From Your (not so) Secret Agent on the Ground

From Your (not so) Secret Agent on the Ground

My Annual San Francisco Real Estate Holiday Letter The following is this year's annual holiday letter that I send out to my real estate clients and friends. Thought you might enjoy! Thank you for taking a peek at my 10th New Year's letter. As many of you know, I've been a full-time San Francisco real estate agent for over a decade, having obtained my California real estate license at the ripe old age of 24. The combination of my age and the time at which I entered the business gives me an … [Read more...]

The San Francisco – Silicon Valley Commute via Tech Shuttle Bus

The San Francisco – Silicon Valley Commute via Tech Shuttle Bus

What a beautiful and useful map of the tech shuttle routes from San Francisco to Silicon Valley by local design firm Stamen. In real estate terms, the impact of these private bus lines shuttling the Bay Area's tech workers from San Francisco to Silicon Valley is multi-faceted:  Building community for those on the bus, Increasing house values along the routes, And decreasing traffic on the 101 and 280. And it must be said, increasing discontent amongst those neighbors who preferred … [Read more...]

That’s a lot of money! How we really earn the real estate commission…

Here she goes again, defending her fee. As you know, I like to wax poetically over at www.DanielleLazier.com about San Francisco real estate, the real estate sales process, my role as a SF Realtor and sometimes, just about my life in the big city. Today, I wrote about the commission and the true value of your real estate agent. In other words, what do you really pay us for? I had a great experience recently where I was able to significantly increase my home seller's profits through the art of … [Read more...]

If at first you don’t succeed, dust yourself off and try again. Multiple offers are back.

During the past 6 weeks, the San Francisco real estate market has picked up. I don't know if we can attribute it to tax season, Spring time cheer, or IPO fever but the home buyers are back. And as always in SF, there is little to sell them. We just don't have a lot of housing stock in this town so there are rarely very many listings on the market, regardless of "market conditions." With competition comes multiple offers. With multiple offers comes a winning bid and well, the rest of the them. … [Read more...]

We don’t take clients for the money and all of the listings are online!

We don’t take clients for the money and all of the listings are online!

But seriously, if we don't take clients for the money and if the listings are all online, what are we doing here? Pondering more on the value of a real estate agent over at daniellelazier.com, I can summarize the main value of today's Realtor by saying that we take all of the information, much of which is either overwhelming, inaccurate, misleading or all of the above, and put it into context. We break it down, organize it and make it transparent. We help you clarify what you want and help you … [Read more...]