Existing U.S. Home Sales Pace Down 6.3% Year-Over-Year In March
The pace of seasonally adjusted existing-home sales in the U.S. increased 3.7 percent from an upwardly revised 4.92 million in February to a 5.10 million pace in March, down 6.3…
Color Me Yours At 2523 Steiner
Perhaps they’ve finally cried a color uncle over at 2523 Steiner as what appeared to have been a base coat last week is looking a little more temporarily permanent as…
Cut? What Cut? (As The S&P Bounces 1.4 Percent)
“Global stocks rallied the most this year and the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged to an almost three-year high as Intel Corp. forecast higher sales and company results in Europe…
Appealing Planning’s Approval To Willfully Rebuild 1268 Lombard
Amongst the items on the agenda for San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors this afternoon, an appeal of the Planning Commission’s approval to construct four new units at 1268 Lombard Street,…
Minor’s “Abandoned” Mansion At 3800 Washington
While it’s looking a lot better today than it did in 1906, as a plugged-in reader notes (and following an anonymous complaint a year ago), Halsey Minor’s Le Petit Trianon…
Argenta (1 Polk) Sold In Bulk To Behringer Harvard
As a plugged-in resident reports, the bulk sale of Argenta (1 Polk Street) which had been built as condominiums, was unsuccessfully marketed for sale in 2008, and turned rental in…
San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity Down 1.0% In March
Recorded home sales volume in San Francisco fell 1.0% on a year-over-year basis last month (495 recorded sales in March 2011 versus 500 sales in March 2010), up 45.6% as…
Nuances Of Being A Nuisance (Versus Simply Illegal)
Amongst the items on the agenda for San Francisco’s Land Use and Economic Development Committee this afternoon, an ordinance which would “declare the illegal dumping of debris and waste construction…
Fairmont Hotel Redevelopment Plan Checks Out Early
Despite years of wrangling and design, it would appear as though the plan to redevelop San Francisco’s Fairmont hotel and convert up to 286 of the hotel’s rooms to condominiums…
Standard & Poor’s Cuts And The S&P Tumbles
“U.S. stocks sank the most in a month, longer-term Treasuries declined and gold gained after Standard & Poor’s cut the nation’s credit outlook to negative….The S&P 500 tumbled 1.5 percent…