The Marina Times Real Estate Market Report: July 2014

The Eichler temptation

When Joseph Eichler was born in 1900, homes in the United States were not much known for their creativity. When he died in 1974, he had helped to change the landscape of American m... Read More

Real Estate Investor

Airbnb goes legit?

Home-sharing service begins collecting mandated hotel tax as city clarifies regulation

By John Zipperer

Short-term residential rental companies such as Airbnb, VRBO, and HomeAway might be the biggest disruption to hit the real estate market since public online listings took away the ... Read More

Real Estate

A tale of five cities

By John Zipperer

In my line of work, I meet a lot of people who have recently moved to San Francisco or who are hoping to move here as soon as they find a place to stay. Newcomers usually are looki... Read More

Real Estate Today

San Francisco meets the tiny house movement

By Carole Isaacs

Here we are beginning September, and the race to buy a home in the fall is off and running. Now is the time to give serious thought to your list of must-haves when you go out searc... Read More

Real Estate

That means what?

By Stephanie Saunders Ahlberg

As with many professions, real estate has many of its own terms. Sometimes I have to remind myself that the general public might not understand what I’m talking about. My hus... Read More

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The Marina Times Real Estate Market Report: July 2014

By Hill & Co.

Real Estate Investor

Tenant improvements

By John Zipperer

In this densely populated, built-up city, some of the most desired property is something you can’t have. The Presidio is land like any other land, but it’s run by the P... Read More

Real Estate Today

A real estate fairy tale: a message to sellers

By Carole Isaacs

Once upon a time, a couple decided they wanted to buy a house. They took this major investment seriously and researched the steps for buying a home. Completing the first step after... Read More

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The Marina Times Real Estate Market Report: June 2014

By Hill & Co.

Real Estate

Not enough housing at any level

By John Zipperer

FLIP FLOPPERS Last month, we reported on attempts by some local politicians to make it more difficult to flip homes — buying and reselling them within a year at sometimes signifi... Read More

Real Estate

When will San Francisco take assessors seriously?

By John Farrell

One of the most, if not the most, important revenue producing department in the City and County of San Francisco is the assessor’s office. The assessor’s office is resp... Read More

Real Estate

Where to go from here

Exploring what can be done to deal with city growth successfully

By John Zipperer

Final of a four-part series (Part 3, Part 2) When NPR’s comedy news quiz program Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me visited San Francisco in late July, host Peter Sagal joked, ... Read More

Real Estate Today

Cookie butter is to Trader Joe’s as San Francisco is to real estate

By Carole Isaacs

The Trader’s Joe’s Fearless Flyer arrived in my mail, and I was captured by the “Cookie Butter” article. What on earth was cookie butter? Just think about &... Read More

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