to skyrocketing sales and price data to hype the market, the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors is now taking the fifth as the market has turned…
A Reader Request
A reader writes: “was just curious if you knew what the legal ramifications will be when all these people who have a mortgage in common through a TIC find themselves…