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Earlier this week on SocketSite: Our thoughts on the listing for 1083 Hollister seventeen months ago (listed for $499,000 at the time). A take-charge (which we love) reader’s survey of…
“Menlo Park-based Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capital firms, has agreed to lease the top floor of the office tower Tishman Speyer is building at 555…
We’ve always loved the William Randolph Hearst-built Beaux-Arts building at 1001 California Street, both in terms of location and style. And as far as we know, the 3,500 square foot…
While “Operation Malicious Mortgage” has nabbed over 400 individuals over the past three months, none of the mortgage-fraud related arrests have occured in the Bay Area. Then again, it has…
Rumor has it that the grand Queen Anne at 719 Ashbury was once home to anarchists and Hell’s Angels (although not at the same time). Today, the remodeled home is…
Another trophy home on Vallejo is on the market (but not the MLS). “Built in 1928 for the Gilmore steel family and designed by John H. Powers,” 2950 Vallejo has…
No specific story of which we’re aware (other than asking almost $1,200 a square foot on Elizabeth), a few of the images simply caught our eyes (not to be confused…
From a plugged-in reader happily ensconced in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley: Nine safe years in my 1907 Victorian across 101 on Goettingen Street. Bay Views, Mountain View, ten minute walk…
It’s a French Chateau inspired home (at least on the outside) atop Liberty Hill (3690 21st Street) which was built in 1908 by banker and entrepreneur James “Sunny Jim” Rolph…
According to DataQuick, home sales volume in San Francisco fell 3.7% on a year-over-year basis last month (593 recorded sales in May ’08 versus 616 sales in May ‘07) and…