Having worked for a newspaper many years ago, (The Washington Post), I know the value of a great headline to draw in readers. For many months now, we have seen headline after headline about the looming housing crisis in the Bay Area (and across the country). Challenging to find optimistic news unless one is willing to weed through the data highlighted in these articles. On Sunday, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a piece on San Francisco neighborhoods http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/11/BUEIT8TIB.DTL. Some neighborhoods are still hot and receiving multiple offers especially if the home has been well maintained, staged, and updated or remodeled (and, or course, priced competitively).
Full disclosure, I have a listing coming on the market in the Sunset. A single family home, well maintained, recent upgrades, staged, and a view property to boot (and in a great neighborhood). Check back here for updates on this property and other neighborhood sales activities.