Boast Busters In The Making
To be fair, this isn’t nearly as much of a boast as the original, but it still needs some busting. Under the Inman headline “Realtor questions value of interest-only real…
QuickLinks: Grapes Of Wrath (In Reverse)
∙ Saying Goodbye California Sun, Hello Midwest ∙ Time to Move On?
San Francisco Housing Inventory: Up, Up, And Away!
According to the HousingTracker, San Francisco housing inventory is up over 36% over the past two months (based on active MLS listings). That’s a good statistic, but don’t pay too…
QuickLinks: Six As The Magic Number
∙ Mortgages: 6% and beyond ∙ Real estate: Why are you paying 6%? ∙ The 6 Percent Solution: Skip Real Estate Agents
Sign(s) Of The Times
Tipped by a loyal reader of SocketSite, we dispatched our staff photographer to 308 Presidio post-haste. No fewer than seven “For Sale” signs (there’s another behind the car) that all…
Forget $340M Powerball, Just Give Us A Damn Condo!
4,300 applicants, 400 drawn names, and only 20 lucky “winners”. Residents in other cities dream of winning multi-million dollar lotteries, while here in San Francisco we dream about winning the…
Median San Francisco Bay Area Home Prices Down $20k
According to the California Association of Realtors, the Median sales price of a San Francisco Bay Area home fell 2.8% last month (from $730k in August, to $710k in September).…
Potential Home (Depot) Wreckers
The Board of Supervisors is considering an appeal of the Planning Commissions approval for Home Depot’s Bayview project. Specifically, the supervisors were charged with looking at whether the project’s environmental…
Sweet Lime Green Victorians (Literally)
Okay, we know we’re pushing the boundaries a bit with regard to “real estate” news, but it’s worth it to report that artist Elizabeth Hickok has created a scale-model of…
POS (And We’re Not Talking Point Of Sale)
Marinite’s nano-puiblishing empire has expanded beyond the Marin Real Estate Bubble (which has been going strong since July). The newly added site, Marin PoS is billed as profiling “typical examples…