Care To Share Your Neighborhood Two Cents And Help A Reader Out?
You’ve seen the HOK design for a tower at 535 Mission, construction of which was suspended soon after the lot was cleared (now surrounded by a chain link fence). And…
Confidential Sales In More Ways Than One: 2430 Broadway
A plugged-in tipster notes that while not listed or official “inventory,” 2430 Broadway is on the market. As our tipster notes, “totally redone by Ann Brown a few years back,…
150 Otis: From Temporary To Permanent Shelter As Proposed
“ want to develop 150 Otis St., a surplus city-owned building, into permanent affordable rental housing for chronically homeless senior citizen vets. The project is scheduled to be completed in…
Care To Get Your Castle On? A Restored Albion Castle Returns
A few months after Laughing Squid launched their blog from Albion Castle in early 2005 the Hunter’s Point property at 881 Innes Avenue was auctioned off at the Palace Hotel…
The Dude Buys 2201 Baker (“Confidentially”)
The inside scoop on the sale of 2201 Baker from a plugged-in tipster: “All contingencies have been removed and the funds all went into escrow Monday 9/14. City to record…
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Through The Looking Glass Floors Of 601 4th Street #319
One of 88 live/work lofts in the Holliday Development’s 1991 Heublien Building conversion, 601 4th Street #319 last sold for $335,000 in September 1995. Since then, however, the 1,965 square…
A 2004 Comp Killer On Chester Avenue
The bank-owned sale of 126 Chester Avenue closed escrow yesterday with a reported contract price of $505,800. And while that’s “13% over asking!” and with “Multiple Offers!” (a.k.a. “signs of…
See, Two (Shower) Heads Are Better Than One…
Agent owned and listed as a short sale, 4096 17th Street #206 was purchased for $500,000 in October of 2005 and then remodeled. And while there’s only one bedroom and…
Eminent Domain Suit Semi-Successfully Snatches Hugo Hotel
As a plugged-in reader noted a few days ago, The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency seems to have prevailed in their eminent domain action for the long-vacant Hugo Hotel on 6th…
501 Beale #12G: No Short Sale For You! (Foreclosure Instead)
Purchased for $975,000 in May of 2006, Watermark (501 Beale) #12G returned to the market this past June as a short sale with a “$500,000” list price. Taken back by…