San Francisco

 

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: Makes me want

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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

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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

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Ground zero for Haight Street in San Francisco isn’t necessarily the corner of Haight and Ashbury. It’s the corner of Haight and Stanyan, where Haight ends and dumps into Golden Gate Park. This is the true ground zero for the gentrification wars, where hipsters congregate to talk up their latest Amoeba acquisitions and holdout hippies

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