Coming Up Short On Apparent Appreciation In Bernal: 3661 Folsom
Purchased for $685,000 in 2005 (10% over asking at the time), it’s a plugged-in reader that notes the buyers of the single-family Bernal house put nothing down (there’s nothing like…
Three Years Later For A One Rincon Hill Townhome (And Comments)
Originally “released for sale” in March 2007 with prices “from $1.2 million to $1.8 million” for the 14 townhomes raning in size from 900 to 2,350 square feet, it was…
Conservation Of Crime (And Gentrification): Tenderloin To The Marina?
While the Marina exports an element to Hayes Valley, a plugged-in tipster reports that the Marina seems to be importing elements of the Tenderloin. Recently, a friend of mine living…
Commercial Comp (And Art Gallery Coming) On Union Street
A plugged-in tipster reports that the sale of the commercial retail condo at 2120 Union Street closed escrow on Friday with a reported contract price of $843,700 ($623 per square…
Speaking Of Million Dollar Foreclosures (And “Shadow Inventory”)
Purchased for $1,212,000 with ten percent down and two variable rate loans in November of 2005, 773 Rhode Island returned to the market in March of 2007 seeking $1,395,000. It…
The Grove Heading To Hayes Valley
As the scaffolding is stripped from the mixed-use development at the corner of Franklin and Hayes (231 Franklin), a plugged-in reader delivers the scoop on what’s heading into that corner…
Whole Foods On Stanyan At Haight (Less 62 Condos) Has Its Lease
As we reported via a plugged-in tipster in May: “The other half had a storewide meeting at Whole Foods last night. It was told to them that the has been…
High-End Foreclosures Swimming Against A Slowing Low-End Stream
It’s a story on a trend that shouldn’t catch any truly plugged-in readers by surprise: foreclosures are heading upstream. And while the raw numbers remain relatively small as compared to…
The Captain’s House Goes For To A Cruise?
It appears an apology is in order. Last month a plugged-in reader reported that 300 Sea Cliff had sold for $16,363,569 on 9/10/2009 to which we replied: Sorry, but we…
Half-Price Sale For (Mostly Vacant) Class A Commercial Continues
“Prudential Real Estate Investors is in contract to sell the to Shorenstein for $170 a square foot , a 56 percent drop from the $385 a square foot or $56.9…