Trying To Tell It Like It Is For 114 Crescent Avenue In Bernal Heights
From the listing (verbatim) for 114 Crescent Avenue: 50K pride redution. This is a beatiful house. It was just too much money before we reduced the price! Now asking $875,000…
Take Two To Stimulate New-Home Purchases In California
“Last week, the California Senate passed a bill 35-1 that would provide $30 million in tax credits to about 4,000 additional new-home purchases . The bill now moves to the…
Reader Versus Realtor: Did 2151 Green Street Just Sell At Auction?
If a reader is correct, 2151 Green Street ended up selling at auction on 10/15 for $3,066,001, one dollar over its opening bid. That being said, 2151 Green Street is…
RealFacts Reports Asking Rents Down 5.6% In San Francisco
As we wrote in April: Based on a RealFacts survey of “professionally managed apartment complexes with 50 or more units,” The Chronicle reports that average rents in San Francisco are…
1390 Mission Gets Its Red, Green, And Yellow On
While a couple of months behind schedule, the 12-story Mercy Housing project at 1390 Mission (northeast corner at 10th) is now sporting its full array of colors. Once again, 136…
Proof That Prime View Properties Haven’t Depreciated At All
Purchased for $1,995,000 in April 2004, 1440 Kearny hit the market in October of 2008 seeking $2,850,000. Reduced a number of times to $2,295,000 before being relisted, the sale of…
Buy A BMR…For $10K More Than Bank-Owned At Candlestick Point
The Mayor’s Office of Housing is helping to promote the resale of Candlestick Point (101 Crescent Way) Below Market Rate unit #2213. It’s two bedrooms, two baths, 1,063 square feet…
Suspended Disbelief (And Renderings) For 15 Surrey
As the 625 Square foot one bedroom and one bath 15 Surrey Street looked in August of 2007 when purchased for $731,000. And for the most part as it looks…
Hating On Solar Panels In The Upper Haight
Four excerpts from the San Francisco Examiner: “After installation of the panels for the three-unit building …nearby homeowners filed an appeal with The City against the plans. The neighbors are…
A “Fresh” Look At Firehouse 44 (3816 22nd Street) After 515 Days
It’s been on the market since May 22, 2008. And during that time the asking price has dropped from $6,375,000 to $5,175,000. And no, 3816 22nd Street (a.k.a. Firehouse 44)…