If you want to know where the Bay Area housing market is headed, skip the headlines and watch the grocery stores. In the past 30 days, plans landed on planners’ desks to turn two Safeway sites into housing — 710 new homes between them. As someone who reads planning filings the way other people read…

Thirteen years in real estate has taught me plenty about houses — foundations, staging, the way morning light moves through a kitchen. But the hardest lesson had nothing to do with property. It’s that most agents don’t work together. They work against each other. And for someone whose great joy in life is bringing people…