Category Archives: Market news

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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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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The 2010 Residential Wrap-Up: What’s goin’ on? Not much.

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Misha

Avid readers of this blog will recall that I hastily pulled my last attempt to post on this subject because of some errors in the data.  Horrors.  The errors caused 2010 to look like a much stronger year in terms … Continue reading →

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Of Mixes and Medians: Interpreting Noe’s Valley

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Misha

My last post was about the fact that Noe Valley median home prices are still down 30% from their all time highs despite a smart recovery in median home prices city-wide.  This, despite my sense that there seem to have … Continue reading →

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How Deep is Noe’s Valley?

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Misha

Judging by the number of houses I’ve seen being redone from the studs up, together with the number of homes that seem to be hitting the market at over $2 million these days, you’d think that Noe Valley real estate … Continue reading →

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Focus on Potrero Hill

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Misha

Back from vacation, and ready to blog and roll! I’m currently working with a couple of clients looking for homes in the Potrero Hill District.  Here, we’re talking specifically about subdistrict 9.E under San Francisco’s MLS (Multiple Listing Service). It’s … Continue reading →

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