SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory Update: 6/29/09
Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco declined 0.7% over the past two weeks (versus an average drop of 2.6% for the same two week…
Past Performance Recoveries Are No Guarantee Of Future Results
“The residential real estate market improved ahead of the end of the past seven contractions, with home construction starts beginning to climb an average of seven months before gross domestic…
A White House To End A Black Week
Five bedrooms, five baths and over 5,000 square feet, the contemporary 388 Lansdale was built in 1991 the same year Michael Jackson released Dangerous. And while not one of his…
Japantown’s Better Neighborhood Plan Update: Draft Acknowledged
While 3D Investments’ redevelopment of the Japan Center Mall and Peace Plaza was pushed back by the economy late last year, the Planning Department’s Japantown Better Neighborhood Plan has been…
Strata And Avalon III Riding A Mission Bay Rental Wave
“The Strata, the first development on the still-unopened new Fourth Street, has leased 103 apartments in 90 days…four apartments a month above leasing goals, although Urban Housing Group has slashed…
A Landmark District Seven Mansion Foreclosure (2799 Pacific)
Commissioned by Dr. C. N. Ellinwood in 1893, 2799 Pacific was designed by Eugene Freeman and its 28 rooms, 14 fireplaces and glass domed center hallway were finished in 1894.…
Will SWL 337 Or SWL 351 Meet The Same Fate As Transbay Block 8?
“With many developers predicting that highrise development of any sort won’t work economically for another five years, public agencies are struggling with a development model in which private builders pay…
While Fall Falls We Doubt Spring Would Have Sprung
Returning to the market this winter, 1333 Waller (a.k.a. “Fall” in the row of “Four Seasons” Victorians on Waller) closed escrow near the end of spring (6/12/09) with a reported…
Will We See 70 Williams Touted On The News Tonight?
As we wrote about 70 Williams last month under the headline of “A Single-Family In The Threes (But Expect At Least As Many Offers)“: So Williams isn’t the most scenic…
A Gold Mine Hill Apple (38 Topaz Way) And Peek Into The Past
The sale of 38 Topaz Way up in Gold Mine Hill closed escrow yesterday with a reported contract price of $790,000 (12% under asking and 10.9% under its last sale…