Spend Halloween with Your SF REALTOR® at the SF Zoo!

You’ve got lots of options to party on down in SF this Halloween even if the annual Castro Street Halloween Party isn’t an option this year.

This year, the weekend before Halloween, Continue Reading

Below is Zephyr Real Estate’s sales data for the previous week. These are NOT properties that have closed, just listings on which a purchase agreement has been ratified and the property has gone into escrow.

Multiple offers are back up (way up) and offers over the asking price are back up too. We’re on par with sales compared to this time last year, which surprises me, because inventory is lower this year than it was last year. Overall, the San Francisco property sales Continue Reading

So you’ve made it through the first two steps in the home buying purchase and you’ve picked your REALTOR®. You’re on your way to buying your own little piece of San Francisco real estate. But you’re not ready to get out there and go home shopping just yet.

First, you need to know how much you can afford. It’s scary how few people are out home shopping without having a clue as to what price range they should be shopping in. When I first meet clients, I always ask them how much home they think they can afford. The answers NEVER match the truth – they are either WAY more (I had a client come to me thinking they were in the $600-700K price range when they were in the $1.2M price range) or WAY less (another client thought they could swing $700-800K but couldn’t afford $500K) than reality.

Either way, if your impression of what you can afford doesn’t match your reality, then you are, frankly, wasting your time.

So, before ebmark on your SF home search, Continue Reading

Holy Crap… does anyone else realize it’s October? I realized it must have been October when I walked into a Macy’s and there were already Christmas trees. Can someone tell me when we decided to skip Halloween and Thanksgiving and jump right into the jolliest time of the year? I’d like to carve my pumpkin before I start making pie from it. Wait…. there was something else that made me realize that it’s October…. THAT’S RIGHT! MLS September sales data is officially available!

Here’s this month’s summary of home sales pulled directly from the MLS. Continue Reading