February 23, 2007

Sweet Digs: Who Says I Can’t Afford It?

I’m convinced that the Bay Area is a place full of looky-loos, where the high price of housing has made homeownership a dream for a large segment of the population. The upwardly mobile here chase after those on an even faster track. It’s a place where looking up SEC filings to figure out what an exec is worth is about as common as visiting open houses of homes you can’t afford, well, at least not until your stock options are worth something.

Case in point: Redfin’s most popular property list in Seattle is littered everyday with bargains and fixers, which go on to collect offers from home buyers. Not to disparage our Bay Area users (I know what our demographic is there) but the properties that receive the most clicks are mega mansions and high end condos like this $1,349,000 two bedroom Edwardian on 36 Divisadero Street in San Francisco.

It’s achingly pretty but I’ll let the photos speak for themselves. There’s an open house this Sunday from 2-4PM if you’d like to see it in person.

Recent posts in Sweet Digs Bay Area:
Berkeley: A Fish Out of Water
Berkeley: It’s Hip But It’s Not Happening
Sebastopol: Starry, Starry Night.
Mid-Peninsula: Open Houses This Weekend