QuickLinks: Six As The Magic Number
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Sign(s) Of The Times
Tipped by a loyal reader of SocketSite, we dispatched our staff photographer to 308 Presidio post-haste. No fewer than seven “For Sale” signs (there’s another behind the car) that all…
Forget $340M Powerball, Just Give Us A Damn Condo!
4,300 applicants, 400 drawn names, and only 20 lucky “winners”. Residents in other cities dream of winning multi-million dollar lotteries, while here in San Francisco we dream about winning the…
Median San Francisco Bay Area Home Prices Down $20k
According to the California Association of Realtors, the Median sales price of a San Francisco Bay Area home fell 2.8% last month (from $730k in August, to $710k in September).…
Potential Home (Depot) Wreckers
The Board of Supervisors is considering an appeal of the Planning Commissions approval for Home Depot’s Bayview project. Specifically, the supervisors were charged with looking at whether the project’s environmental…
Sweet Lime Green Victorians (Literally)
Okay, we know we’re pushing the boundaries a bit with regard to “real estate” news, but it’s worth it to report that artist Elizabeth Hickok has created a scale-model of…
POS (And We’re Not Talking Point Of Sale)
Marinite’s nano-puiblishing empire has expanded beyond the Marin Real Estate Bubble (which has been going strong since July). The newly added site, Marin PoS is billed as profiling “typical examples…
When Barrack Speaks, You Should Listen
Some choice quotes from Tom Barrack, head of Barrack’s Colony Capital (one of the largest private equity firms devoted to real estate and having provided returns of 21 percent annually…
A Million Here, A Million There
Two months ago we reported on Yahoo’s Letter of Intent to lease 200,000 square feet of prime San Francisco real estate. It now appears that they’re looking for “as much…
Open Meeting: Mid-Market Redevelopment
The Redevelopment Agency Board will review the redevelopment plan for the mid-Market area this afternoon at 4 p.m. The meeting is in Room 416 of City Hall. Pro: 3,000 new…