Kevin+Jonathan’s Blog Posts re SF Real Estate

Practical Advice for Buyers and Sellers

Practical advice and tips for buyers and sellers in San Francisco’s dynamic real estate market from Kevin Ho and Jonathan McNarry of Vanguard Properties

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From the East     

 The Week from July 20, 2015 The Bay Area is still on our minds as we’re among the red brick and sand…

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SF Houses Go For $1 Million Over Asking Because Realtors Are Under-Pricing Everything: SFist

There’s a weird psychology happening now around SF’s over-heated and wildly expensive housing market. Basically, if realtors put things on the market…

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Dilapidated Mission duplex sells more than 100% over asking – On The Block

Our Coverage Featured on SFGate   You can see the raw materials the “lucky” new owners have to deal with in the gallery... Read more

The missing middle: San Francisco developers rethink how to build housing in reach of the middle class – San Francisco Business Times

If the team can pull that off, it will help fill a big hole that San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s office is…

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The least expensive S.F. neighborhoods to buy a single-family home – On The Block

There were also many neighborhoods where median single-family home sales were far below the citywide median. For the most part, these homes…

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SF Is Top 5 City For Extra Home Purchases By The Uber-Rich: SFist

We live in the world of 211,275 individuals who have $30 million or more in assets each, and many of them own…

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Mayor Lee offers answers to San Francisco’s housing ‘anxiety’ – SFGate

Lee, who is riding high politically with no re-election rival in sight this fall, doled out statistics that underlie the city’s prosperity….

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The Valencia Effect: Are there too many restaurants on the Mission’s hottest street? – San Francisco Business Times

It seemed like the deck was stacked in favor of Abbot’s Cellar, the upscale restaurant sequel to Monk’s Kettle from Nat Cutler,…

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Curbed SF: What Was the Best New Building Project of 2014? – Year in Curbed – Curbed SF

Welcome to Year in Curbed, wherein we close out 2014 by asking local design, real estate, and media luminaries to reflect on the highlights and lowlights of a year’s worth of development in San Francisco, Kevin Ho, realtor at Vanguard Properties, contributes.

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Plans for rising Mid-Market threaten to create aesthetic tangle – SFGate

It’s a sign of progress for San Francisco’s Market Street that a half-dozen developers want to build housing and hotels on the…

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November 7, 2014 San Francisco Real Estate

Is It Real—Or a Rendering? – WSJ – WSJ

In the business of luxury condominiums, a picture is worth $10 million. To sell condo units long before the building is finished,…

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