3130 Pacific Ave
Price: $12,495,000

Fully detached, brand new, custom designed, highly detailed Arts & Crafts home on the Presidio Wall. This home is comfortable, stunning, quiet, quaint, and despite the fact that it has a home theater, elevator to all floors, radiant heated hardwood floors, audio/visual system with built-in speakers in most rooms, Smart Wire for phone, video and computer networking, terraces, gardens with automatic sprinkler systems, wine cellar and many more modern amenities, it feels like home and it feels like it’s been there for years. Amazingly well done. Now, if I only had $13 million dollars…

[update: this property has been on the market for 7 days. As of today (6/6) somebody not only made an offer on this property, but it got accepted. Not only did this offer get accepted, the status went straight to Pending, so I would assume it's a contingency free offer.]

compare that to:

2266 Vallejo Street
Price: $12,975,000

I’ll start by saying this home has the best bath(tub) in San Francisco. The house is large, beautifully detailed, has an elevator, six bedrooms, seven and a half bathrooms, and is a steel framed panoramic view home. The home has 5 levels and no required bearing walls inside the structure. Materials in this building are truly quality–nothing was spared and there are views for miles.

If you had $12.5 million to spend on a house, which would you buy?