The Artani: 818 Van Ness Avenue

Satisfy your longing for modern simplicity and stylish living. The Artani’s central San Francisco condo community features a contemporary exterior of stone and the maximum amount of glass allowed under city codes. The building is situated just steps away from the Civic Center, with easy access to Marin, East Bay and South Bay. Homes are light and spacious with highly functional floor plans and generous storage. Common and private roof decks overlook most of San Francisco including the Transamerica building and Twin Peaks. Each condo includes hardwood floors, first-rate appliances and high-end finishes. The Artani San Francisco is approved for FHA financing.

What’s coming up in San Francisco.

Upcoming listings:

$2,100,000 // Buena Vista // BR/BA: 4/3.5 PKG: 4 Brief Description: Triple-parlor Grande Scale Victorian with Chef’s kitchen opening onto terraced and landscaped garden. Detached artists studio with skylight, wired…ice Excellent condition, classy renovation done by detail freaks. This will NOT be going into MLS and is available to be shown by appointment THIS WEEKEND ONLY. This is a Very small window of opportunity for you, you clients and for me.

$1,385,000 // Lake // BR/BA: 4/4 PKG: 1 Brief Description: Spacious Condo in a 3-unit built in 2008 on 26th between Lake and California; apprx. 2400 sq. ft. on 2 levels with deeded rear yard; FIRST OPEN Sunday, 3/7Property Website (if any): www.26126thavenue.com

How to Sell One’s Home in the Shortest Time for the Highest Price

Paragon consistently achieves the highest average sales-price-to-original-list-price percentage & the lowest average days-on-market of the top 10 brokerages, when acting as listing agent.

When even a half percentage point in sales price equals thousands of dollars…

Paragon agents average 1.5% – 5.5% above other top SF brokers and 9.5% above the city’s overall average sales-price-to-original-list-price percentage of 88%.

Typically, when a buyer feels a sense of urgency to act quickly, they also offer more money. And when multiple buyers feel a sense of urgency, they bid against each other.

Paragon’s average days-on-market figure as listing agent is 5 weeks below the city average of 92 days.

Home sales include houses, condos, co-ops, tenancies in common, and 2-4 unit buildings. Sales over $3 are often confidential and distort the averages.

Hire an agent who knows how to: Price it correctly. Prepare it thoroughly. Market it comprehensively. Negotiate offers effectively. Protect your interests aggressively. It can make a difference of many tens of thousands of dollars.

What’s your ideal San Francisco neighborhood?

By: Katie Worth
Examiner Staff Writer
December 19, 2009

The Examiner compiled a range of facts and figures about neighborhoods across The City — including how much it costs to live there and the percentage of people with access to a supermarket — to show that aside from the commonly held assumptions about the areas, there are vast differences among the places San Franciscans call home.

San Francisco

Population: 808,796
Average household size: 2
Percentage of families with children under 18: 40
Percent married: 34
Violent crimes, Sept.-Dec.*: 1,103
Nonviolent crimes, Sept.-Dec.*: 5,623
Median sales price, Sept.-Nov.*: $640,000
Average rent for two-bedroom apartment*: $2,737
Median household income: $71,451
Percentage of households within half-mile of supermarket: 84

San Francisco Jazz!

Popular music: A look at San Francisco Jazz’s spring season
By Jim Harrington
jharrington@bayareanewsgroup.com
Posted: 02/18/2010 12:00:00 AM PST

The 2010 San Francisco Jazz spring season kicks off in a big way this weekend.

The festivities begin Friday with two shows, at 8 and 10:30 p.m., by Cuban pianist Issac Delgado at San Francisco’s Bimbo’s 365 Club. At 8 p.m. Saturday, retro German crooner Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester visit the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. The weekend offerings conclude with world-music/psychedelic-rock ensemble Tinariwen at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco.

Upcoming listings can brighten up any February day

Upcoming listings:

$1,299,000 // Noe Valley // BR/BA: 2/2 PKG: 2 Brief Description: Peaked Roof Victorian, beautiful view kitchen w/dining area, formal living & dining rooms, media/family room, garden level home office, and oversized walk-out deck leading to lush backyard

$875,000 // Jordan Park // BR/BA: 2/1 PKG: 1 Brief Description: Top Floor Condo in 4 unit building

$799,000 // Lake Corridor // BR/BA: 3/2 PKG: 1Brief Description: 3 level townhouse with private roof deck. Built in 2000 in 4-unit condo complex

$739,000 // Jordan Park // BR/BA: 2/1 PKG: 1 Brief Description: Darling top floor condominium with coved ceilings, FDR, FP, remodeled bath & updated kitchen. Second bedroom is small but functional as an office, guest or child room; additional storage, Available to preview week of 2/8

Broker Metrics charts running from January 2008 through January 2010

The following Broker Metrics charts run from January 2008 through January 2010. Unless specified otherwise, the charts pertain to house, condo and TICs.

San Francisco Homes for Sale: As of January 31st, at lowest level in past 2 years.

Click here to download and read the full PDF report. It’s got some useful charts.

Fast Facts

(Editor’s Note: Set forth below are Unit Sales/DOM/Monthly Supply charts for the month of November for single-family homes, condominiums and 2-4 units, as well as Supply/Demand, Sales Rate and Median Price charts for the same month.)

Single-Family Homes

Condos

2-4 Units

• Median-Price-Condo.pdf
• Median-Price-SFR-and-Condo.pdf
• Median-Price-SFR.pdf
• Sales-Rate-SFR-and-Condo.pdf
• Sales-Rate-SFR-Condo.pdf
• Sales-Rate-SFR.pdf
• Supply-and-Demand-SFR-and-Condo.pdf
• Supply-and-Demand-SFR-Condo.pdf
• Supply-and-Demand-SFR.pdf
• Units-UC-SFR-and-Condo.pdf
• Units-UC-SFR-Condo.pdf
• Units-UC-SFR.pdf

NUMBER OF UNITS is the equivalent of number of sales/transactions. For condominiums, each unit is treated as a sale. For 2- t 4-unit buildings, the “building” is treated as a sale.

NUMBER SOLD is the number of properties in the market segment that closed escrow during the month.

NUMBER FOR SALE is the number of active properties on the market for one day or more during the month.

MEDIAN PRICE (SOLD) reflects the “middle” price point of a group of properties that have successfully closed escrow on a monthly basis, i.e. half sold for more and half sold for less than the median price. Tracking the movement of median prices over time provides a good indicator of the direction market forces are moving.

If the percentage change is positive between the two periods then there is upward pressure on prices in that market segment. If the percentage change is negative between the two periods then there is downward pressure on prices in that market segment.

AVERAGE DAYS ON MARKET (DOM) reflects how long it has been taking (on average) to draw an offer on a reasonably priced property exposed to the market. The AVERAGE DAYS ON MARKET is defined as: The average number of days it took all of the properties that went under contract during the period to accept a first position offer.

MONTH’S SUPPLY OF INVENTORY (MSI) is a measure of how long it would take, in months, to sell the existing inventory at the current sales rate for the specific neighborhood and property type. The MONTH’S SUPPLY OF INVENTORY is defined as: The number of active properties on the market for one day or more during the month, less the number of properties that have been withdrawn or expired, divided by the number of properties that have gone under contract during the month.

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After 5 years…

In 2009, its 5th year in business, Paragon…

• #3 in unit sales
• #4 in dollar volume sales
• Lowest in Days on Market as Listing Agent (of top 10 brokerages)
• Highest Sales Price to original List Price percentage as Listing Agent (of top 10)
• Average home sales price: $929,000

The Market Crash – Graphically Put

There has suddenly been a lot of talk in the media about how, based upon December numbers, the housing market is faltering – and there’s talk of a “double-dip” and so on. Honestly, I have no idea what the future holds, but drawing big conclusions from 1 month’s data is nonsensical. In any case, here is a chart of SF listings going under contract. December’s ratifications did fall from the autumn, as they always do, but comparing the numbers to not only last year (crash) but to 2007, we see that December 2009 was not particularly weak, at least not here in SF.

Click here to examine the PDF of the full report.