New York has co-ops. San Francisco has TICs, which are an equally confusing property ownership type, but a big part of the market in San Francisco. Scott James, a San Francisco correspondent for the New York Times, just wrote a very informative piece on the topic.
Posts Tagged ‘San Francisco’
Revisiting Epic Car Chase: WATCH Steve ‘Bullitt’ McQueen Tear Up San Francisco
The Wall Street Journal just did a great tribute to one of the best movie car chases of all time. Some Friday awesomeness for you below: watch Steve McQueen as Bullitt going wild on San Francisco streets. I wish only for one day they’d let me do this. Also here’s an HD version but they [...]
Hipster-To-Hippie Diagram (A Bit of Fun To End Chaotic Market Week)
This week has been quite gut wrenching in the markets, so it’s time for a bit of fun. This awesome diagram originated on San Francisco blog TheBoldItalic along with a good piece on the demise of Hippie Hill—which is the meadow and accompanying hill as you enter Golden Gate Park off Haight Street. It’s a [...]
27 palo alto lights
count ‘em up. there are 27 palo alto lights in this picture.
Bay Area Home Purchase Incentives, The Good & Bad
This San Francisco Chronicle story on home purchase incentives offered by Bay Area cities has been sent to me a few times today. This is a good piece reviewing options and highlighting some success stories.
Return on Stocks vs. San Francisco Property: Jan 2000 to Oct 2009
Someone sent the graph below comparing stock indices to San Francisco Real Estate form 2000 to present. Obviously there are a lot of assumptions here and this cannot dictate any individual’s property investment decision, but worthy of debate. One of The Basis Point’s investment management contributors had this to say about it:
How Do I Appeal My Property Taxes (In San Francisco)?
For Californians, property taxes aren’t automatically adjusted to market levels like many other states because Prop 13 imposes a cap on property taxes as the price of your home goes up. But if the price of your home has decreased and you want to appeal your property taxes in San Francisco, below are some good [...]
How to Buy A Home With Less Than 20% Down
Here are two market realities as we conclude year two of the ongoing credit crunch: Dow and S&P 500 indices tell us stocks are down 40%, and the S&P Case Shiller Home Price Index tells us single family home prices are down 33% since their 2Q2006 peak, putting prices at mid-2003 levels. So home pricing [...]
