I’ve got a new piece on Burbed on why SF house prices and rents going up so much, which is a response to this article on CNN/Money.  The article is actually pretty interesting, going more deeply than usual into causes of low supply and high demand for the high end.  I’m republishing my piece here in full, [...]

It gets people’s feet on the floor, and that’s what sells a home. When you first list a property and hold it open you will get potential buyers driving by and many will get out of their cars and walk the property whether there is “Curb Appeal” or not. And if the place is priced [...]

Inventory is very low and has been for several months. There have been very few new listings in my office this month and we are the ‘Big Dogs” in Sebastopol. There is always a certain amount of organic or normal turnover in housing, the figure I have seen in textbooks is about 1% per year. [...]