One of the first steps in designing an effective property marketing campaign is to analyze how buyers typically find the homes they purchase. It only makes sense to focus on those media and those efforts that grab the most eyeballs, … Continue reading
Bay Area Home Value Update: Third Quarter 2013 Median Prices
Median prices tend to mask large disparities in the prices of the underlying individual sales, especially in the case of larger cities. For example, San Francisco neighborhood median house prices range from $465,000 to $4,000,000, and there will be similar … Continue reading
Buyer & Seller Closing Costs
How buyers and sellers in San Francisco split the closing costs pertinent to the sale of real estate is ultimately decided in the purchase contract itself, but this list details how they are typically split in San Francisco County. Very … Continue reading
SF Ranked Top City For Trick-or-Treating
For the third consecutive year, San Francisco takes the prize as Zillow’s top US city for trick-or-treating. To help identify locations that could potentially dish out the most candy and present the least amount of safety and walking concerns, Zillow determines … Continue reading →
The Home-Selling Process
Selling residential real estate in the San Francisco Bay Area is a complicated financial transaction involving many important issues: home preparation, pricing and fair market value, comprehensive marketing across a wide variety of media, buyer profile and buyer qualifying, contract negotiation, showing the property, statutory disclosure of the property’s condition and circumstances, buyer due diligence, appraisal and financing and liability management. Doing these things well can make a huge difference in time and money. Continue reading →
Online Resources: All Things San Francisco
Online Resources for San Francisco Home Buyers Continue reading →
The Home-Buying Process
Buying a home is typically the largest, most complicated, and often most emotional financial transaction of one’s life. There is a lot at stake, not just money but also issues such as security, happiness and everything else wrapped up in … Continue reading →
Bay Area Home-Value Map
Home Values around the San Francisco Bay Area A map of median house sales prices by city and town for 3rd quarter 2013 sales reported to MLS. In the map above, “k” signifies thousands of dollars and “m” millions of … Continue reading →
