home buying – FInd San Francisco Condos

How to Win a Bidding War

Here are some tips on navigating today’s supercharged real estate market, where inventory is low and other buyers can be cutthroat. Bidding wars are becoming more commonplace in many suburban markets this spring as home...

Competitive home buyers waive contingencies to score homes in tight market

Rejection hurts in any form, but when Charlotte Nugent and her husband offered well over the asking price for several homes in the D.C. region and still lost out, they were admittedly frustrated. Like many...

August 3, 2020

Pandemic brings new surge of refi madness

What have you done with your bonus quarantine time? Make a sourdough bread starter? Learn to play the oboe? For mine, I looked for and purchased a new house. How I managed to pull this...

April 29, 2020

Market Musings: A decade for the record books in Bay Area real estate

San Francisco real estate in 2019 is heady, but it’s not the same Wild West that it was in 2007. Read more…

April 29, 2020

There’s more to vacant homes in SF than meets the eye

San Francisco has a tradition of vacant properties Read more…

April 22, 2020

Market Musings: Are buyers purchasing homes through ‘virtual” open houses?

Some agents tell me the market is at a standstill; others say they’re moving properties Read more..

February 10, 2020

Generation Z ready to step in to housing fray?

As the new decade gets underway, the youngest of the young adults – Generation Z – is entering the housing market with a significantly more positive outlook on homeownership than their Millennial or Generation X...

January 30, 2020

America’s Affordable Housing Crisis

In recent years, finding affordable housing has proven to be much like searching for a needle in a haystack. Affordable housing has been a growing concern since the Great Recession of 2008, and now, just...

December 4, 2019

Q3 2019 Affordability Report: Home-Ownership More Affordable Than a Year Ago but Remains out of Reach for Many

October 7, 2019

Here’s Why You Might Want to Buy an Older Home Instead of a New One

A new home may seem appealing, with all its customizable features fresh from the manufacturer, but there are some solid reasons why buying an older home can be a great choice, too. source: realtor.com