So many reasons to love San Francisco

San francisco was recently ranked number two among top-performing real estate markets in the country. In fact, California dominated the top 20 list, with 11 markets in our state be... Read More

Real Estate Today

Brexit and the San Francisco home market

By Carole Isaacs

Just when I thought I was going to write about how to take advantage of the late-summer real estate market in San Francisco, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. T... Read More

Real Estate

That sinking feeling

By John Zipperer

MILLENNIUM TOWER LAWSUIT You knew Millennium Tower residents would end up in court before they ended up in the landfill. A group calling itself the Millennium Towers Litigation Gro... Read More

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Progress made on housing

By John Zipperer

INTEREST RATES Whether driven by public policy in Washington or by uncontrollable foreign actions (see “Quote Unquote” below), interest rates have been falling steadily... Read More

Real Estate Investor

Property market shifts gear New high-end condos change the market

By John Zipperer

Supply and demand still has the final say, even in San Francisco’s wild real estate market. Early this month, developer Trumark Urban is expected to begin selling a batch of ... Read More

Real Estate

Going green: Not just for energy saving anymore

By Stephanie Saunders Ahlberg

There is more and more talk about “off the grid,” “going green,” and “energy efficiency” these days. It applies to cars, appliances, devices, an... Read More

Real Estate Investor

Micro apartments: New but not new

Small units are one way to deal with a popular and dense city

By John Zipperer

When I moved to Chicago as a twentysomething, I knew the neighborhood I wanted to be in: the obviously titled Lakeview a few miles north of downtown. Friends of mine already lived ... Read More

Real Estate Today

Multiple offers follow summer cooling

By Carole Isaacs

Here we are in July, and there is talk of a cooling in the real estate market. San Francisco continues to be different. So what does a softening or cool-down really mean here? Firs... Read More

News Briefs, Real Estate

Will There Be a Soft Landing For The Bay Area?

By John Zipperer

You can finally see the signs that some have predicted and others have feared (and a few have cheered) for some time: the local economy is beginning to cool, and its impact is bein... Read More

News Briefs, Real Estate

Governor Brown’s Housing Plan Advances

By John Zipperer

Gov. Jerry Brown and the state legislature agreed on a budget that also moves forward the governor’s plan announced in May to speed up approvals of new housing developments i... Read More

News Briefs, Real Estate

Market is the Market’s Leader

By John Zipperer

Market Street, the famous commercial road cutting through San Francisco from the Ferry Building to Twin Peaks, is the city’s leading place for office rents. Asking rates for ... Read More

Real Estate

Gov. Brown’s Hail Mary

By John Zipperer

GOVERNOR BROWN PROPOSES BYPASSING LOCAL REVIEW TO BOOST AFFORDABLE HOUSING California Gov. Jerry Brown might just have given the state’s housing sector its biggest shake-up i... Read More

Real Estate Today

The devil is in the details

By Carole Isaacs

A picture might be worth a thousand words, but when buying a home it is not enough. Today, just about everyone’s first stop in the search for a home is the Internet. It is im... Read More

Real Estate

Why you need title insurance when purchasing a home

It’s all about learning all that can be known, and protecting you from the unknown

By Stephanie Saunders Ahlberg

Why do I need title insurance?” This is a question that often comes from first-time home buyers or buyers who are moving here from other states that might handle searching th... Read More

Real Estate Today

‘Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate’

By Carole Isaacs

Zillions definition: A very large number. Occasionally I had wondered what the name Zillow meant. This was answered early on in the book. The idea was to combine the zillions of pi... Read More

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