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Luba’s San Francisco Real Estate Blog was created to share insights about San Francisco Real Estate and about San Francisco living. Written by Luba Muzichenko, an "almost-native" San Franciscan and a local Realtor® with Zephyr Real Estate, Luba’s San
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San Francisco Real Estate Fast Facts: November 2008 vs November 2009
For those of you that like your SF real estate market data without commentary, here ya go. Take a look, check it out, come to your own conclusions. Or – you can always ask me questions. Fast Facts Single-Family Homes Condos 2-4 U...
Newsom Facebook’s his Press Release about Treasure Island Transfer from Navy to SF
Photo from Inhabitat.com According to a Facebook update (yes, I’m Gavin’s FB friend, I’d like to think we’re actually really close and he reads my status updates and laughs. ): [Mayor Newsom] just announced an agreement w...
How to Tell You’re in a Safe SF Neighborhood
I hate to say it, but the title of this post is kinda of misleading. It’s actually a bit of a trick question. Why? Well, everyone has a different idea of what makes a neighborhood “safe.” Frankly, each person has a different tolerance to...
San Francisco Real Estate – SOLD!
Want to know know what sold in San Francisco in the last 30 days? Sign up for The City Update(TM) – San Francisco’s Friendliest Newsletter. You’ll get the details, and then some, in your inbox (almost) every Friday. If you just wan...
Swine Flue Vaccine Update – Kids Need a 2nd Shot!
You got your kids an H1N1 vaccination. You thought they were safe, but apparently, one shot is NOT enough! I got an update from San Francisco’s Supervisor Carmen Chu the other day, and she asked that we spread the news widely: The Departme...
San Francisco Real Estate Charts and Stats
To continue with the good news from today’s earlier post and since a pic is worth a thousand words, I thought I’d just throw a couple of charts and stats from the Polaris Group’s report about current San Francisco real estate market trends....
San Francisco Real Estate Forecast Looking Good for 2010
Another day of good news in the San Francisco housing market! San Francisco’s Polaris Group has released it’s San Francisco Residential Development Report for December 2009. The report analyzes new and resale condominium market trends and the ...
SFUSD Seeks Family Feedback in Ambitious Redesign of School Assignment Process
San Francisco happens to be one of the few cities where school districts don’t have a direct impact on real estate prices, mostly because the way that school assignment process works for SF kids is not like it’s done in most places, but what do ...
From the San Francisco Zoo: 6 Ways to Have a Greener Holiday
I love the San Francisco Zoo. In fact, I love it SOOOOO much that every time I help someone buy or sell San Francisco real estate, I donate a part of my professional fees directly to the Zoo. Prior to my career in the SF real estate biz, I actual...
San Francisco – Parking Ticket Roulette (And How to WIN!)
SF Parking Roulette If I wasn’t sick on the couch today nursing a death-defying cold, I’d be out today, with the other masses of San Francisco real estate agents looking at all of the homes that are on the market. It’s what we d...
San Francisco Real Estate Fast Facts – October 2008 vs. October 2009
For those of you that like your SF real estate market data without commentary, here ya go. Take a look, check it out, come to your own conclusions. (Editor’s Note: Set forth below are Unit Sales/DOM/Monthly Supply charts for the month of October...
Plant SF Helps Create Permeable Landscaping
I just got Carmen Chu’s latest newsletter and it had this news for residents of the Sunset District: Sidewalk gardens can not only make our streetscapes beautiful, but also help recharge the aquifer and reduce sewer overflow contamination of t...
San Francisco Stylephile – Your Guide to Living in Style in SF
San Francisco Stylephile So I have a friend. Her identity is a secret. But her blog is not. It’s the San Francisco Stylephile Blog. Things I like about the blog (and the super secret author): She’s a San Franciscan She has her own ...
Where to get your San Francisco (Ice) Skate On!
It’s that time again! OK, so it’s ALMOST that time again. The holidays are around the corner. It’s time for traditions like turkey, ham, festive family dinners, eggnog, cioppino (which is mostly a San Francisco tradition than...
Got Bags? Get Them From the Friendliest San Francisco Realtor
A while ago I noted that San Francisco had put a ban on plastic grocery bags. Since then, many cities have followed suit, or at least have contemplated following suit. The problem is that stores aren’t using the biodegradable starch based bags...
San Francisco Halloween 2009
So it’s time for another Halloween. For me, it’s another year where I didn’t make it to Half Moon Bay for the maze, I don’t have a pumpkin and haven’t bought candy yet for trick-or-treaters. I did manage to order a costu...
More Animal Spotting – Tigers in the Haight
Tiger House in the Haight I’ve been on a roll snapping pictures of houses with a little more character in the City. But this one comes to me from Wolf Davidson, who has asked me to identify him as “a VERY pleased client.” ...
San Francsico DPW Map from 1997
SF Department of Public Works Map from 1997 I was digging through emails that I meant to get to “one day” on my quest to someday address all the things on my “to do” list when I stumbled upon an awesome map that Mark Pfeiffer,...
Celebrity Surfer Musician Tom Curren Joins It’s About Sea Life 2009
An update to It’s About Seal Life 2009 from the organizer: Surf Addict Presents three-time world champion surfer-turned-musician Tom Curren to perform at “It’s About Sea Life Benefit 2” After-Party, on November 20th, 2009, at the Hard Ro...
6 Internet Resources You Need to Live Green in San Francisco
In San Francisco, living green isn’t just an option, you’re pretty much going to be tarred and feathered if you DON’T think about your carbon footprint on a daily basis and do something proactive about it. And frankly, tarring an...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in Noe Valley
I got stuck parking a litle further from my Zephyr Real Estate office than usual today. But I guess it was one of those serendipitous sorts of things. I’ve been trying to go “green” just like everyone else is (or should be) doin...
The Newest (and possibly best) San Francisco Photo Club
I’ve been a huge fan of local blogger and photographer Plug1 of the photo blog WhatI’mSeeing.com. You can imagine my nervousness when I read the tweet that WhatI’mSeeing.com was expiring soon. Who was going to bring me local pho...
What YOU Can Buy in San Francisco with 3.5% Down
Nope, I didn’t stutter. You still CAN buy a home in San Francisco with just 3.5% down. There are lots of restrictions, certain buildings don’t qualify, interest rates are slightly higher, but honestly, for many people, it is THE ONLY WA...
San Francisco Fast Facts August 2008 vs. August 2009
For those of you that like your SF real estate market data without commentary, here ya go. Take a look, check it out, come to your own conclusions. Or – you can always ask me questions. Fast Facts (Editor’s Note: Set forth ...
Design Above All 2009 at San Francisco’s One Rincon Hill
When I was invited to Design Above All, I thought I was pretty cool in terms of getting a “media” pass. Being a real estate blogger sometimes has it’s priveledges. But I’ve been to the One Rincon Hill development and s...
One Rincon – Design Above All 2009
I’m at the Design Above All event at One Rincon and of course, forgot my “good” camera – but tell me you wouldn’t mind waking up to this view! You can, for $3.4M. And it’s worth EVERY penny. One caveat – the...
San Francisco Rents are Rising
According to rentBits, a rental search engine for apartments and rental homes, the average rental rates for San Francisco has seen a 10% increase August over July, and a 4% increase September over August. Collectively, across all bedrooms, the a...
It’s About Sea Life 2009!
Last year, I got to be part of the It’s About Sea Life Benefit, an awesome event that my friend, neighbor and client, Milton Fiala of SurfAddict somehow magically pulled together. The event was so awesome last year, that rather than ju...
A Reminder – San Francisco is Earthquake Territory
Uploaded by janepriceestrada The good folks over at SFist remind us that San Francisco is, well, prime real estate for earthquakes. And since in the last few days, both Samoa and Indonesia have been devastated my earthquakes, now’s as good a...
Mortgage Rates Keep Slipping, Slipping, Slipping – Into the Future……
Was just surfing the interweb through my RSS reader and caught that the interest rates for mortgages just keeps on slowly slipping (reminding me of that “Fly Like an Eagle” song which is now stuck on a loop in my head. The Zillow folks sa...
