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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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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...
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 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 ...
San Francisco Real Estate’s Sexiest Agents
So, if you don’t yet know that the contest for the Sexiest Realtor in the San Francisco Bay Area is on and poppin’ – then you haven’t been keeping up with the blogosphere. As usual, this time of year, The Front Steps (one of my personal fa...
November 2009 San Francisco Housing Sales Data is Here!
Yet again, Luba’s San Francisco Real Estate Blog brings you the latest San Francisco Real Estate market report right here. (You can also view previous market updates by selecting the archives on the upper right portion of the screen). Heres’s a ...
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 ...
San Francisco Housing Market – Winter Predictions from Zephyr Real Estate
Photo Credit: Robert Campbell Photography / Chamois Moon San Francisco’s infamous Zephyr Real Estate (which happens to be the awesome company where I hang my Realtor hat) released it’s latest SF real estate newsletter. And so, I’...
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...
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...
What’s Happening in San Francisco’s Real Estate Trenches?
I was going to try to PhotoShop a bunch of Realtor’s faces on the photo above, but frankly, I have no PhotoShop skills whatsoever. I have all sorts of other talents, but PhotoShop isn’t one of them. Real estate in San Francisco usually...
A Mugging in Nob Hill – A Safety Reminder for San Franciscans
I got a very disturbing email from a friend today. It went like this: Last night as I was coming home from meeting a friend, I got mugged by two guys. It happened right outside my building. I’m okay, but they roughed me up a bit and it wa...
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...
Zephyr Real Estate Wants to Keep you Swine Flu Free
I just got an email from one of the wonderful folks on Zephyr’s management team. And it shows once again, they care about us, they really do. And since Zephyr Real Estate cares about me, and I in turn, care about you, I thought I’d als...
Noriega Street Medians Getting a Facelift
Divisadero isn’t the only place in San Francisco getting a makeover. Noriega Street was recently repaved and these little “traffic calming” medians were installed. Sadly, they sat around naked and plantless for a few months. But...
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...
Drive Safe! It’s WET Out There!
The latest text message from ALERT SF: Localized flooding throughout the City. Avoid driving through deep water. Report flooded areas to 3-1-1. Drive safe folks – for that matter, make sure you walk safe too… ...
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...
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...
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...
San Francisco’s AlertSF: Emergencies in your Inbox
I’ve talked about AlertSF before. It’s a text based emergency notification service that sends emergency updates for San Francisco. You can set it up to send text message updates just for the zip codes you care about (like where you live o...
San Francisco Real Estate - Sunshine is Peeking through the Clouds
I’ve said it a few times recently, but now everyone else seems to be saying it too, the real estate storm seems to be clearing and sunshine seems to be peeking through the clouds; the real estate market seems to be picking up and maybe, just ma...
Coming soon: THE Destination for San Francisco Real Estate on the Web
Most of you are very aware that I work for Zephyr Real Estate in San Francisco. Most of you are also aware that I think Zephyr ROCKS! Seriously – when I first started in the real estate biz in 2006 I knew right away that Zephyr wa...
Investing in San Francisco Real Estate at the Bottom
I work with a variety of clients, from first time homebuyers to seasoned investors. And the market affects each one of them differently. Recently, NuWire Investor contacted me to talk about how investors are responding to market co...
Get to Know Your San Francisco Trash
I made the mistake once of putting a pizza box into my recycling. It was an accident, but I got a nasty note from the trashman complete with a threat that they’ll never pick up my trash again if I dare make that mistake again. Coming soon...
Helping SF Bay Area Seniors Get Active
I recently got a note from Ben Lewis, founder and owner of Engage as You Age. Ben asked me to share a little info about his organization, and because we all either know someone that is older and may need a friend to get through a time that can be em...
San Francisco Sunday Streets! Penguins to Penguins!
www.SundayStreetsSF.com Come play in the streets. Sunday Streets creates a safe, fun, car-free place for people to get out and get active in San Francisco neighborhoods. Last year’s two events drew more than 15,000 people each weeken...
