Kevin+Jonathan’s Blog Posts re SF Real Estate

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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Judge tosses S.F. law meant to shield evicted tenants – SFGate

The ordinance “seeks to force the property owner to pay for a broad public problem not of the owner’s making,” said Breyer,…

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Luxury Buyers Are Spending Mega Bucks in These Markets | Realtor Magazine

For affluent individuals under the age of 35, the percentage of those planning to buy a luxury home in the next year…

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