As you have probably noticed, I have not been active on this blog in quite some time, but it's not because I haven't been hard at work. For the past 4 months, I have been busy designing and running the remodel of a condo in San Francisco, as well as working on a company I founded a few years ago.

In 2005, I began my own clothing line, Nantucket Brand. Originally, I worked on the company along with my job as a realtor in whatever spare time I had. However, things have progressed very well with the company and I am now working full-time on Nantucket Brand. My parents and brother Stephen have become partial owners and my brother Dustin is a manager at our retail store on Main Street on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.

I have moved back to Nantucket for the summer months. It's exciting for me to get to spend my summer in the place I grew up, work with my family, and see how far Nantucket Brand has come since I started it.

Although I will be heading back to San Francisco after the summer, I have not yet decided if I'll go back to work as a realtor. There's still a long way to go and much work to be done with Nantucket Brand before meeting the goals of the company. I'll post here if I do go back to work in the real estate industry. For now, I'd appreciate it if you'd visit the Nantucket Brand website. There's news about the company, a YouTube clip of me being interviewed (along with a fashion show), pictures of the retail store, and of course, an online store. I encourage you to spread the word and send me any feedback you may have. And, as a bonus to those who read my real estate blog, please use the coupon "mauryproperties" to receive 20% off your purchase.

I am ecstatic to see the number of comments I have received so far. i'd like to challenge commentors to donate just $1 a piece to Megan's goal on their own. Of course, please continue to comment and make me donate another dollar per comment.  

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I have started a campaign to raise money for Parkinson's Research on my website. I have decided to donate a dollar for every comment or trackback I receive up until April 16th. The full post can be read here.

The other day, I got an email from a friend who will be running the Boston Marathon this April. She works for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and will be running the marathon in honor of her grandfather. She is well on her way to her goal of raising $10,000 for the foundation (and it actually appears that she has surpassed it due to a matching donation). However, I’d still like to help her reach her goall.

For my contribution, I will be donating $1 for every comment or trackback left on this post - or any other post on my blog up until April 16th. I also encourage others to make their own contribution, which can be done online at this website - just $1 is a big help. 

Please feel free to link to this post and make me open my wallet and again, I encourage you make your own donation as well. It can be very quickly using a credit card or PayPal.

For SEO reasons, the full post is not posed here. It can be read at my site.

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I went through the current active listings in the MLS defined area of South Beach in San Francisco and picked out a couple. They have each been on the market for at least a few months. One is a studio - priced at just $379,000 (by far the lowest in South Beach) and the other it is a 2 bed/1.5 bath condo in a small industrial style 3 unit building. There's more info about the listings and the neighborhood at my main site.

The Infinity has added all 42 unique floor plans to their site. The plans are for their Tower and Treetop buildings. There will be a total of 4 bulildings - 2 towers, 2 mid-rises - when the project is complete. One high-rise is under construction right now and has about 35 floors of the 42 up so far. I've got some pictures on my site.

You can read the rest of the entry or more about the Infinty at my site.

Rincon Hill is another one of San Francisco’s newer residential neighborhoods, although it has been around in some form for a long time. Early on, the area was home to many large mansions. After the 1906 earthquake, many of the mansions were destroyed and the area was replaced with many industrial buildings. Recently many new condo buildings have been built and are still being developed.

Continue reading at Maury Properties...

For an end-of-the-year post, I took a look at condo and TIC sales around San Francisco. In total, there were 3083 sold MLS listings in the year with 634 of those being TICs.

About 40% of the listings were only on the market for less than 30 days. Another 30% were on for 30-60 days. The price per square foot for TIC units came in at just over $835 while the price per square foot actually came in lower at $811. For some more stats and charts, continue reading at Maury Properties.

Seth Godin has written a post about compact fluorescent lightbulbs. He has urged other bloggers to write about them in the hopes of gaining wider usage of the bulbs. I wrote a post on my site about how the money-saving aspect needs to be stressed.

 

Seth has mentioned that he will post a link to your site if you trackback to his post. I'll also be glad to do the same.

South Beach is one of the newer neighborhoods in San Francisco. Located near the new ballpark in San Francisco, it consists of many high-end condo towers, converted-warehouse condo buildings, and some apartment buildings.

The area boasts a number of fine restaurants including the new Sutra, 21st Amendment, Momo's, Paragon, Town's End and many more. The area is convenient for grocery shopping, getting to the Financial District, and getting on 280-S or the Bay Bridge.

Read more about the South Beach neighborhood of San Francisco at Maury Properties.

For SEO reasons, I don't post my full posts here. This post can be read on my site.

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I’ve been watching it go around and I knew it would come to me sooner or later. I have been tagged in this meme-game making its way around the blog-world by Mike Simonsen at Altos Research. In case you don’t know, the idea is that you reveal 5 things about yourself that most of your readers don’t know. You then “tag” 5 more people to keep it going. I’m not sure how it got started, but it’s all over the web now.

Anyway, you can read my 5 things and see who I tagged on my site.

For SEO reasons, I don't post the full entry here. It can be seen on my site. 

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The 170 Off Third condo project should be opening their sales center early next year, according to an email I received the other day. The opening is somewhat behind schedule, as it was originally scheduled to open this past summer....