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Despite a draft motion that led us to believe that San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Commission would disapprove recommending that the Board of Supervisors designate the Appleton & Wolfard designed North…
The sale of the “completely renovated” 6521 California closed escrow yesterday with a reported contract price of $640,000 ($434 per square foot), down 32 percent from its purchase price of…
As we wrote ten days ago: Hours after our noting the bank-owned listing for 425 1st Street #3908 at $695,000, the sales office at One Rincon Hill reduced the list…
Listed for $1,599,000 as a bit of a fixer (or at least an updater) in July of 2007, 56 Sotelo Avenue sold for $1,900,000 a month later establishing a friendly…
Fifteen months ago the 12 condos of FORM 14 (480 14th Street) hit the market. A month later the units were pulled from the MLS and the building went the…
The proposed development of 801 Brannan and One Henry Adams (click renderings to enlarge) has been in the works for over ten years, at one point hoping to be delivered…
U.S. housing starts fell to an annual pace of 593,000 in May, down 10 percent from April but up 7.8 percent year-over-year. Permit activity in the U.S. hit a one-year…
The renovated red Victorian at 1499 Masonic is back on the market (and back on its lot). Purchased for $2,275,000 in 2005, asking $2,095,000 in 2010 but not official inventory.…
Officially it’s a $1,750,000 “horizontal and vertical extension” of 485 Elizabeth, a 1,098 square foot single-family home that’s on its way to becoming two foot single-family dwellings (numbers 485 and…
The S&P 500 is back to even for the year to date, up 20.73% over the past year. The Dow remains down 116 points from its close on May 6…