One Of Thirty Underwater Properties New To The Market This Week
Of 83 new listings in San Francisco over the past week, 30 (36%) are either bank owned (16) or seeking a short sale (14). One such listing is for Watermark…
Mission Walk (330/335 Berry) Phase 2 Inventory/Application Scoop
Mission Walk will begin accepting applications for 66 below market rate (BMR) condos at 11AM on December 5, 2009. Despite an oversubscribed lottery last year, seven (7) three-bedrooms and fifty-nine…
Animating The Unemployment Wave And Wondering About Its Impact
As the pace of existing home purchases in U.S. picks up and the latest Case-Shiller Index twenty-city composite ticks up, a plugged-in tipster points us in the direction of a…
Recounting The Height Of The Infinity “Fire Sale” Flames
A plugged-in reader reports: “Lowest price sold 2/2 at Tower II is $535,000 for 1,187 sf. Mid 2009. All 1/1 are now gone and it is unlikely to find any…
September Case-Shiller: Bottom Tiers Up But Flat At Top For SF MSA
According to the September 2009 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA gained 1.3% from August ’09 to September ’09, down 7.8% year-over-year and down…
Infinity Tower I Sold Out, Tower II At 70 Percent, 85 Percent Overall
From the sales office at The Infinity: The Infinity San Francisco, a 650-unit luxury condominium development by Tishman Speyer, announced today that its 237-unit Tower I is 100 percent closed…
The Credits Roll On The 2009 Sale Of Marquee Lofts #708 (And #605)
Marquee Lofts (151 Alice B. Toklas Place) #708 first changed hands on 9/30/04 for $607,500; sold on 10/05/06 for $865,000 (having been upgraded); and was bought back by Merrill Lynch…
San Francisco’s 2010 Condominium Conversion Lottery Kicks Off
Ticket sales for the 2010 Condominium Conversion Lottery kicked off this morning and will run through 4:45 PM on Friday, January 22, 2010. The drawing for the rights to convert…
Pace Of U.S. Existing Home Purchases Up 23.5 Percent YOY
The pace of existing U.S. homes purchases hit a 6.1 million annual rate in October, up from a 5.54 million pace in September and up 23.5 percent on a year-over…
The 1645 Pacific Project: Latest Designs (And Neighbors’ Concerns)
The latest designs for the 1645 Pacific Avenue project we first introduced you to 21 months ago are now online. As proposed, 1645 Pacific (currently two stories and 30 feet)…