San Francisco Real Estate with Matt Fuller and Friends

Small rooms, smaller closets, chamber pots and formal dining rooms. Welcome to another episode of Escrow Out Loud, our San Francisco Real Estate podcast. On this week’s Thanksgiving episode we talk about houses and house styles! The layout of a home often reflects the cultural values, attitudes or norms of the time period and what people want out of their houses has changed significantly in San Fr...

Britton, I Need A Man To Sell My House. Or, sexism in real estate.  How would you respond to the following comment: “It’s too complicated, I need a man to handle it.” Is sexism in real estate okay? Is it okay if an older person says it? Do generational differences excuse sexism in real estate? Would you give it a pass if it was coming from another man? How about a woman? Should we be giving commen...

A legend exists in San Francisco about a secret, tree-lined, magical area of affordable houses. Off-market homes for sale in San Francisco - opportunity or offal? Personally, we don’t know of any magical place with easily affordable San Franciscso real estate, but we sure wish we did. Welcome to another episode of Escrow Out Loud, our San Francisco Real Estate podcast. This week we talk about non-...

Pets in condos. Cats. Chinchillas. Iguanas. Dogs. San Francisco is, after all, rumored to have more dogs than children. What happens when dangerous animals roam the halls? Or when innocent Fido gets heavier than the building weight limit? This week on Escrow Out Loud, our San Francisco Real Estate podcast, we talk about a subject that’s near and dear to a lot of people’s hearts – pets and homeowne...

A Realtor in San Francisco is required to present each and every offer received on the property, right? Well, not exactly. While a seller can absolutely be discriminating in the review of offers, they may not discriminate on an illegal basis.  This week on Escrow Out Loud, our San Francisco Real Estate podcast, we talk about offers. Does a Listing Agent Have to Present My Offer to the Seller? Ther...

Loyalty, confidentiality and the exercise of the utmost care are just a few of our duties to our clients, what are some others? This week on Escrow Out Loud, our San Francisco Real Estate podcast, we talk about one of the most important, and at the same time least understood, concepts in real estate – agency relationships. Welcome and hello to our new listeners, you might want to Begin at the Begi...

Should you walk into an open house and ask the agent standing there to write an offer for you? That's the heart of this week's episode. But first... Matt and Britton have started a new real estate brokerage, Jackson Fuller Real Estate! Congrats to Matt and Britton for their new San Francisco real estate offices in the Westfield at 845 Market St., Suite 450. It[s quite a drive from their old office...

Welcome to Escrow Out Loud, our San Francisco real estate podcast! In previous episodes we've touched on some interesting behavior from clients, but what happens when agents themselves are behaving badly? In what might become a recurring theme, welcome to this edition of Agents Behaving Badly! After listening to Episode 4 – Bye Felicia about a bad BMR listing agent some delightful clients from Shi...

Private showings. Open Houses. When a buyer is ready to buy, they obviously want to see homes. What happens in homes across San Francisco during private showings? Generally, nothing of note. But every now and again, something unexpected does happen. In this episode of Escrow Out Loud, our San Francisco Real Estate podcast, we talk about some of our more sketchy showings from decades of listing and...

How are open houses in San Francisco different to other markets? In this episode of Escrow Out Loud, our San Francisco Real Estate podcast, we talk about how open houses in a seller’s market such as San Francisco – really do – sell houses. Open houses do more than just sell homes in SF - take a few minutes and listen in to what unexpected bonuses open homes can provide!  Episode 10! We've made it...

Above a Bar? In the middle of an industrial neighborhood? Off a lobby? Through a garage? What are some of the weirder places you would live? Is hiring a crane to move your furniture in a deal breaker? Give a San Franciscan a little bit of space, and pretty soon you'll have a pretty awesome home. San Franciscan's are creative urban dwellers, and we chat about a few of the more challenging places an...

Cash changes everything. Why do sellers like cash offers? If all sales are all-cash to the seller at the end of the day (one of Britton's least favorite sayings), what's the difference? In this episode of Escrow Out Loud, our San Francisco Real Estate podcast, we look at all cash offers for San Francisco homes. From the dynamics of an individual purchase to the way a competitive market changes in...

In this episode - Elevators! As a little kid, Matt wasn't much of a fan of elevators. As a little person, he still isn't. City life is a vertical life here in San Francisco, and every broker's tour or property tour involves lots of stairs and typically a few elevators. From historic old buildings with accordion-style safety gates that you latch yourself, to the most modern of elevators that whisk...

In this episode - It's About Time! Time is of the essence, and weekends and holidays count! A real estate offer has two basic components - price and terms. OTime is one of the most important terms in a real estate offer, and timing is to the offer process as location is to the actual home. In other words, while life in your new home might be all about location, location, location, making a deal ha...

In this episode - it's all relative! No, this isn't a science podcast where we discuss Einstein's theory of relativity. This is a San Francisco real estate podcast where homes in San Francisco look large because, in relative size, homes in San Francisco are generally bigger than a boat. Episode 05: Bigger Than A Boat If you've been spending your months on the high seas, a one-bedroom home in San F...

In this episode of our San Francisco real estate podcast Escrow Out Loud with Matt Fuller and Britton Jackson we discuss Below Market Rate homes (BMR) in San Francisco. This podcast looks back at a particular transaction at a particular point in time (2012) with a particular agent that we shall name... Felicia! Episode 04: Bye Felicia! Below Market Rate homes are condo homes in San Francisco with...

Episode 03: Buyers Are Liars? It's a slogan we've heard out of mouths both cynical and not in real estate: Buyers are Liars. Is it true, or is it like the lego movie suggests: It is so because it rhymes? ** (Matt can't quote movie lyrics verbatim.) So I ask Britton - is that her experience? And with a variety of great stories (in our humble opinion) we explore if it is true that buyers or liars, o...

You Never Know, Episode 02. Welcome to this edition of our San Francisco real estate podcast with team co-founders Matt Fuller and Britton Jackson. Episode 02: You Never Know It's a truism in real estate that You Never Know. What can happen when you go to the dog park? In San Francisco real estate, you never know! Will you find a stray dog? a new client? a business partner? What can happen when yo...

We've seen some fascinating things over the decades we've spent helping buyers and sellers buy and sell San Francisco real estate . Without revealing names, addresses, or other identifying details, this San Francisco real estate podcast will pull the curtain back just a bit to give you an inside look at San Francisco real estate purchases and sales. From the Mission to the Excelsior (where each of...