Why pay list, when you can pay double? Last month, I posted about  a property in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood that elicited 32 offers. Well, the sale closed last week at a whopping 96% above asking. Which begs the question, will paying double list the week before Facebook goes public prove to be a genius [...]

Check out my op-ed in this morning’s Chronicle: As an employer in San Francisco, I understand and respect the need to pay my share for city services. But when a love letter from City Hall reminded me of our annual payroll tax obligation, it didn’t just hurt my pocketbook; it offended my sense of rationality. [...]

It’s beginning to feel a lot like “the good old days,” where real estate is once cocktail party subject de jour. Oh San Francisco, you do love blowing bubbles. Case in point: 86 Wool St., an 1,100 square foot Marina-style home in Bernal Heights, just sold for $202,000 above list. Wow. A block north of [...]

By Andrew Jeffery I had an interesting conversation this morning about relative performance in different San Francisco neighborhoods during and after the housing bubble burst. Conventional wisdom would lead one to believe that SoMa, the fringier and “overdeveloped” part of San Francisco would have performed better than Nob Hill, which is much more established as [...]

We get asked almost every day whether we think a bubble is forming around social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and Zynga. And with Facebook buying Instagram this week for $1 billion, “bubble” is now on the tip of everyone’s tongue. They say you can see a bubble if you look at the real estate [...]