What earns this one a place on the page is not the article. It is the credit line.
When a national publication needed numbers on how fast Bernal Heights homes were selling, it took them from BernalHeights.com, a site Michael Minson and I built because the neighborhood deserved a proper resource of its own rather than a page buried inside a citywide brokerage website. Becoming the source a reporter reaches for takes longer than getting quoted, and I would argue it counts for more.
That work has now run for well over a decade. As of August 2026 I have been credited on 197 Bernal Heights sales, whether as the listing agent, as a co-listing agent alongside Michael, on the buyer side, or working with the buyer agents on my team. Michael has since moved abroad and stepped back from day-to-day real estate, but the partnership shaped how I came to understand this neighborhood.
What strikes me rereading the 2018 piece is how much of it still holds. The village feel, the small lots, the staircases through people's back gardens, the sense that people buy here on purpose rather than by default. Prices have moved considerably since that median two-bedroom figure, but the reasons people want to be here have not changed at all.
Nor has the tension the article identified. Longtime owners watching their equity climb while being unable to afford anything else in the city is still the defining Bernal problem, and it is the conversation I have most often with people who have lived here for twenty years and are trying to work out what their options actually are.
