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“The world’s third-largest retailer plans to open the first full-service grocery store along San Francisco’s Third Street corridor, concluding a more than decadelong effort by city officials to expand the…
Okay, we’re giving you the big jump on this one (as in “onstruction is due to start by Spring 2008… both houses will go on the market as the project…
Six weeks ago the Federal Reserve cut both the benchmark interest rate and the discount rate by 25 basis points (a quarter percent) while signaling that further cuts were unlikely.…
A plugged-in reader notes that Trulia has started mapping foreclosure activity in San Francisco as reported by RealtyTrac (which not only includes bank-owned properties but notices of default and scheduled…
If Trinity officials are correct in their estimate that it will take two years to finish the first phase of the new Trinity Plaza (1188 Mission), then the first tenants…
A reader wonders if we know anything about the four modern units coming soon at 1440 Jackson. And to be honest, beyond what’s available on the 1440 Jackson website, we…
For the first time in nine months, the National Association of Realtors has revised their forecasts for national existing home sales in 2007 and 2008 upwards. In both cases, however,…
It’s neighborhood perception versus (at least one reader’s) reality: As someone who has lived within two blocks of for the last 15 years, I think it deserves mention that this…
It was over a year ago that The Potrero (451 Kansas) began advertising “New homes in old San Francisco from the low $400,000s.” But this weekend (and roughly two months…
It’s another reader’s comment (with which we very much agree): I have been an architect and developer myself for over 25 years and it has been interesting, to say the…