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Archive for July, 2011

Miscellaneous Neighborhood/ District Market Charts

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Sunset/ Parkside/ Richmond SFDs: Average Days on Market

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Sunset/ Parkside/ Richmond SFD Months’ Supply of Inventory

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Answer: What building is affectionately referred to as “The Granite Lady”, as it is one of the few that survived the great 1906 earthquake?

Answer: The Old US Mint The San Francisco Mint is a branch of the United States Mint, and was opened in 1854 to serve the gold mines of the California Gold Rush. It quickly outgrew its first building and moved into a new one in 1874. This building, the Old United States Mint, also known [...]

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Great Online Resources for Living in San Francisco

San Francisco & Bay Area… Restaurants, wine, arts, sports, nightlife, neighborhoods, schools, farmers’ markets, things to do with kids and dogs, biking, hiking, transit, real estate, maps, remodeling and renovation tools, and other online resources. Chronicle’s Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants & Map Chronicle’s Bargain Bites Restaurants & Map Chronicle’s Best Breakfast Places Best of [...]

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San Francisco Commercial Rents

The tech sector followed by the financial/business sector has fueled the growth in San Francisco causing rental rates to increase more during the 2nd quarter than in any other of the previous 10 quarters. For Q2, 2011: The city wide vacancy rate continued to drop for the quarter to 13.3% with Class A and Class [...]

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Question: What building is affectionately referred to as “The Granite Lady”, as it is one of the few that survived the great 1906 earthquake?

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Rising Rents = Upward Pressure on Home Prices

It’s a truism that the correlation between what a property will sell for vs. what it will rent for is one of the fundamental ways to assess whether a home is reasonably priced. In a recent Economist article, they said they believed that based on this equation, US homes were now very slightly undervalued. As [...]

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SF Case-Shiller Home Price Index Increases Again

S&P Case-Shiller Overall Home-Price Index for San Francisco Metro Area Increases for 2nd Consecutive Month in May Case-Shiller High Tier Price Index Shows 3rd Consecutive Increase The Paragon Real Estate Group July 27, 2011 Update click to enlarge The Case-Shiller Index Deciphered For the San Francisco (City & County) Real Estate Market The S&P Case-Shiller [...]

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San Francisco Real Estate Trends for the SOMA, South Beach, Mission Bay & Yerba Buena Condo Market

The July 2011 Market Overview by the Paragon Real Estate Group Generally speaking, monthly fluctuations up and down — especially of median price — are relatively meaningless unless continuing for an extended period of time. In real estate, the longer term trends, seen across a wide variety of statistical measurements, are the meaningful ones. This [...]

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San Francisco Marathon – July 31st

In July of 2010, The Wall Street Journal coined The San Francisco Marathon® “The Race Even Marathoners Fear”. Approximately 25,000 runners will flood the streets of San Francisco to take the ultimate challenge in the San Francisco Marathon, Half Marathon, and 5K events. Join the fun with your neighbors, companies, clubs, schools, teams, churches, or [...]

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San Francisco Residential Market Trends in Realtor District 5

A statistical market overview by the Paragon Real Estate Group for Noe Valley, Eureka Valley & the Castro, Cole Valley, Mission Dolores, Haight Ashbury, Ashbury Heights, Clarendon Heights, Parnassus Heights, Corona Heights, Glen Park, Twin Peaks & the Duboce Triangle July 2011 Below are a variety of charts detailing overview market statistics and trends in [...]

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