The news this week is that San Francisco is one of the cities where housing prices more than tripled over the past 20 years, revealing that runaway housing costs are not a […]
‘The Front Steps’: No, Home Prices Have Not Really Tripled In SF
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‘The Front Steps’: How Sea Lions Helped Build the Richmond
Previously, we wrote about the very first road into the Richmond, and how this umbilical connection to the rest of the city ushered in the housing development that made the Richmond, well, […]
‘The Front Steps’: Here’s What Richmond Home Buyers Really Want
So what really attracts Richmond homebuyers? Well, we can only judge from what the data tells us; and looking at the numbers for 2022 so far, there is one figure that jumps […]
‘The Front Steps’: “Large Deadly Rocks” Afflict Sea Cliff’s Most Infamous Mansion
Not many home listings can be called infamous; of course, not many would want to be, but you don’t get to pick and choose your accolades. The once-ritzy property at 224 Sea […]
‘The Front Steps’: Renting In the Richmond Costs Nearly $4,000/month
San Francisco is a renter’s city–has been since 1849. The Richmond is no exception: Per Planning Department estimates, as many as 68 percent of Inner Richmond homes are renter occupied, and for […]
‘The Front Steps’: The Very First Road Into the Richmond
The most important thing about housing is actually transit–you’re never going to sell a house nobody can get to, and even to this day, homes in SF’s western neighborhoods struggle with the […]
‘The Front Steps’: Our February Richmond Realty Report
February, we hardly knew ye. The shortest month of 2022 has already come and gone, so let’s see what the home market in the Richmond looked like. We’re going to break things […]
‘The Front Steps’: Victorians vs Edwardians (the Richmond Guide)
There’s a lot more to San Francisco architecture (and the Richmond in particular) than just the Victorians. But that’s still all some people are interested in–and really, who can blame them? Sometimes […]
‘The Front Steps’: Inner, Outer, Central–Where In the Richmond Is Real Estate Hottest?
Is the Richmond one neighborhood, or is it three–Inner, Outer, and Central? In semantic terms, we could debate this all day; but in real estate terms the answer is three–please forward your […]
‘The Front Steps’: Richmond Homes Are Selling In Less Than Two Weeks
If realtors and housing watchers obsess over anything more than price, it’s the inescapable metric of DOM–the number of days on the market. In fact, some people can get downright superstitious about […]
‘The Front Steps’: A Brief Guide To Richmond Overbids
At The Front Steps, we’re always a little bit fascinated by the phenomena of overbids–those homes that sell for more than they’re originally listed for, sometimes to a fantastic degree. Our weekly […]
‘The Front Steps’: Only 0.7 Percent of New SF Housing Is In the Richmond
Few things get housing watchers hotter under the collar than the question of whether and how we should be building more homes on San Francisco’s west side. Be you for the proposal […]
‘The Front Steps’: Richmond Celebrity Homes–The Metallica Collection
Celebrity homes are a guilty pleasure of many SF housing watchers, but the Richmond does not get as many gilded homeowners as some neighborhoods–you win some, you lose some. But until just […]
‘The Front Steps’: What Is the Most Expensive Richmond Home of All Time?
This is not as straightforward of a question as it seems. For one thing, it depends on what source we’re relying on: The standard (and easiest) authority on home-selling is the go-to […]
‘The Front Steps’: Meet the Richmond’s Oldest Home Listing
There are a lot of ways to make your listing stand out, but there’s only one that neither the seller nor the realtor can achieve all on their own: longevity. The #B […]
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