So I woke up this morning to NPR singing that the new S&P/Case-Shiller Index is out and San Francisco is down over thirteen percent?!!!  My heart skipped a beat for a second because I was half asleep and I had a mini panic attack thinking ‘When did San Francisco drop so much when I wasn’t looking?  That hasn’t been my experience in this market where did that number come from?’  Then I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and woke …

Sometimes it would appear that way per all the negative press that abounds regarding real estate. NOT that I am burying my head in the sand – there’s no question a good chunk of California is experiencing some serious pains, and even here in SF where in 14 years, I rarely if ever, saw a short sale until last October; I’ll admit to it becoming far less of the rare example, at least for the southern part of the city. …