50 Cent (On The Dollar) In Da Condo On Nob Hill
With $49,853 past due on a $1,950,000 mortgage taken out in November 2006, the two units on the 14th floor of Gramercy Towers which were combined to create a 2,300…
Selling Short In 2011 Having Gone Long On Lake In 2004
Purchased for $1,615,000 in early 2004 having already been renovated, the single-family home at 1738 Lake Street returned to the market last March listed for $2,100,000. Reduced to $1,950,000 last…
A Battle Between The Well-Connected And The Well-Heeled Resumes
The battle between a well-connected development team renovating the big Pacific Heights home at 2507 Pacific and a well-heeled neighborhood of objectors is back in front of San Francisco’s Planning…
A $1,568,176 “Waiver” For Rincon Hill Park (And $6,331,824 To Go)
The land fronting the proposed 333 Harrison Street development has been valued by the city at $6,000,000. And the budget to develop the parcel into the proposed Rincon Hill Park…
New Construction Along Columbus (1255-1275) As Proposed
As proposed the existing 15,852-square-foot office building at the intersection of Columbus, North Point, and Leavenworth will be razed and a 54,420-square-foot, mixed-use building with 6,215 square feet of ground-floor…
Will 953 Hampshire Be “Hot” At $425 Per Listed Square Foot?
The listing calls it a prized three-bedroom single-family home in the Mission with a three-car garage that’s listed for $425 per square foot ($799,000). We’ll call it perfectly livable with…
A Modern Miraloma Apple Returns At 801 Teresita Boulevard
As we wrote about 801 Teresita Boulevard in July 2007: The little (and not so little) things that caught our eye at 801 Teresita: heated granite floors, a Duravit sink,…
No Sale Despite A $1,000 Per Square Foot Price Cut On Yerba Buena
Despite a $6,950,000 (55 percent) price cut since being listed $12,700,000 in 2007, and another 250 days on the market (most recently asking $5,750,000), the listing for the 6,555 square…
San Francisco’s Modern Era Of Design And Development
San Francisco’s Planning Department has recently completed a comprehensive Historic Context Statement for Modern Architecture and Landscape Design in San Francisco between 1935 and 1970 in order to provide a…
Dow Closes Above 12,000 For First Time Since June 2008
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed the day at 12,040.16, its first close above the 12,000 mark since June 2008 while the S&P 500 closed the day at 1,307.59, its…