Happy Thanksgiving

Best wishes to everyone and wishing you all a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Here in San Francisco we have so much to be thankful for.

• A thriving real estate econonomy due to innovation, start ups and technology like Facebook, Google and Apple and many more.  
• Increasing home values, ever increasing demand for homes, low interest rates, and low inventory.
• Great weather and climate.
• Lots of great restaurants and shops, great neighborhoods and melting pot of demographics and creativity.
• Of course locals know that San Francisco is a lovely little 7x7-mile square of land. But what even many lifelong San Franciscans don't know (and trust us, San Franciscans know a lot) is that this relatively small city is home to 89 distinct neighborhoods.
• How do we fit nearly 100 individual enclaves -- each with its own memorable charms and quirks, people and places -- into 49 square miles?
• San Francisco's residential districts looks like a pastel patchwork, covered in a pattern of monikers both descriptive and occasionally, confounding: Cole Valley. Little Hollywood. Cow Hollow. The Mission. Yerba Buena. SOMA. NoPa.
• The thing most suspect is that San Francisco needs so many neighborhoods, large and small, perched on hillsides or settled in shady valleys, to accommodate our eclectic, ever-changing and always fascinating populace. There are just over 800,000 of us here now, somehow cozily inhabiting this little peninsula.
• Each settlement, from Sea Cliff to Bayview, offers home seekers its own unique climate (do you seek out sun or relish the fog?), atmosphere (do you yearn to live in a fast-paced urban environment or cherish the solace of suburbs with easy access to the city?) and property types (are you more suited to a modern, industrial loft or a grand old Victorian, fireplace and all?).

I know San Francisco the way the locals do -- because, after all, I have been a local for 25 plus years and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world!