Buyer Guides
Seasonality in the San Francisco Real Estate Market
When San Francisco homes list, when they sell, and when buyers face the least competition. How the seasons shape price, timing and strategy for buyers and sellers.
The Fuller Team at Compass · Broker Associate · DRE #01342261
Matt Fuller
Broker Associate at Compass, selling San Francisco since 2002. 2017 President of the SF Association of REALTORS®. Dad, husband, dog person, and the guy who knows the building.
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Buyer Guides
Energy and Water Conservation Disclosures in SF Real Estate
San Francisco requires energy and water conservation compliance when homes change hands. What sellers need to do, what buyers should check, and who pays.
Insider
Buyer Guides
Your Guide to a San Francisco Real Estate Disclosure Package
What’s in a typical San Francisco disclosure package, what each document tells you, and the questions to ask before you write an offer.
Buyer Guides
San Francisco 2025 Condo Values by Neighborhood
Median condo values across San Francisco neighborhoods for 2025, and what explains the gaps between them.
Condo
Pre-1975 Buildings & SF Fire Code Update
San Francisco's pre-1975 high-rise sprinkler mandate, updated for 2026: the new 2032 permit deadline, the city's first real cost study and the new advisory council weighing alternatives.
Buyer Guides
San Francisco 2025 Single Family Home Market Trends by Neighborhood
2025 single-family home trends across San Francisco neighborhoods: prices, pace and where competition is strongest.
San Francisco
San Francisco Neighborhood Home Prices Interactive Map
Median sale prices for houses, condos and TICs in every San Francisco MLS neighborhood, from 5,279 sales closed November 2025 to November 2026. Citywide: houses $2.025M, condos $1.288M.
Midtown Terrace
A Midtown Terrace Renovation
We helped our clients buy this home in 2010 for $585,000. Fifteen years later we sold it for them for $1.875 million.
Lone Mountain
A Three-Bedroom Condo in Lone Mountain
A three-bedroom Lone Mountain condo for our buyers.
Understanding Disclosures
AVID Agent Visual Inspection Disclosure
What the Agent Visual Inspection Disclosure is, what agents must note on it, and how buyers should use it alongside a professional inspection.
The Inner Sunset
A Two-Bedroom House in The Inner Sunset
We helped our clients buy this home in 2015. In 2023 we sold it for them at 121% of asking and found them their next home nearby.
Russian Hill
A Two-Bedroom MCM Condo in Russian Hill
A 17th-floor Russian Hill condo for our buyers.
Beyond the MLS
Some of the best homes sell before they're ever online.
What you see online is the public part. The rest comes from sources nobody can automate:
- Coming Soon and Compass Private Exclusives. See homes days or weeks before they go public, while sellers welcome an early, clean offer. Less competition, more leverage.
- Top Agent Network. We're members of the invitation-only network of the Bay Area's top producers, who share off-market homes with each other first. When one has your home, we hear about it.
- Owner and agent conversations. We often know who's thinking of selling before they've called anyone, and can make the introduction.
- Building-level homework. HOA minutes, reserve studies, special assessments, unit-by-unit resale history. Know what a building's problems cost before you're in contract.
- Twenty-plus years of SF relationships. Lenders who close on time, inspectors who catch what others miss. Deals move faster when people pick up for you.
Selling? The same network works in reverse. We can quietly test your price with ready buyers before you decide whether to go public.
Helping SF buyers and sellers since 2002 · Top Agent Network member since 2012 · Former SFAR President
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