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 […]
With so many issues facing our City at the moment, the housing crisis is not getting as much attention as it used to.
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 […]
The Richmond District’s single-family median home prices rose 20.2% in 2021, with about the same number of properties selling as the previous year.
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 […]
With 2021 drawing to a close we already examined some of the most notable Richmond home sales of the year, but what about those that have yet to close the deal? With […]
As we’ve said before, price is not everything when it comes to writing about housing. But it IS the thing that’s on people’s minds most often, and how could it not be? […]
Vacancy rates became a point of controversy in San Francisco in recent years, with advocates for the homeless and those in danger of eviction pointing out that there are more vacant homes […]
As 2021 comes to an end, we have had an amazing year in the real estate market. The question being asked at the end of the year is always, “Where is the real estate market headed?”
It’s Hanukkah, and while sources like Rabbi Sari Laufer write that Hanukkah is not actually a major holiday in most Jewish traditions, it remains the most prominent in American culture and as […]
The Front Steps enjoyed a big Richmond sale this week, with bidding on 764 24th Avenue pushing the final sale price up to nearly $1 million more than the original asking price. […]
When reading and writing about housing, it’s easy to get hung up on prices; after all, that’s the bottom line. But there are other, possibly better ways to measure how strong or […]
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