The San Francisco housing is giving positive signs that lead us to think it is on its way to recovery. The latest numbers published by DataQuick show recorded home sales up 1.6% on a year-over-year basis in December with 499 recorded sales compared to 491 sales in December 2010. This number is also up 18.2% [...]
Waypoint Real Estate Group is ready to take action against the foreclosure crisis, and shows a positive example for investors, the Congress and the Fed. While the Fed and the Congress have a word fight over which is the best path to housing recovery, Waypoint has a simple action plans: it buys, renovates and rents [...]
The fabulous 20,000 square foot penthouse atop the St. Regis in the city of San Francisco which was listed for $35 million, has found a buyer and now is in contract, according to SFLuxe. The luxury property was created by an international award-winning interior design company called Orlando Diaz-Azcuy Design Associates and it is strapping [...]
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 [...]
$3.2 million was the final price paid for the historic landmark property commissioned and built by famed adventurer Richard Halliburton in South Laguna Beach the Southern California MLS informed. The recently sold property is known as the ‘Hangover House,’ was built 75 years ago on a hill on concrete and steel structure with sweeping ocean [...]
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 [...]
While pre-foreclosure activity was down during the April to August period, the lenders resumed their voluntarily suspended foreclosure activities – due to the imminent foreclosure settlement. This resulted in a quick jump in pre-foreclosure activity in San Francisco. To be more specific, the number is 19% August, with 651 properties in the pre-foreclosure pipeline versus [...]
