Category Archives: Data

Noe Valley Comes Roaring Back

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Misha

While single family home prices for San Francisco as a whole can’t seem to recover beyond being around 18% down from their all-time highs, Noe Valley home prices have come roaring back since the start of the year. The three … Continue reading →

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San Francisco’s Best Schools

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Misha

Before curb appeal; before “walk-score” and commute; and way before closet space and water pressure, there’s the school.  For people with kids in tow or on the way, the primary determinant of where they want to live, right after what … Continue reading →

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Spring Arrives in Noe Valley and Home Sales Warm Up

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Misha

January is the cruelest month for the housing market. Every winter, sales flatline for a month or two, before reviving with the spring. This year, there were just seven sales in Noe Valley (Subdistrict 5.C) in January and February.  That’s … Continue reading →

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Who to Believe? Case Shiller or Ken Rosen

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Misha

Case Shiller may be talking about double dip but Ken Rosen sees a somewhat brighter future for San Francisco’s residential real estate market. Here’s the doom and gloom at the national level from the recently released Case Shiller Report for … Continue reading →

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Price-Shopping San Francisco’s Neighborhoods

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Misha
2010 San Francisco Home Price by Neighborhood

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  San Francisco’s most expensive neighborhood?  In 2010, Pacific Heights beat out Sea Cliff by a long shot with a median price home costing a cool $3.5 million.  (And after witnessing the tsunami in Japan, people may be willing to … Continue reading →

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Noe Valley Sales Distribution Returns to Normal in 2010

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Misha
Noe Valley Sales Distribution 2010

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The median price of a single family home in Noe Valley in 2010 was $1,221,500.  The median price of a condo or TIC was substantially less, at $768,000. Total sales for the year were 233 units, divided evenly between homes … Continue reading →

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Noe Valley Back Smartly in 2010

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Misha

    After nearly two years of sharp declines, Noe Valley single family home prices recovered smartly in 2010.  Not enough, however, for anyone to claim that Noe Valley is somehow immune from market forces affecting the rest of San … Continue reading →

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What’s A Better Value in San Francisco, A Condo or a Home? (Part 2)

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Misha

In my last post, I included a chart that showed both single family homes and condos stuck in relatively narrow price ranges over the last 18 months or so.  At the end of 2010 the median price of a single … Continue reading →

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What’s a Better Value in San Francisco, A Condo or a Home? (Part 1)

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Misha

Real estate lore holds that if the market for single-family homes is doing badly, the condominium market will be doing worse.  But what about San Francisco, which is the textbook case of a supply-constrained market with high barriers to entry? … Continue reading →

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2010 San Francisco Residential Wrap-Up: Why condo owners may not be celebrating.

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Misha

Given the amount of bad news coming out of the housing market these days, you’d think that San Francisco condo and TIC owners would be celebrating the fact that values increased 4.5% in 2010. If no one feels like popping … Continue reading →

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