We are so incredibly grateful to all our clients for a supportive and wonderful year. The last couple years have proven to be unpredictable at times and tough to navigate; nonetheless, we have all overcome, grown, and worked together towards a prosperous future.
We look forward now to 2022 with strength, courage, and wisdom! Know with confidence that we can endure so much and still find peace and happiness through it all.
Have a safe and Happy New Year!
-AFI REAL ESTATE Team.
What does Pacific Heights have to offer over other locations in San Francisco? Check out article discussing Pac Heights!
Article in Pacific Heights
Beautiful, well located, spacious homes aren’t always readily available in San Francisco, and right now there are two unique opportunities you won’t want to miss.
Contact Afi @ 415.312.2555 to find out about our Pacific Heights and South Beach properties before they are gone!
2780 Washington Street, San Francisco
461 2nd Street, Unit C108, San Francisco
Happy Holidays from AFI REAL ESTATE!
219 Brannan Street, Unit 12K
San Francisco, CA 94107
South Beach’s Premier High-Rise! This beautiful 2 Bedroom and 2 Bathroom property is located in Tower 1 of The Brannan. With its unique ‘K’ floorplan, the unit features a solarium overlooking the San Francisco Bay and South Beach Marina. The kitchen comes equipped with stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops. Rich hardwood floors cover the living room and hallway areas leading into the bedrooms that have panoramic Bay views.
201 Folsom Street, Unit 38E
San Francisco
Coming Soon!
First-Class Amenities. San Francisco’s newly completed LUMINA condominium complex presents a smart sophisticated design, with 656 residences, and two levels consisting solely of amenities. The building offers a private dining room, bi-level luxury club lounge with a cozy library, business room, conference rooms, a music room, a children’s playroom, pet grooming facility as well as a dog run, private indoor theater with tiered seating, an outdoor movie lawn with screening wall, fitness room with a climbing wall, heated swimming pool, a rooftop terrace with barbecues available, plus valet service.
This 1 Bd 1 Ba, plus den, is now on the market and ready for ownership! With the convenience of two entries, a nice patio, and an upstairs rooftop entertainment area with BBQ, you will feel like you have all the space you need!
50 Lansing Unit 101 – More info!
50 Lansing unit 101 is coming to the market soon. In a beautiful European-esque alley, you will enjoy the private entrance, the exclusive calm, and the personal patio.
2020 challenged all of us. Through all the volatility and ambiguity you were there for us.
The AFI Team adapted in the most difficult of circumstances to serve our neighbours’ but we could not have done it without your loyalty.
We are grateful and fortunate to be a part of the Greater South Beach and all of San Francisco.
I wish you and your loved ones the best of all life has to offer, and an amazing 2021 full of health.
219 Brannan Unit 16J coming soon! Live everyday with a beautiful view that fills you with joy and peace!
View the property here or call Yuliya Kutsopey at 415.602.7172 to set up a private showing!
A beautiful unit at the Beacon is available for sale! Stunning views will make all the difference when you are spending your days at home working or enjoying the day off!
Click here for more information or call Yuliya Kutsopey @ 415.602.7172
Yes! The real estate industry is well prepared for virtual marketing which includes 3D Videos, floor plans, photos, and online platforms. Serious buyers, especially in this market, are well accustomed to receiving information digitally, and understand that most of the data needed to evaluate a real estate purchase can be provided in that format. Nothing can fully replace the experience of physically touring a property, and that part of the process will doubtless return, but the truth is that buyers’ awareness of available properties and sorting through those to narrow the search online had already changed the way real estate is sold before restrictions on physical property showings came into being. Real estate professionals have adapted to this new environment, as have their associations (California Association of Realtors and county associations). AFI Real Estate is ready to market your property utilizing all the tools available. In fact, over several years many of our investor clients living outside the United States bought and sold properties they had never visited, based not only on images we were able to convey (much improved recently), but also on the reliable analysis we were able to provide, and the trust we earned by performance.
Now all participants in residential sales are becoming familiar and quite comfortable with closing transactions in the era of social distancing.
Our local buyers feel secure, and they are employed. Most properties are sold to local buyers. We take our time to qualify every buyer and there is no time wasted. We only show the properties to qualified buyers. These buyers start by reviewing floor plans and taking virtual tours on line before visiting the property. New virtual tools allow us to prepare videos in advance or handle showings by Zoom or Face-time, making it more personal. In addition to virtual tours, property inspections and the entire financing process, including appraisals, are now handled either remotely or with minimal personal contact. The transactional documents are completely electronic and easy to manage. Title companies handle closings remotely.
The banks are lending and unprecedented low interest rates are very appealing to serious buyers. Sellers have to price their properties correctly and agents have to market the property with focus. The question is whether the buyers down payment is available or in stocks? A good number of the Hi-Tech buyers cashed out last November. Their companies went IPO last spring and they had to wait 6 months to cash out and they did. The buyer of T1-8H is a good example of the average Tech-industry situation. She was ready to buy in December. Now is a good time for buyers to focus on their goals, and part of our job is to help them see the opportunity that your property offers.
Please let us know if we may be of service.
Afi Valizadeh & Lewis Soffer
Take a virtual tour of our newly listed rental with a video by our agent, Yuliya Kutsopey. Click here
On Saturday, February 22, AFI Real Estate will present a seminar at its office at Brannan and Delancey, at which Lew Soffer, real estate attorney and real estate broker, will address the recent amendments to the San Francisco Rent Control Ordinance. Those amendments introduce yet another layer of complexity to rent control in the City, and their full impact will have to be worked out over time. Here’s a compressed version:
The amendments made the eviction control provisions of the Ordinance, but not those provisions limiting annual rent increases, applicable to several previously exempt categories of rental properties, including those in buildings completed since July 1979. There are state laws in place by which the Legislature arguably preempted local government limitations on rent increases, but the SF Supervisors have attempted to avoid that problem by limiting the amendments to other provisions of the Ordinance. Meanwhile, tenant rights advocates are seeking to overturn the state law establishing preemption. Some analysis of the applicable law will be presented, but we hope to emphasize the practical problems the new law presents for landlords.
Prior to these amendments, rental properties in buildings constructed since 1979 were entirely exempt from the Rent Control Ordinance. Not any more. Come to the presentation, and let’s talk about how this change in the law may affect you.
219 Brannan Street unit 8H will be open on Sunday from 2-4! Stop by and see this property with breathtaking views of water, the bay bridge, and more!
Contact Afi @ 415.312.2555 for more information!
