Previously, we wrote about the very first road into the Richmond, and how this umbilical connection to the rest of the city ushered in the housing development that made the Richmond, well, […]
So what really attracts Richmond homebuyers? Well, we can only judge from what the data tells us; and looking at the numbers for 2022 so far, there is one figure that jumps […]
Not many home listings can be called infamous; of course, not many would want to be, but you don’t get to pick and choose your accolades. The once-ritzy property at 224 Sea […]
San Francisco is a renter’s city–has been since 1849. The Richmond is no exception: Per Planning Department estimates, as many as 68 percent of Inner Richmond homes are renter occupied, and for […]
The most important thing about housing is actually transit–you’re never going to sell a house nobody can get to, and even to this day, homes in SF’s western neighborhoods struggle with the […]
February, we hardly knew ye. The shortest month of 2022 has already come and gone, so let’s see what the home market in the Richmond looked like. We’re going to break things […]
There’s a lot more to San Francisco architecture (and the Richmond in particular) than just the Victorians. But that’s still all some people are interested in–and really, who can blame them? Sometimes […]
Is the Richmond one neighborhood, or is it three–Inner, Outer, and Central? In semantic terms, we could debate this all day; but in real estate terms the answer is three–please forward your […]
If realtors and housing watchers obsess over anything more than price, it’s the inescapable metric of DOM–the number of days on the market. In fact, some people can get downright superstitious about […]
At The Front Steps, we’re always a little bit fascinated by the phenomena of overbids–those homes that sell for more than they’re originally listed for, sometimes to a fantastic degree. Our weekly […]
Few things get housing watchers hotter under the collar than the question of whether and how we should be building more homes on San Francisco’s west side. Be you for the proposal […]
Celebrity homes are a guilty pleasure of many SF housing watchers, but the Richmond does not get as many gilded homeowners as some neighborhoods–you win some, you lose some. But until just […]
This is not as straightforward of a question as it seems. For one thing, it depends on what source we’re relying on: The standard (and easiest) authority on home-selling is the go-to […]
There are a lot of ways to make your listing stand out, but there’s only one that neither the seller nor the realtor can achieve all on their own: longevity. The #B […]
We’re barely more than a few days into the new year and already, improbably, Richmond homes are selling like mad. Typically, January is reckoned one of the slower months in the housing […]
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