May 7th 2010 4:00PM
The San Francisco Giants are off to a hot start this season, making the prospect of living near the team's ballpark an especially appealing adventure. This condo at 657 Third St. is two blocks from AT&T Park, and you can just hear the stadium calling your name as you walk by on a game day -- or is that crowd noise? Continue Reading »
Apr 26th 2010 3:30PM
Every time I visit a big city, I like to spend a week doing nothing more than going to a live theater performance every night, with sightseeing and a fancy dinner wrapped around it. For $499,000 in San Francisco that can be done by buying a home within walking distance of its theater district, allowing you a place to stay... Continue Reading »
Apr 24th 2010 1:00PM
For millionaires it must always be a good time to enter the housing market. After all, they can still afford a home when prices are high, and now that they're low again, million-dollar bargains abound. Recent price drops in San Francisco's Telegraph Hill make the area worth looking at again. I recently wrote about a... Continue Reading »
Apr 19th 2010 3:00PM
You've got to love San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. This is where it all happened, man, during the Summer of Love. You can take a walking tour of The Haight, as it's called, and come across houses where the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix lived. Located near the Panhandle and Golden Gate Park, the... Continue Reading »
Apr 12th 2010 5:00PM
Living in the San Francisco neighborhood of Pacific Heights is expensive. Home prices average $3.1 million, and some mansions price for as high as $13.5 million. But for less than $2 million, we found three excellent homes in Pacific Heights. Much of the affluent neighborhood was built after the 1906 earthquake, although... Continue Reading »
