DENVER (AP) — San Francisco’s playoff chances were damaged Saturday when the Colorado Rockies swept the Giants 9-5 and 5-2 in a day-night doubleheader, taking advantage of seven walks in the opener and two errors and a pair of wild pitches in the nightcap.

Ezequiel Tovar finished with five hits and five RBIs on the day, including a career-high four RBIs in the opener for the Rockies.

The Giants (75-74) fell 2 1/2 games behind Cincinnati Arizona, who are tied for the last NL wild card, also trailing Miami. San Francisco, which wasted a 3-0 lead in the opener, had won 16 of 17 against Colorado dating to Aug. 21 last year but dropped the first three of a four-game series. The Giants have lost nine straight road games for the first time since 1996.

“Timing is not good to not be playing good baseball,” San Francisco manager Gabe Kapler said. “We’re tough bunch and the thing that we need to consider right now is how many times are we able to get back off the mat after getting knocked down.”

Victor Vodnik (1-0) won in his first big league decision in the second game, allowing one run and two hits over two innings in of relief of Kyle Freeland, who left after three innings due to a mild right oblique strain.

“An injury like this is very touchy,” Freeland said. “If I would have kept pitching more than likely it would have gotten worse.”

Colorado has won five straight for the first time since July 12-16, 2022, and captured its first series from an NL West opponent this season. The Rockies swept a doubleheader for the first time since Aug. 17, 2014, against Cincinnati.

Thairo Estrada tied a career high with four hits in the first game and added a single and a run in the nightcap.

San Francisco loaded the bases in the ninth inning of the second game before pinch-hitter Blake Sabol popped out off Tyler Kinley, who got his fourth save in six chances.

“We’ve been streaky all year, played really good baseball at times, really bad baseball at times but we’re still in the hunt, still have a chance to make the playoffs and that’s what we’ve got to focus on,” catcher Patrick Bailey said.

Giants starter Scott Alexander (7-3) allowed a pair of unearned runs in two-thirds of an inning, After a two-out fielding error by shortstop Paul DeJong on Tovar’s grounder, Kris Bryant hit an RBI double and scored on Elehuris Montero’s single.

Mike Yastrzemski’s RBI single cut the deficit to 2-1 in the second, but Charlie Blackmon tripled in the third and scored on single by Tovar, who advanced on a Jakob Junis wild pitch and took third on catcher Patrick Bailey’s throwing error, then scored on another wild pitch.

Michael Conforto hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth, and Bryant singled in a run in the seventh.

In the opener Keaton Winn, Ryan Walker (4-3) and Ross Stripling combined for the seven walks, and Rockies pitchers also walked seven. LaMonte Wade Jr. homered for San Francisco.

“You can’t walk anybody in this ballpark,” Kapler said. “It’s almost always going to come back to bite you.”

Tovar had three hits for the Rockies, starting the comeback from a 3-0 deficit with a bases-loaded triple in the third.

Bryant hit an RBI single in the fifth for a 4-3 lead, Walker forced in a run with a walk to Hunter Goodman, his third of the inning. and Stripling walked Castro for a 6-3 advantage. Tovar added an RBI single in the seventh that included Austin Wynns’ two-run single.

Stripling made his first appearance for the Giants since missing 25 games with a mid-back strain. He walked his first batter, ending a streak of 169 batters without a walk.

“A little bit of rust and cobwebs definitely needed to be shaken off,” Stripling said.

Karl Kauffman (2-4) allowed an unearned run and two hits in four innings and Gavin Hollowell got an eight-out save, his first save for Colorado.

San Francisco took a 2-0 lead on Sabol’s two-run double in the second inning and added another run in the third when Estrada singled, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on two passed balls by Austin Wynns.

WALK, MAN

Wade didn’t have a hit in first five plate appearances of the series but his on-base percentage is rising. Wade walked three times in Friday’s loss and drew another in his first at-bat Saturday. Wade leads the Giants with 72 walks this season.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Rockies: RHP Peter Lambert (right biceps tendinitis) was placed on the 15-day injured list, effectively ending his season. Kauffmann was recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque to take Lambert’s roster spot. Kauffmann was optioned to Albuquerque after the first game.

UP NEXT

LHP Sean Manaea (5-6, 4.80) starts Sunday for the Giants and RHP Chris Flexen (1-7, 7.22) for the Rockies.

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San Rafael police said this week they have apologized to residents and first responders in San Francisco after an officer drove a homeless man accused of causing a disturbance to a residential neighborhood and left him there.

The incident unfolded last month, when San Rafael police were called to Northgate mall around 4:43 pm on July 30 after a caller reported a man was threatening security guards at the mall, San Rafael police Lt. Scott Eberle said.

The officers “determined that no crime had taken place,” and the man did not meet the threshold to be held for psychiatric evaluation, Eberle said.

The man whose identity has not been released was known to the police, but the department could not confirm whether he lived there or had ties to San Francisco. He was not a resident of San Rafael’s city-run homeless camp, police said.

Eberle said to an officer suggested San Francisco as a destination, “and the subject said he wanted to go.”

Once in the city, the man allegedly tried to start a fire and began undressing in a driveway in the residential neighborhood where he was dropped off, said Jen Kwart, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office.

He was transported to an area hospital “for a medical complaint,” according to the San Francisco Fire Department.

“It is disturbing to think another jurisdiction would drop off someone experiencing homelessness or mental health challenges in the middle of a residential neighborhood with no services or resources around,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said in a statement. “We will hold any jurisdiction accountable that is proven to engage in this behavior.”

A bystander noticed the San Rafael police vehicle and shot a video of police dropping the man off near 14th Avenue and Lake Street. Eberle said the person who took the video shared it with San Rafael police, which immediately began an internal investigation.

Eberle said it was not the department’s practice to drive people to other jurisdictions and leave them there without notifying local authorities.

“This does not reflect any practices of the San Rafael Police Department,” Eberle said. “We do not condone this officer’s actions.

“We devote so much time and resources and energy to helping combat the homelessness crisis that our city is experiencing, and we have hired and promoted people within the department to specialize in addressing the homelessness crisis,” Eberle said.

The department has a mental health liaison, Lynn Murphy, who will at times connect homeless people with resources outside the city, “but she does so in a professional manner, and just doesn’t transport somebody without gaining approval from the receiving resource or service provider,” Eberle said.

The officer and a supervisor who was involved in the incident remain on active duty as an internal investigation continues, Eberle said. He declined to identify the officer or the supervisor.

Chiu’s office only became aware of the full scope of the incident approximately a week ago.

San Rafael police said the department has apologized to the city and county of San Francisco, the neighborhood where the homeless man was dropped off and the firefighters and police who responded after neighbors complained about the man’s behavior there.

“In my 22 years of being here, I have heard of this happening in the past, but this is not normal or routine,” Eberle said.

“We do acknowledge that we made a mistake,” Eberle said. “We’re extremely apologetic to everyone who was impacted.”

Such incidents have occurred before. In 2013, San Francisco south of the state of Nevada, alleging it had improperly bused dozens of psychiatric patients from the Rawson-Neal Hospital in Las Vegas into San Francisco without food, water or medication and dropped them in the city to fend for themselves.

That lawsuit was settled when Nevada agreed to only bring patients to California if they were going to a specific home address, medical facility or program with someone waiting for or accompanying them. Nevada also paid $400,000 to San Francisco.

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Laguna Honda Hospital is a facility with a rich history of scandal and mismanagement. For it to now be facing an existential crisis over a series of comparatively minor violations feels a bit like Al Capone going to prison over tax evasion.

But Capone did indeed go to the slammer — you can buy the commemorative t-shirt at Pier 39. And, as mind-boggling as it may be, the 700-odd vulnerable patients here may be out on their ears before year’s end if the hospital fails to meet the latest terms imposed by the federal government. If Laguna Honda comes up short in a top-to-bottom recertification process, it could lose Medicare and Medi-Cal funding in four to six months’ time.

This would blow a roughly $20 million a month hole in the city’s budget and open up the real possibility of patients being transferred hundreds if not thousands of miles away — or, tragically, to the curb and immediate homelessness. A high percentage of Laguna Honda’s patients exhibit behaviors that would’ve led to them being screened out of almost any other nursing facility, and it’s unrealistic to expect beds to be found for them.

“They would probably have to soak up a bed at General Hospital until they ended up in jail, or a bed comes up in a locked facility for people who are criminally insane,” sums up Dr. Teresa Palmer, a geriatrician who worked at Laguna Honda from 1989 to 2004.

This assessment is as harsh as it sounds. The fate of both this city and its most vulnerable populations are not in a solid place right now.

Laguna Honda, seen in 1926. Photo courtesy of OpenSFHistory.org

You may have missed the existential crisis unfolding at this 156-year-old institution. It’s easy to. Laguna Honda shelters the people society is most eager to overlook: The frail elderly and — increasingly — mentally ill and/or drug-addicted younger patients. This is a combustible and counterintuitive mix, and plays no small role in the fix Laguna Honda now finds itself in.

“There are a huge number of men here between ages 50 and 70,” says Palmer. At most nursing homes, she continues, you’d be more likely to find “a majority of ladies in their 80s.”

Between 1999 and 2021, the percentage of women at Laguna Honda dropped from 56 percent to 37 percent.

The problems at Laguna Honda, like Hemingway’s description of bankruptcy, have come gradually then suddenly. As would bankruptcy, so to speak, if federal funding is yanked.

Laguna Honda was founded in 1866 as an almshouse for geriatric Gold Rush forty-niners. We could start this story then. Or we could start it in 1999, when voters approved a $299 million bond to “save” the hospital. Or in 2006, when a licensing survey noted that the younger, more ambulatory patients flowing into Laguna Honda were toting drugs, alcohol, loaded firearms, and abusing the elders — staff even futilely erected signs reading “no hitting.”

Or we could start in 2019, when Laguna Honda staff took demeaning, nude photos of incapacitated patients and doped them up with non-prescribed medication (the first of several lawsuits settled last year for $800,000).

Nursing Director: “Our team have exhausted most options in helping eliminate or minimize the contraband and illicit substances into the unit.” … (Resident 2) voluntarily handed the burnt aluminum foil, plastic pen body case burned on one end and a cigarette lighter that he’s holding. … Resident even stated “they know I’m doing this.”

California Department of Public Health Survey of Laguna Honda Hospital, March 28, 2022

But, instead, we’ll start in July 2021, when two of the younger, more ambulatory patients here purportedly wandered off campus, wandered back on with methamphetamine and fentanyl, and suffered non-fatal overdoses.

The hospital reported the overdoses to regulators — to not do so would be unthinkable following the 2019 scandals that led to $780,000 in fines and a slew of lawsuits. And this triggered a concatenation of regulatory procedures that led to where we are today and put the hospital at the brink.

Laguna Honda, on multiple subsequent occasions, did not meet inspectors’ expectations on its “termination revisit survey.” In April, inspectors found 27 different violations. Some of these were not insignificant — incomplete patient assessments or staff wearing improper or inadequate PPE around patients. Other assessments seemed to be more of the ticky-tack variety: medicated shampoo without a prescription, medicated creams and lotions in patient rooms, “three open plastic bags were hanging (unattended) in a dirty hamper.”

These are the infractions that triggered the feds to last month broach the possibility of yanking funding. Laguna Honda announced this month that it now must go through the rigmarole of working to demonstrate that it could relocate all of its residents as a condition to continue receiving government funding. It will receive that funding while it works to recertify and avoid relocating anyone. It’s a Kafkaesque turn of events. Laguna Honda has so much to answer for going back through the years — but it’s the medicated shampoo et al. that was noted on this most recent report.

Adding to the surreal nature of these proceedings, the federal agency currently calling the shots, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is responsible for overseeing all the truly horrific, for-profit, deathtrap nursing homes you saw on 60 minutes. There is no universe in which Laguna Honda compares to these charnel houses, and the overseers’ monomaniacal focus on this public hospital is hard to explain. As is any “solution” that might result in the dispersal of its residents.

Laguna Honda Hospital. Photo by Christopher Michel.

“I don’t know why they are being so harsh,” says Dr. Derek Kerr, a 21-year physician at Laguna Honda who has since turned into a whistleblower and critic of the facility. “Laguna Honda is always judged harshly. If you have one violation in a 700-bed unit that is as bad as one violation in a 15-bed nursing home. They don’t take into account the denominator.”

And while 27 violations sounds like a lot, says Charlene Harrington, a professor emeritus at UC San Francisco, Laguna Honda is seven times the size of an average nursing home facility. And, she continues, the average number of violations recorded on such an inspection is eight — meaning Laguna Honda had about half what you’d expect, per capita.

“California has had extremely poor enforcement of nursing homes, and has some of the worst nursing homes in the country. And that has gone on for years,” says Harrington. “Laguna Honda had some deficiencies, and I am not excusing the deficiencies. But the [overseers’] behavior in this case is inexplicable. They have let other facilities go for years … awful, for-profit facilities where really terrible things are going on.”

Multiple emails to CMS officials have not yet been returned.

Harrington has studied nursing homes and regulation for 40 years. And she is at a loss to explain what is going on here: “I can’t think of any case like this before.”

Laguna Honda in 1875. Photo courtesy of OpenSFHistory.org

There is nothing like a threat from outside to cement allegiances inside. So, at noon on Wednesday, Mayor London Breed and the SEIU 1021 — who maintain a Ralph Wolf-and-Sam Sheepdog relationship — will both appear at a rally to save this hospital.

Government officials across San Francisco described CMS as rigid and intractable. Former California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is now the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, which runs CMS. But, city officials say, he may be trying extra hard not to be seen as playing favorites.

CMS, city officials say, intransigently insists that its procedures are proscribed and must be done by the book, come what may. And you know the mayor’s office has been bending their ears, as has the office of Rep. Nancy Pelosi — and, if need be, every California politician there is will join the queue.

What a predicament: At last San Francisco has run into a situation in which it can’t just have his political mommy and daddy make some calls and get it out of his longstanding ineptitude. The process, at least thus far, seems to be politically impenetrable. How unfortunate, then, that this appears to be a process devoid of common sense or empathy in which, ostensibly for the patients’ own safety, hundreds of them may be jettisoned to parts unknown or pushed to the street.

That’s just plain stupid.

Maybe that will come up at the rally tomorrow. It’s doubtful, however, the city officials will examine their own role in this fine mess. But we can. So let’s go back to that bond measure in 1999.

“Laguna Honda had some deficiencies, and I am not excusing the deficiencies. But the [overseers’] behavior in this case is inexplicable. They have let other facilities go for years … awful, for-profit facilities where really terrible things are going on.”

Charlene Harrington, UCSF professor emeritus

Voters, you may recall, agreed to go into $299 million in bonded debt to build a new, 1,200-bed facility. They were promised that this would house the city’s frail elders.

But that didn’t happen. The price tag ballooned by hundreds of millions of dollars and the capacity of the hospital was reduced by hundreds of beds. And, top it off, the city began transferring younger, mentally ill and/or substance addicted patients into the hospital.

So yes, we paid more, got less, and the hospital is not exclusively serving the elderly population that voters were enticed to pony up and help.

As noted earlier, this situation is longstanding. By 2004, Palmer left Laguna Honda, in large part because she felt the influx of “out-of-control” mentally ill and/or substance abuse addicts was unsafe. “They are deforming the hospital to accommodate an antisocial minority,” says Kerr, who was forced out in 2010.

There is no scenario in which crippling and defunding Laguna Honda and ejecting its patients is in anybody’s best interests — and, Palmer still describes it as “a better nursing home than most” and a place where she would’ve put her own mother.

The city must do all it can to fend off this doomsday scenario, and a consulting firm with an expertise in re-certification has already been hired.

But the city must also address the untenable situation of commingling the frail elderly and ambulatory mentally ill and/or addicts. In 1999, you’ll recall, 56 percent of Laguna Honda’s residents were female — and the average age was 76. By 2021, only 37 percent of the residents were women. And while patients’ average age wasn’t disclosed in ’21, it had dropped to 64 by 2013.

A state Department of Public Health survey from March, 2022 obtained by Kerr and shared with Mission Local notes staff observing residents overtly smoking drugs off aluminum foil and seeing little they could do to prevent this.

“Our team have exhausted most options in helping eliminate or minimize the contraband and illicit substances,” a nursing director is quoted as saying. The patient in question surrendered his burnt aluminum foil, plastic pen and lighter. “They know I’m doing this,” he said.

This city has chosen to serve populations nobody else would. But it has chosen to do so in a manner that has proven to be unworkable and led to the current crisis.

San Francisco owes it to itself and Laguna Honda’s residents to solve this crisis. But also to ponder its own role in it. And make things right. Gradually then suddenly.

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SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — Santa Clara County health officials announced Tuesday that all their COVID benchmarks have been reached, allowing the county to lift its indoor COVID masking mandate on March 2.

“What we can expect with this pandemic is we will have peaks and valleys,” County public health director Dr. Sara Cody told reporters. “So right now, we are coming into a lovely valley. We can all really enjoy that.”

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Cody told reporters that the community spread of the virus has fallen significantly during the current lull to a level now safe enough for the county to finally join other Bay Area communities in lifting the mandate.

“We have met the metrics,” she said. “It’s a balance. At some point, we do need to transition from a requirement to a recommendation and in our county. We set metrics where we thought that was safe enough. It’s not completely safe, we still have community transmission of COVID, but we’ve reached a level where it feels safe enough to make the transition.”

She added that individual businesses can still require patrons to wear masks.

“Our trends are very strongly in a downward direction,” she told reporters. “The levels of community transmission have declined significantly over the last week and very significantly over the last two weeks. And the rate of decline continues to be fairly steep…All of our data is consistent, the level of community transmission in Santa Clara County is continuing to decrease.

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When it applies to schools, Cody said the county discontinued local rules for schools and childcare settings in mid-2020 and has followed state guidance and rules since that time. County schools will now follow the state’s lead in lifting school mask requirements on March 11.

While the mandate will go away, Cody said she would encourage residents to continue to wear masks in crowded, public settings.

“While indoor masking in public spaces will no longer be required, it still makes sense to do,” she said. “Wearing a mask is part of working together to protect others, especially the most vulnerable among us.”

The three benchmarks Cody put in place were — a high vaccination rate, a decline in the hospitalization rate and dip below an average of 550 new cases a day for week.

On Tuesday, the 7-day average had fallen to 351 new cases and 244 county residents were hospitalized with COVID, less than half of the 533 residents that were hospitalized at the peak of the county’s winter surge in cases due to the omicron variant.

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In addition, 84.8 percent of county residents are vaccinated.

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Coronavirus pandemic driving home buyers out of the Bay Area

Redfin reports this week that a quarter (24.5%) of home sellers in the San Francisco area cut their list prices in the four weeks leading up to August 2020, the highest percentage since at least 2015.

That is more than double the year-over-year rate and marks the largest annual increase in the share of active listings with price drops among the 50 most populous US metropolitan areas.

The rate of price drop in San Francisco was steady at over 24% in late summer and was 24.1% in the final period of the Redfin data – the four weeks ending August 23, 2020.

San Francisco was one of only 11 of the 50 largest metropolitan areas where the proportion of listings that drove down prices rose, up from 11.4% last year to 24.1%. Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York were among the ten other places where price drops rose year over year in the four weeks ended August 23.

“San Francisco buyers want fire sale deals, and they won’t settle until they find them. You’re in no rush because there’s so much uncertainty right now – if the price isn’t right, they can just rent a Lake Tahoe home for a year until their employer gives concrete advice whether or when they have to go back to the office, “said local Redfin agent Carlos Barrientos. “I see a lot of buyers making lowball offers that are initially turned down but are called back a few weeks later by the sellers saying they are ready to bring the price down.”

High-rise condos and smaller, dated homes – where a home office can be inconvenient or difficult to set up – are the types of property that prices are most likely to fall, Barrientos added.

San Francisco’s housing market has weakened during the coronavirus pandemic as its residents fled the dense, expensive city to find more space to make remote working and homeschooling more viable. In the second quarter, 22.7% of Redfin.com users searching from the San Francisco area wanted to move – compared to 21% last year and the second-highest proportion of all locations analyzed by Redfin (after New York only).

As a result of that shift, the number of homes in the San Francisco market increased 75% year over year in the four weeks ended August 23, forcing sellers to drop prices and giving buyers the upper hand. The median sales price for properties sold during the reporting period rose 6.6% year over year to $ 1.5 million, but was well below the 11.4% nationwide increase. It’s worth noting that the proportion of homes with price drops is a leading indicator, so the trend would likely not carry over to the median selling price until those homes find buyers and close their sales over the next several months.

“It might not happen right away, but we’ll likely see house prices in San Francisco fall at some point,” said Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather. “It’s clear that many homeowners feel that San Francisco is past its peak and that it’s better to sell sooner than later. Of course, the future of home prices largely depends on whether people return to the office or for that.” Companies work remotely. ” long term. “

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San Francisco is the weakest spot in the Bay Area’s most booming real estate market, and the condominium segment is the weakest of them all.

Inventories have grown faster than sales, and price cuts – mostly in the condominium segment – “have hit very high numbers,” said Patrick Carlisle, chief market analyst for real estate agency Compass. Why hasn’t the average price of a condo in San Francisco dropped more?

The average price for a condo in San Francisco fell to $ 1.25 million in the third quarter, a decrease of only 2% from the third quarter of 2019, according to Carlisle. The average price for a single family home rose 5.2% to $ 1.66 million.

Main reason condominiums stopped falling: sales of two-bedroom units rose significantly year over year from 330 to 330, while one-bedroom condominium sales fell slightly from 183 to 186.

“The surge in two-bedroom sales has increased the overall average sales price for condominiums,” said Carlisle. If you look at one and two bedroom units separately, their average prices fell 6.6% and 6.5%, respectively, “which sounds much truer”.

This shows why it can be misleading to just look at average prices, where half the houses sell for more and half for less.

Carlisle found “a similar dynamic in terms of median home sales prices in the Bay Area for the third quarter”. The average size of homes sold in the Bay Area in the third quarter rose virtually everywhere, in the 5% to 10% range in general. Larger homes sell for more money, which increases the median selling price. “It doesn’t reflect market values ​​or what an individual home could sell.

Although market values ​​have risen in most areas, “a significant portion of the median price increases were simply due to sales of larger homes,” said Carlisle. “Wealthy buyers have played a bigger role in the market since the pandemic.” Its data is based on sales reported to a multiple listing service.

Even in a soft market, buyers face stiff competition in some segments. One way to measure “sharpness” is to look at the percentage of houses that contract. This means that the seller has accepted an offer. With this move, the hottest condominium markets in San Francisco in the third quarter were Noe / Eureka / Cole Valleys (47% adoption rate), followed by Richmond District / Lake Street (45%).

The coolest were South Beach / South of Market / Mission Bay (18%) and Russian / Nob / Telegraph Hills and Van Ness / Civic Center / Downtown (23% each).

For single-family homes, Sunset / Parkside / Golden Gate Heights was the hottest neighborhood in San Francisco, where 68% of homes were contracted in the third quarter. The coolest was Pacific Heights / Cow Hollow / Marina (28%).

Another measure of timeliness is the average amount by which the selling price exceeds the original list price, also known as overbidding. Again, the Sunset / Parkside neighborhood was the leader in single-family homes in San Francisco. Buyers paid an average of 9% more than list price in the third quarter. The coolest was Pacific Heights / Presidio Heights / Cow Hollow / Marina, where the average shopper paid 4.6% less than asked.

Sunset / Parkside “is extremely hot,” said Agent Jason Chan of Barbco Real Estate. “I received an average of 10 or 20 offers in my offers (there). Usually they go 40% beyond asking. “He admitted that realtors in town rate houses way below market value because if they value them at market value or slightly above, they” sit in the market for weeks or months. “

He listed a small house in 2101 Wawona, Parkside, for just under $ 1.1 million. It received 22 offers and was sold for $ 1.5 million.

Compass agent Yesenia Rogers said Sunset / Parkside is a great alternative to the suburbs for people who mostly live in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic and want a yard and space for an office or classroom. “Here you can get a single-family home in the $ 1.5 million range that has space, three bedrooms, a back yard in a nice, safe community,” she said.

Rogers works with three buyers who are “actively writing offers” in this area. All of them rent out condominiums and at some point want single-family homes for children. “These are people who believe in San Francisco, believe that the city will return and maybe not like it used to, but San Francisco remains a good investment.” Some want to stay close to relatives in the city.

Last week, their buyers bid on one home with 12 offers and another with 20 offers. “San Francisco has a lot of inventory in the market,” and the sales “are pretty hot and cold,” said Rogers. “I don’t think (sunset) is an area where you get hit all the time. But it’s competitive compared to other parts of the city, she said: three-bedroom houses on one level will see a lot of offers.

While the average single-family home sold 2.4% more than the asking price in the third quarter, the average San Francisco condo sold 2.6% less. The best neighborhood to live in was the Richmond borough, where the average unit sold straight for price. The weakest was Russian / Nob / Telegraph Hills / Financial District, where the average unit sold for 7% less than asked.

Surprisingly, some parts of the Bay Area that were hardest hit by forest fires and power outages were among the “hottest” in the third quarter.

Carlisle compared the percentage of homes (single-family homes and condos combined) signed in the third quarter of 2020 to the same quarter last year for the Bay Area and some surrounding counties.

In the third quarter of this year, Solano, Contra Costa, and Alameda were the districts with the largest proportion of homes under contract.

But the boroughs that saw the biggest percentage change in that number year over year were Monterey, Santa Cruz, Napa, and Sonoma. This is another way of measuring sharpness.

“San Francisco is the only county that has seen a decline,” said Carlisle. The proportion of homes accepting an offer fell from 41% last year to 36% this year.

Kathleen Pender is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Email: kpender@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @kathpender

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