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Bad News for Millennials! SF is Least Affordable Place to Rent in the Nation...And East Bay Ain't Much Better! 

7/31/2014

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Curbed SF is saying Millennials are paying top dollar to live in the City by the Bay, but it's not sustainable! 
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San Francisco has become a hotbed for millennials. According to new research from real estate website RealtyTrac, between 2007 and 2013 the city saw a 68 percent increase in its population of millennials...RealtyTrac then tells us what we already pretty much knew: San Francisco is the least affordable city for buying a house and the fourth-least-affordable city for renting.
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The 1956 BART Plan! What Coulda/Woulda/Shoulda Been for SF...

7/30/2014

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Peep this old plan for BART. This would have been amazing to have now for the San Francisco Bay Area! Sigh. Hindsight is 20/20...
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For comparison purposes, here is the current BART map below
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Austin Realtor Thinks His Peen Is a Selling Point for this Bathroom! 

7/26/2014

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We need to set the bar higher folks....starting by not showcasing your ding dong in your listing photos. Never mind the trash can, grandma wallpaper and dated vanity lights.  For the love of Pete,  put on some clothes! Cover up that Peter please! (NSFW pic here) 
This is not fake. This is a real condo for sale for $389,000! Property description : 
Beautiful three story condo located in central Austin, backing up to a wooded greenbelt. This condo had several windows that overlook the gorgeous greenbelt that is full of large trees. The windows have custom plantation shutters. Each story has its own deck as well as its own central air/heat. The condo is also equipped with a central vacuum system.
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HERMAN CHAN: Gaysian Ryan Seacrest! Hosting Mega Luxury Real Estate Summit in Silicon Valley for AREAA! 

7/25/2014

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Touring my Sotheby's Colleague's listing in Woodside, CA. $15,000,000

7/25/2014

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$15,000,000
6 bedrooms
5.5 bathrooms
8,639 sq ft
7 acre estate


Let me know if you need more information! It is a work of art! 
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City of Alameda Squashed This Guy's Plans to Build His Dream Home...So He Retaliated & Built a Spite House! 

7/21/2014

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Talk about sore loser! The City of Alameda re-appropriated his inherited land, so he built this slim fugly eye-sore as revenge to block neighbor's view and light, a symbolic architectural "shove it"! LOL! The house is just 54 feet long but only 10 feet wide. Would you do this your neighbors?  CityLab has all the sordid deets:

About a century ago, a Bay Area man named Charles Froling was just learning that he wouldn't be able to build his dream house. An inheritance had gifted him a sizable chunk of land, but municipal elders in the City of Alameda had decided to appropriate most of it to extend a street. 
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Herman Chan Media Correspondent Brings You Behind The Scenes for Mega Luxury Real Estate Summit Silicon Valley! 

7/21/2014

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Join me at the Mega Luxury Real Estate Summit! As the Media Correspondent, I'll bring you exclusive access to this unprecedented event, put on by AREAA Silicon Valley & Lifestyle Resources Magazine.  I've got the inside scoop on these top producers' secrets. Tweet me (twitter.com/hermanity) any questions you are dying to ask these real estate superstars!   
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Yikes! SF Median Home Prices Sails Past $1M - New Record! 

7/21/2014

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Modern Luxury Reports:
Median home prices in San Francisco broke a new record, for the first time ever topping $1 million. That's the first time that the nominal median—the figure at which half of all sales are above and half below—broke the seven figure barrier in the Bay Area. The year-over-year change in nominal median sales prices for the city was 13.3%.
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Who's The Boss: Angela & Tony Need to Sell Their House To Buy Their Dream Home...Can They Pull It Off?! 

7/21/2014

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This episode has beaucoup real estate scenarios! Multiple offers, seller negotiation, contingent sale, and colorful realtors, flaky buyers and more! 
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Why did an Aussie Man Mortgage His House?! To Pay For $100,000 Penis Enlargement Surgery

7/17/2014

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Here's the long and the short of it. A man from Down Under felt so bad about his  micro-penis (yes, it's true) that he mortgaged his home in order to finance a few more inches (hopefully!). Queerty has the  dirty deets: 
...in 2012, he spent $45,000 to try and increase the length and girth of his dong. To pay for the surgery, he had to mortgage his house. “Pre-surgery, I was 2-3cm flaccid,” Mike said, “and I’m now 4cm. My erection is probably around 7cm.”

(That’s approximately $22,500 a centimeter.)

Unhappy with the results, Mike says he’s now planning a second surgery, which is estimated to cost around $18,000. Chances are he will also need a third, more serious surgery, which will cost around $50,000. If he undergoes both surgeries, he will have spent more than $100,000 on trying to increase the size of his peepee.

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Too Many Ding Dongs Trying to Sell Real Estate & Other Observations from Herman for 7 Sentence Interview! 

7/17/2014

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I sat down for a quickie interview with Seven Sentences: Daily Inspiration for Creative People. I tell them what millenials want in a realtor and why there are too many ding dongs out there trying to sell real estate!  (#truth!)
  

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OUT Magazine's CoverBoy Herman Chan Discusses Why He Didn't Come Out of the Closet,  Why Asian Guys are Sexy & His New Book!

7/13/2014

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OUT Magazine digs into my past, present & future.  One of the most intimate interviews I've ever done, I tell OUT Magazine why I never came out of the closet ("I came out of the womb"),  how my immigrant family reacted to me being gay and why Asian guys are super sek-siii  (yet still marginalized?!) Oh, I toss in some of my property tips too! 
Herman Chan has too many TV, magazine and internet credits to list.  Born 35 years ago in San Francisco’s Bay Area, this handsome gay guy is a no nonsense and very funny property guru whose pearls of wisdom help buyers and sellers alike. 
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OUT Magazien Cover Boy Herman Chan
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I'm sandwiched between George Clooney, Anderson Cooper and a Gaysian angel!
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How to Handle Nude Buyers!  Buying Naked on TLC

7/13/2014

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Meg Ryan's SF Queen Anne Victorian $9M Mansion For Sale...Now Pending!  

7/4/2014

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For you youngsters who ain't go no clue who Meg Ryan is, she was the original  RomCom queen  of the late 1980's. America's sweetheart who infamously faked it on-screeen. (See below) Don't act like you've never done that before in a restaurant.  ANYHOO, she just sold her San Francisco residence she shared with her boo Dennis Quaid. Congrats! (moaning, groaning and writhing around!) 
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3 of the Top 10 Most Expensive ZIP Codes Are in SF Bay Area, Median Home Price Over $3 Million

7/3/2014

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Citylab crunches Zillow data & finds:
Ten percent of ZIP codes in the San Jose metro have median home values of more than $2 million....In the Bay Area... housing has become so expensive that much of the middle class has been effectively priced out of home-ownership. Forty-four ZIP codes have median home values above $1 million, just nine have median home values below $300,000, and not a single ZIP code has a median home value below $200,000. 
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SF Bay Area Rents Rocket WAY Past Incomes!  

7/2/2014

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Wall Street Journal says:
Rent growth exceeded 6% over the past year in San Francisco, San Jose and Seattle....But household incomes have stagnated, resulting in a financial squeeze for a growing number of renters. 
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