The property located at 172 Denslowe was purchased 8 years ago, in March 2003 for $532,000 and it was remodeled and re-landscaped with a makeover featured on HGTV. Before the HGTV makeover, the property wasn’t too much of a sparkling house, but with the help of the creative team they breathe new life into it [...]
The property located at 690 Market Street #2301 was purchased for $2,201,500 in March 2008 on the penultimate floor atop the Ritz-Carlton Residences in San Francisco. Eight months after the purchase the real estate returned to the market listed for $2,299,000 Socketsite reports. At the beginning of 2009, the same property price was reduced to [...]
The house where a 75-year-old great-grandmother lived in for nearly 40 years was foreclosed on and she was pushed into the streets with her clothing and the three children she was looking after. Josephine Tolbert vowed to break back into her former home, although the locks were changed. Tolbert ended up in front of her [...]
A 23-room luxury inn in Glen Ellen, the Gaige House has hit the auction block for $8 million. The historic property became victim of the economic downturn in Sonoma County lodging sector, as it went back to its lenders. However, the hotel, which posted a $1.6 million revenue last year remains open while the lenders [...]
The 4,210 square-feet property located at 136 Saint Francis Boulevard was purchased for $2,000,000 back in 2003, while it was traded for less than half of that amount (to be more precise: for $888,000) in 1996. The luxury real estate was refinanced five years go with a new $2,120,000 first mortgage. The first default was [...]
A beautiful Victorian home built in 1900 in Lower Pacific Height was listed as a short sale, Socketsite reported. The description says the luxury real estate features 3+ bedroom and 3 bathrooms and it has expansive living space on three levels. Other informations revealed by San Francisco MLS: remodeled kitchen and bathrooms, formal dining room, [...]
Concord Corporate Centre now belongs to Westcore Properties. The price paid for the 347,000-square-foot two-building Class A office campus at 1320 and 1390 Willow Pass Road in Concord was $41 million or about $118 per square foot. The buildings had been given back to the lender, a European bank, by Transwestern, which had paid $99 [...]
A Bayview woman recently grabbed the headlines as she broke back into her foreclosed home. According to an article published by ABC7 the woman now admits that mistakes were made, but she was the victim of predatory lending practices at the height of the housing boom. Her case is one of the thousands of homeowners [...]
San Francisco Bay Area foreclosures slowed down 7% in September, compared to a moth prior and 10% from this time last year, the Contra Costa Times reported. The article is based on the report released recently by RealtyTrac revealed these numbers, though how long the decline will last is uncertain. The numbers are the following: [...]
What we read from RealtyTrac statistics is seen first hand by San Francisco Bay Area sheriff’s departments, who are having to hand out eviction notices in a fast pace. As the latest reports coming from RealtyTrac show, San Francisco and the whole nine-county Bay Area mortgage defaults is up in an accelerated pace and even [...]
