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Articles Written by: BETSY SCHIFFMAN
Turns out that violent crime is a great way to knock more than $100,000 off a home's asking price.
Case in point: 512 Stanford Ave. in Redwood City, the site of a triple homicide in June 2008. After initially being put on the market at $337,000, the ...
From BETSY SCHIFFMAN, TRACEY TAYLOR,
San Francisco Chronicle,
9 Aug 2009
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Given that the foreclosure market has helped fuel home sales over the year, it seems crazy that any real estate broker in his or her right mind would refuse that business. A sale ...
A new listing in El Cerrito is worth a second look, if only for its architectural pedigree, and the fact that it is in a particularly beautiful location. And interesting midcentury modern homes don't come on the market very often in the Bay ...
From TRACEY TAYLOR, BETSY SCHIFFMAN,
San Francisco Chronicle,
12 Jul 2009
The house, which is owned by former Advanced Micro Devices President and Chief Operating Officer Saiyed Atiq Raza, according to public records, comes with a slew of lavish luxuries such as "staff quarters," parking for 20-plus cars, an elevator and a ...
A proposal to replace Palo Alto Bowl, formerly known as Fiesta Lanes, with a four-story 167-room hotel and 26 duplex-style condos got the official go-ahead from the Planning and Transportation Commission last week. If it sounds like a large project ...
From BETSY SCHIFFMAN, TRACEY TAYLOR,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 Jun 2009
While many are in denial, 60 percent of those surveyed by Zillow, a real estate Web site, said they believed their properties lost value over the last 12 months. Eighteen percent think their home's value has increased, and 22 percent think the value of ...
Well, now you can, as Mayor Newsom's one-bedroom penthouse apartment has just hit the market, with a hefty $2,995,000 price tag.
The pad, at 1101 Green St. No. 2001, is in Russian Hill's Bellaire Tower, an Art Deco-style building designed by H.C. ...
From TRACEY TAYLOR, BETSY SCHIFFMAN,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 May 2009
Monday - more than five weeks later - Ocwen sent out a press release claiming that it "is among the first servicers (if not the first) in the country to begin executing loan modifications under the U.S. Treasury Department's new Home Affordable ...
From CAROLYN SAID, BETSY SCHIFFMAN, TRACEY TAYLOR,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 Apr 2009
We're starting to see signs of life in the real estate market - prices have supposedly stabilized, and in some markets, multiple offers are becoming common again.
But there is plenty of room in some markets for prices to come down further. Take, for ...
In Oakland, the world's your oyster if you have $300,000 to spend. There are literally hundreds of properties for sale in that price bracket, starting at $50,000 for a one-bedroom home on 18th Street.
Here are two new listings that allow for ...
From TRACEY TAYLOR, BETSY SCHIFFMAN,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Apr 2009
