Not A List We Really Wanted To Make
Business 2.0 has just released their list of 101 Dumbest Moments in Business for 2005. And we’re not too thrilled to report that the San Francisco Bay Area real estate…
Inconceivable!
The listing for 66 Cleary Court #708 reminds us of that immortal quote from Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride: “You keep using that word. I do not think it…
Broker’s Index Says…Buyers Market In Marin
Real estate broker Nate Sumner developed The MARKET HEAT Index™ to track “the intensity of buyer competition for listed residential properties.” The Index is derived by “adding the number of…
Is Silicon Valley Once Again Leading The Way?
From the Realty Times: However, a growing number of buyers who purchased homes at peak price periods in 2005 may now be living in homes worth tens of thousands of…
Charles Schwab Says…
…especially when you’ve been tapping into a home equity line of credit to finance your lifestyle (i.e. a plasma, BMW, and dinner at Michael Mina), and you purchased the house…
On Tour as Repeat
Buyers rejoice. Home inventories are once again on the rise as sellers and agents re-list properties that failed to sell last year and which had been withdrawn from the market…
Ignorance Is Bliss (Until You lose Your House)
It looks like the two Davids are starting to plead ignorance with regard to the impact that investors (i.e. speculators and flippers) will have on the housing market. First David…
Those Damn Neighbors
The listing price for the two bedroom house at 2401 Vallejo has been reduced $230,000 (to $1.99m). The property had been sitting on the market at $2.25m when their next-door…
Feel Our Pain (And Avoid Your Own)
A corrupt hard drive reduced our office to ruble (and our staff to tears) last week. Take it from us, spending four days reinstalling software, recovering files from a week-old…
Yes, Yes, No!
Here we were, just about to close the office early and start getting ready for the Hayes Valley Holiday Block Party, when a story from The Bakersfield Californian lands in…