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Real Estate Sold: Top Three Residential Property Sales for the Past Seven Days

Tuesday, May 21, 2013, by Sally Kuchar

Listed for: $2,995,000
Received: $2,995,000
Size: 4-bed, 3-bath, 2,365 sq. ft. co-op
Location: #1801 at 1000 North Point St., Russian Hill
The skinny: "FRONT ROW seat for America's Cup," reads the listing. And it's true. Amazing waterfront views aside, this Mid-Century modern cooperative penthouse features a step out balcony that spans the entire north side of the apartment, and a flexible, open floorplan.

Listed for: $2,850,000
Received: $3,200,000
Size: 5-bed, 4-bath, 3,432 sq. ft. single-family home
Location: 2866 Pine St., Lower Pac Heights
The skinny: This big abode landed on the market on April 12 and went into contract less than two weeks later. Last week it sold for a quarter million over asking.

Listed for: $3,125,000
Received: $3,800,000
Size: 5-bed, 3-bath, single-family home
Location: 3867 Washington St., Presidio Heights
The skinny: Listed on April 11 and into contract 11 days later, this home sold last week for a jaw-dropping $675K over asking.

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Real Estate Sold: Top Three Residential Property Sales for the Past Seven Days

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Listed for: $2,750,000
Received: $2,750,000
Size: 3-bed, 3.5-bath, 2,877 square foot condo
Location: 2044 Green, Pacific Heights
The skinny: This house looks all its 122 years on the outside, but the interiors have been extensively nipped and tucked to bring the home up to today's modern standards.

Listed for: $3,595,000
Received: $3,050,000
Size: 3-bed, 2-bath, 6,200 square foot penthouse
Location: 9 Bernice, SoMa
The skinny: Featured in the Chron and the Wall Street Journal, this amazing property offers up total aesthetic stimulation. We wonder if the new owner(s) will keep any of the furnishings/decor?

Listed for: $4,950,000
Received: $4,300,000
Size: 3-bed, 3-bath, 2,706 square foot condo
Location: 301 Mission Street, Unit 54A, SoMa
The skinny: This is a North/West corner unit at the Millennium Tower. The third bedroom's been converted into a library. Monthly HOA dues are a mind-numbing $1,485.

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Real Estate Sold: Top Three Residential Property Sales for the Past Seven Days

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, November 20, 2012, by Sally Kuchar

Listed for: $2,750,000
Received: $2,750,000
Size: 3-bed, 3.5-bath, 2,877 square foot condo
Location: 2044 Green, Pacific Heights
The skinny: This house looks all its 122 years on the outside, but the interiors have been extensively nipped and tucked to bring the home up to today's modern standards.

Listed for: $3,595,000
Received: $3,050,000
Size: 3-bed, 2-bath, 6,200 square foot penthouse
Location: 9 Bernice, SoMa
The skinny: Featured in the Chron and the Wall Street Journal, this amazing property offers up total aesthetic stimulation. We wonder if the new owner(s) will keep any of the furnishings/decor?

Listed for: $4,950,000
Received: $4,300,000
Size: 3-bed, 3-bath, 2,706 square foot condo
Location: 301 Mission Street, Unit 54A, SoMa
The skinny: This is a North/West corner unit at the Millennium Tower. The third bedroom's been converted into a library. Monthly HOA dues are a mind-numbing $1,485.

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Real Estate Sold: Top Three Residential Property Sales for the Past Seven Days

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Listed for: $2,275,000
Received: $2,150,000
Size: 3-bed, 3-bath, 2,251 square foot condo
Location: #13 at 550 Davis Street, FiDi
The skinny: This duplex overlooks Sydney Walton Park. It was remodeled in 2012. Of the three bedrooms, one has been converted into a home theater and the other into a home office.

Listed for: $3,095,000
Received: $2,600,000
Size: 3-bed, 2.5-bath, 2,896 square foot condo
Location: 2462 Broadway, Pacific Heights
The skinny: This condo's been on and off the market since June of 2011. It's significantly dropped it's price several times, and the last chop to $2,699,000 must have done the trick because it sold on Friday.

Listed for: $4,200,000
Received: $3,660,000
Size: 4-bed, 3.5-bath, 4,609 square foot single-family home
Location: 3878 Jackson Street, Presidio Heights
The skinny: This big abode has been on and off the market since late 2008 without a single bite. It's last listed price was $3,850,000, which seemed to work as it sold on Friday.

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Best Real Estate “For Sale” Sign Ever

Posted by Jonathan Miller - Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 11:26 AM

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[NYT Business Day Live] Luxury Real Estate As Art?

Posted by Jonathan Miller - Saturday, September 1, 2012, 6:00 AM

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I enjoyed the interview of James B. Stewart and Alexei Barrionuevo by Louise Story (best last name a reporter could ever have), on the topic of luxury real estate in the New York Times Business Day Live video series. Mr. Stewart (author of Den of Thieves – one of my favorite books of all time) penned “The Market for Real Estate Masterpieces” exploring the idea of high end real estate as art based on Alexei’s high end housing market coverage of the past year, including the $100M listing (including the upset interior designer), the $88M sale and the >$90M contract among others.

Here was my take on the “Art as Real Estate” angle in Mr. Stewart’s column:

“When people refer to their real estate as art, they’re really trying to say it’s unique, that it can’t be replicated.”

He said he’s seen the phenomenon not just in New York, but also Miami, London, Los Angeles and other markets where investors “are looking for safety in a world of turmoil and uncertainty.”

But, he said, “they’re confusing price with art. You’d think that titans of industry would be very individualistic about their acquisitions, but at the very top, there’s a herd mentality. You get one or two very large transactions that grab headlines and then it’s like a light switch goes off. In New York, this happened in the second half of 2010, and since then it’s been very intense. The size of what’s happening is unprecedented. How long can this go on? You see this kind of behavior and you have to wonder.”

New York Times Business Day Live August 31,2012 [New York Times]
Common Sense: The Market for Real Estate Masterpieces [New York Times]
Reaching for $100M [New York Times]
Other Luxury Real Estate articles by Alexei Barrionuevo [New York Times]

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Real Estate Sold: Top Three Residential Property Sales For the Past Seven Days

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, September 25, 2012, by Sally Kuchar

Listed for: $1,850,000
Received: $1,975,000!
Size: 3-bed, 3-bath, 2,953 sq. ft. single-family home
Location: 1410 Jefferson Street, Marina
The skinny: This home made its first appearance on the market in 30 years. It's location is highly desirable because of its close proximity to the Marina Green and St. Francis Yacht Club.

Listed for: $2,475,000
Received: $2,475,000
Size: 3-bed, 3.5-bath, single-family home
Location: 131 3rd Ave, Lake
The skinny: Possibly our favorite listing description of the year goes to the this property, as it's pretty ridiculous. Our favorite line is "With the excitement of a child & the curiosity of a cat you wander hither & yon falling more in love with every step you take!" Tone it down, Debi DiCello of Alain Pinel Realtors.

Listed for: $5,400,000
Received: $7,350,000!
Size: 6-bed, 7.5-bath, single-family home
Location: 2430 Vallejo Street, Pacific Heights
The skinny: An absolutely stunning brown shingled home. The home features a remodeled kitchen and family room. There's an elevator to all four levels. There are three decks, and some of them overlook the gardens that were designed by Thomas Church.

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Celebrity Real Estate: The New York Observer dug up...

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AM Linkage: Buying Real Estate in Berkeley For $1.00; Hayes Valley Gets Some New Public Art; BART Weirdness; More!

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Real Estate Sold: Top Three Residential Property Sales For the Past Seven Days

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, July 24, 2012, by Sally Kuchar

Listed for: $2,450,000
Received: $2,400,000
Size: 3-bed, 2.75-bath, 3,172-square-feet
Location: 4570 19th Street, Eureka Valley
The skinny: First listed on May 31st, the home went into contract in less than two weeks. We're not entirely sure why it didn't at least get its asking price, as homes in this neighborhood are going for hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking. According to one agent, the garage is "at the rear of the property and is accessible through an easement in the middle of the block. Probably too far away from the house to make it practical to use for everyday parking." Parking. It's always about parking.

Listed for: $2,595,000
Received: $2,500,000
Size: 4-bed, 4-bath, 2,912-square-feet
Location: 430 Hill Street, Eureka Valley
The skinny: Another big and beautiful Eureka Valley home that accepted an offer below its asking price. This home went into contract less than a month after being listed.

Listed for: $25,000,000
Received: $17,000,000
Size: 4-bed, 7.5-bath, unlisted square footage
Location: 2808 Broadway Street, Pacific Heights
The skinny: This big house is located on Billionaire's Row, home to the very rich like the Getty family, Larry Ellison, and a few other bazillionaires. The neo-Tudor brick and stone home was built in 1927 by Willis Polk & Company, the successor firm to architect Willis Polk who died in 1924. This is the second most expensive sale of the year.

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On the Market: Now's Your Chance to Purchase One of the Very Few Pieces of Celebrity Real Estate in San Francisco

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Friday, July 20, 2012, by Sally Kuchar We gave you the heads up on Wednesday that Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin and his husband Christopher Turner would be putting their home on the market this week, and here it is in all its glory. The couple is moving to Santa Fe. The 3-bed, 2-bath, 1,606 square foot shingled Craftsman/Edwardian-style abode was built in 1906. Mr. Maupin picked it up in 1993, when he purchased it for $615,000. He's asking $1,198,000. The Parnassus Heights location is perched high atop San Francisco, so the home has views galore of downtown, Marin, and the Bay. It was in this home that Maupin wrote three New York Times bestselling novels. Maupin's most autobiographical novel, The Night Listener, published in 2000, is largely set at 27 Belmont Avenue, as described in this excerpt:

Out of habit I approached the house from the sidewalk across the street, where I could see it in context: three narrow stories noticed into the wooden slope. Its new cedar shingles were still too pallid for its dark green trim, but another season or two of rain would turn them into tarnished silver. I'd be eagerly awaiting that. I'd wanted the place to look ancestral, as if we had lived there forever.

Want to see it in person? There's an open house on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 4PM.
· Author Armistead Maupin is About to List [Curbed SF]
· Armistead Maupin Sells in San Francisco [The Real Estalker]
· 27 Belmont [Redfin] 27 Belmont Avenue, San Francisco, CA

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Real Estate Sold: Top Three Residential Property Sales For the Past Seven Days

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, June 26, 2012, by Sally Kuchar

Listed for: $3,300,000
Received: $3,025,000
Size: 3-bed, 3-bath, 2,027-square-feet
Location: Unit #31A at the St. Regis Residences, Yerba Buena (or SoMa if you're a traditionalist)
The skinny: This unit's actually been on the market since May of 2011, and its last price drop brought it down to a more humble $3,300,000. Monthly HOA dues are $2,330. Before you freak out, realize that this is a unit in the St. Regis, where amenities include in-room dining, pool, gym, Remede Spa, concierge services, butler services, and unlimited valet parking. We should point out that you just get access to some of the fancier amenities. Using the gym is free, having a spa day at Remede is not. There's 1-car parking in the garage if you want to shell out an additional $225 each month.

Listed for: $4,350,000
Received: $4,350,000
Size: 3-bed, 3.5-bath, 2,542-square-feet
Location: Unit #29E at the St. Regis Residences, Yerba Buena (again with "it could qualify as SoMa if you want" thing)
The skinny: There is too much orange in this condo's interior for us to focus on anything else. Monthly HOA dues are $2,555 and there's 1-car parking in the garage for an additional $225 per month.

Listed for: $7,150,000
Received: $6,550,000
Size: 5-bed, 4.5-bath, unlisted square footage
Location: 2980 Vallejo Street, Pacific Heights
The skinny: This English cottage-style home was designed by Edgar Mathews for himself in 1907. It's the oldest house on the block, and is located on the Vallejo St. cul-de-sac adjacent to the Presidio and Lyon Street steps.

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Real Estate Sold: Top Three Residential Property Sales For the Past Seven Days

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, June 5, 2012, by Sally Kuchar

Listed for: $3,500,000
Received: $3,500,000
Size: 3-bed, 3-bath, unlisted square footage
Location: Unit 31B at the Infinity Tower I, South Beach
The skinny: Listed in late March, went pending three weeks later. This is one of the coveted northeast condos at the Infinity because of its magical views of the Bay Bridge. Monthly HOA dues are $815, and cover amenities like the gigantic (we really do mean gigantic) gym, movie theater, concierges, etc.

Listed for: $4,200,000
Received: $4,200,000
Size: 3-bed, 5-bath, 3,679-square-feet
Location: 1023 Vallejo Street, Russian Hill
The skinny: We've done plenty of documentation of this incredible Julia Morgan property. Click here to read our first post about it.

Listed for: $8,800,000
Received: $8,800,000
Size: 5-bed, 5.5-bath, unlisted square footage
Location: 2600 Lyon Street, Cow Hollow
The skinny: This 4-story home has undergone a very serious contemporary remodel on the inside. There's all sorts of textures and no surface has been left untouched. Additionally, there are views galore and its located directly across the road from the Presidio.

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Best Real Estate “For Sale” Sign Ever

Posted by Jonathan Miller - Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 11:26 AM

Getting to the point in Knoxville, TN.

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[Interview] Jonathan D. Miller, Miller Ryan LLC, Author, Emerging Trends in Real Estate

Posted by Jonathan Miller -Sunday, December 26, 2010, 3:23 PM
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I got to interview my namesake, Jonathan Miller who is the longtime author of the seminal publication Emerging Trends in Real Estate, the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) annual commercial real estate industry forecast and speaks extensively on suburban and urban issues.

Our real estate lives have intersected for years.  For example, I would get complimented for a presentation at the Waldorf Hotel (although he gave the speech) while he would get inquiries about the NYC co-op condo market (which I track).

He is the co-founder of Miller Ryan LLC, a firm that provides strategic marketing communications counsel to the financial services and real estate industries.  He also writes over at GlobeSt.com on his Trend Czar blog.

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Real Estate Sold: Three Top Residential Sales For the Past Week

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, May 1, 2012, by Philip Ferrato

There were 87 closings this past week. Here are the three most expensive. Two of them, both Pacific Heights— a co-op and a condo— sold for under asking after languishing on the market. Is this a trend?

Listed for: $4,350,000
Received: $4,000,000
Size: 3-beds, 3-baths
Location: 1940 Broadway, No.6, Pacific Heights
The Story: One of those vast, full-floor co-ops that some people dream about, with incredible views, this sold seven months after listing for $200,000 less than the owners paid in March, 2011 and a whopping $911,000 less than the previous owner paid in March, 2008. March is the cruelest month. Probably unrenovated since the '50s, this looks like a succession of rich-people holds and we seriously doubt anyone's lived there since 2007.

Listed for: $2,995,000
Received: $3,005,000
Size: 4-beds, 3.5-baths
Location: 1340 Cole Street, Parnassus/Cole Valley
The Story: This "sophisticated" if somewhat bland Edwardian house in the "heart of Cole Valley" went for $10K over asking. Great bathrooms, however. There may have been a bidding war— or skirmish— over the move-in ready house, which closed in under six weeks. Well done!

Listed for: $1,849,000
Received: $1,780,000
Size: 3-bed, 3-bath
Location: 2635 Buchanan Street, Pacific Heights
The Story: In a 2-unit Edwardian building, this big classic flat with a garden sold within about six weeks, but it had been on the market for six months back in 2011. The sellers paid $1,780,000 for the condo in 2007, and this time around they had to pay the agent's fee and transfer taxes.

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Real Estate Sold: Top Three Residential Property Sales For the Past Seven Days

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, April 10, 2012, by Sally Kuchar

Listed for: $2,195,000
Received: $1,925,000
Size: 5-bed, 4-bath; 3,528 square feet
Location: 1521 Baker Street, Lower Pacific Heights
The skinny: This big abode has actually been on the market since June of 2010, but it's last known asking price was $2,195,000 in November of 2011. The home has been completely remodeled and has "luxury" home features like a chef's kitchen with "state-of-the-art professional appliances" for when you want to fry an egg before you head off to work. Home highlights include a library alcove and large rear garden. There's also a one bedroom inlaw on the lower level.

Listed for: $3,395,000
Received: $3,400,000!
Size: 4-bed, 3.5-bath; 3,708 square feet
Location: 2940 Jackson Street, Pacific Heights
The skinny: This home was designed by architect Ernest Coxhead and built in 1894. While the home recently underwent a pretty intense remodel, we're happy to report that it most of its original charm is still apparent.

Listed for: $7,950,000
Received: $7,000,000
Size: 13-bed, 14-bath; 20,000 square feet
Location: 1000 Fulton Street, Alamo Square
The skinny: Click here for complete deets on the sale.

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Real Estate Sold: Condos at The Washington Are Quickly Selling

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Wednesday, April 11, 2012, by Sally Kuchar

It looks like at least four condos at The Washington (which is currently on our Where To Buy Now map) have sold since landing on the market in late March. The 26-unit building in Pacific Heights is brand new steel-frame construction. All received asking.

Unit #403 is a 1-bed, 1-bath, 830 square foot condo with monthly HOA dues of $410. It sold in late March for $779,000.

Unit #601 is a 2-bed, 2-bath, 923 square foot condo with monthly HOA dues of $429. It sold for $1,014,300.

Unit #701 is a 2-bed, 2-bath, 923 square foot condo with monthly HOA dues of $429. It sold for $1,053,500.

Unit #702 is a 2-bed, 2-bath, 985 square foot unit with monthly HOA dues o $442. It sold for $1,122,100.

We'd like to point out that all but one of these units is clocking in at over $1,000 per square foot. (Unit #403 is $931 per square.)
· Condos: Where To Buy Right Now [Curbed SF]
· 1840 Washington, #403 [Redfin]
· 1840 Washington, #601 [Redfin]
· 1840 Washington, #701 [Redfin]
· 1840 Washington, #702 [Redfin]

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