San Francisco Real Estate with Matt Fuller and Friends

Can you AirBnb your place in San Francisco?   In this episode, San Francisco Real Estate Broker and expert Matt Fuller answers one of the most common questions he gets from both home buyers and current owners. And there’s a lot to consider.   Keywords   AirBnb, San Francisco, real estate, short-term rentals   Takeaways:   Get the answers to your most pressing questions aro...

Summary The resignation of Tracy Casper, NAR president, raises questions about the timing behind her departure. San Francisco Real Estate Broker Matt Fuller presents a thought-provoking analysis of the situation, shedding light on potential alternative explanations for Tracy Casper's resignation. Keywords Tracy Casper, NAR president, resignation, blackmail, lawsuit settlement, NDA, real estate, Sa...

In this episode our guest is San Francisco local business owner, past member of The Castro Merchant Association and current board president of The Castro Street Fair . Meet Jenn Meyer, owner of Local Take, a one-of-kind amazing hand-crafted local artist-maker gallery/gift store. She talks to Matt about owning a business in The Castro, her role supporting the upcoming Castro Street Fair and Why Her...

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In this episode our guest is Real estate broker Kevin Birmingham. He's founder and broker of Park North Real Estate and Past-President of the San Francisco Association of Realtors®. With more than 20 years’ experience, clients choose to work with Kevin for his full service, expertise and ethics. Kevin's insight on San Francisco's residential real estate market is unparalleled. He is known for outs...

In this episode our guest is Dr. Color, Bob Buckter. He's provided home color consulting on over 23,000 homes across the world, and more than 17,000 of those are in San Francisco and San Francisco Bay Area. He's responsible for many of the bright, standout colors of some of the city’s most iconic Victorians and Edwardians . We're talking about his beginnings in color consulting, what he likes and...

In this episode our guest is Feng Shui certified trainer and real estate stager Steve Kodad. He's a former math teacher and successful basketball trainer. He has taught thousands of real estate agents, home stagers and home owners how to sell property quickly using Feng Shui. What is Feng Shui? What are the Most Common Misconceptions About Feng Shui? How to Make Small Apartment Look Better to be i...

In this episode our guest is Brett Gladstone, Of Counsel Goldstein, Gellman, Melbostad, Harris & McSparran, LLP. For the past 35 years, Brett Gladstone has focused his practice on land use entitlement matters and real estate transactions, along with condominium and subdivision law, Mr. Gladstone represents investors and developers in land-use entitlement proceedings and CEQA compliance with re...

In this episode we are joined by Chief Mitigation Officer for the California Earthquake Authority, Janiele Maffei. She was hired as C.E.A.'s first Chief Mitigation Officer in May 2011, and became their director of research in 2015. Currently her responsibilities include managing the California Residential Mitigation Program and that program's first retrofit incentive program, known as the Earthqua...

In this episode we are joined by the Regional Leasing Director at Compass, Inna Rubinchik. You can find her as LeasingAgent415 on social media including her YouTube channel. Check out all of her amazing videos and photos of properties around San Francisco. These are some of the topics we cover in this episode with Inna: How it is to Work as a Real Estate Agent in San Francisco? Has the Leasing Mar...

In this episode we are joined by the Director of Sales at Mighty Buildings, Natalia! Mighty Buildings makes an amazing pre-fab home product that has already been installed and is in use in the bay area, across California, and elsewhere. Pre-fab homes have a ho-hum reputation in the industry, but 3D printing and other technological advances have changed the game in mighty ways. In our conversation...

In this episode Britton and I have a very special guest joining us, one of the four original founders of Zephyr Real Estate. Zephyr is where Britton and I both started in real estate, and some of my earliest memories are of hearing war stories from This industry veteran over lunch in the break room.  Our guest built Zephyr Real Estate from brand new in 1978 to the largest independent real est...

Almost a year ago another broker, my dear friend and fellow David-in-an-industry-of-Goliath’s, Kevin Birmingham, made an off-handed comment he knew I wouldn’t be able to let go about a proposition our state trade group promoted in the 1960s. Today’s episode wraps up the three-part series that grew out of that 2020 conversation. A quick review if you are just joining us: In episode 108 my...

Episode 109 Panelists, listed alpha by last name: Dena Aslanian-Williams Realtor Extraordinaire. Don't let this short bio fool you, she's a phenomenal REALTOR! with Compass Real Estate at the time of publication. Kevin Birmingham Founder, Park North Real Estate A west-side San Francisco native, Kevin is a Past President (2018) of the San Francisco Association of Realtors, the founder of Park North...

Join our host, San Francisco Real Estate Brokerage Co-Founder Matt Fuller, for a more honest-than-usual conversation about racism in California Real Estate with his friend, retired real estate broker, and fellow SFAR Past President, Don Saunders. The first in a three part series, we begin in 1963 and the passage of the Rumford Fair Housing Act, and the response from the California Real Estate Asso...

Today's guest is Brett Gladstone, Esq., 62, is a San Francisco attorney and serves as an appointee of Governor Newsom on the California Architects Board.  After graduating Harvard College magna cum laude, he earned a JD degree from Duke University School of Law in 1983. He has been a San Francisco real estate attorney for 36 years. After 8 years as a partner...

Pictures taken by a skilled photographer can tell you more about a building than hundreds of words of description can. Today’s guest is David Eichler. David is an architectural photographer who also has a familial link to Northern California’s property market through is grandfather, Joseph Eichler. Joseph was one of the most iconic property developers in the area in the 20th century. Listen in to...

What does “accessibility” really mean? Are homes that are labeled accessible really as accessible as they need to be? These are hot topics in today’s episode of Escrow Out Loud. Today’s guest is Andrew Gurza, a disability activist from Toronto. In the conversation today, Andrew talks about his own experience as a person with disabilities, the value of hiring and listening to people with disabiliti...

How's the market performing during covid 19? With about five weeks of shelter-in-place, we take a look at what's happened to market activity in San Francisco. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A look at virtual tours in the real estate industry during the SF shelter-in-place directive updated March 31, 2020. The pertinent real estate guidance from that document is below: Paragraph 13 Section f Paragraph x: Service providers that enable residential transactions (including rentals, leases, and home sales), including, but not limited to, real estate agents, escrow agents, notaries, and tit...

Is Covid-19 the end of open homes in San Francisco? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The payment of the second installment of property taxes in San Francisco is delayed until May 4, 2020. Then we go down the rabbit hole in search of how the due dates came to be, where May 4 comes from, and what is likely to happen between now and then. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Monday, April 6, 2020 Our guest today is Kevin Birmingham, founder of Park North Real Estate, fellow SFAR past president, and all around good guy. He's also an incredibly sharp person with some of the most prescient insights into SF real estate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest today is John Ebner of Opes Advisors/Flagstar Bank. Join Matt for a discussion with mortgage industry leader John Ebner about Covid-19 and how it has changed lending for residential home buyers and borrowers.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest today is Dan Hershkowitz, a local well known risk management guy who often shares his opinions and thoughts on social media. He joins us today to talk about some important items to think about when transacting real estate in the era of Covid-19. All of the forms mentioned are available to licensed Realtor practitioners in the state of CA through zipforms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...