If You Have To Ask (Or If You Did): The Fairmont Edition
Following the failed bid to convert up to 286 of the hotel’s rooms to condominiums, the storied 591-room Fairmont San Francisco hotel is being put up for sale without an…
Below Market Rate For Above Market Down (And A Bit Of Irony)
The Mayor’s Office of Housing Below Market Rate (BMR) homeownership program was established to offer “low to moderate income” households “the option of purchasing homes that are priced below the…
365 Fulton Exposed
Formerly known as Central Freeway Parcel G, to be known as the Dr. Raye Richardson Apartments, and having started site work early last year, the scaffolding around 365 Fulton is…
The Plans For 800 Presidio Avenue Don’t Appeal To Everyone
On the agenda for San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors this afternoon, an appeal of the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed Booker T. Washington Community Services Center at 800…
While A Big One Sells, Another Is Scheduled For The Steps
As we wrote about 818 Steiner this past February: Built for Louis Hartter, his wife Emily Geisel and their five children in 1899, the 5,693 finished square feet of 818…
No Longer “Distressed,” 1390 McAllister Closes Down 16% Under ’06
While the listing was changed from “REO” (bank-owned) to a regular sale following our featuring it, the change doesn’t seem to have affected the outcome for 1390 McAllister. Purchased for…
Ahoy There Buyers…
Last asking $9,900,000, while the sixteenth listing for 830 El Camino Del Mar has been withdrawn from the MLS and it’s no longer official inventory, a plugged-in tipster reports: Well,…
San Francisco Listed Sales Volume Down 14% In May (YOY)
The sales volume of listed single-family homes in San Francisco fell 11.4% on a year-over-year basis in May, down 27 sales from 236 in 2010 to 209 in 2011 as…
Starting Over At 449 Myra Way
Sporting a Viking range and Sub-Zero fridge in the kitchen, the short sale of the “delightful home with fabulous views in a terrific location” up in Miraloma Park at 449…
121 9th Street Unwrapped And 20 New Condos A Few Weeks Away
Plugged-in people have known what was rising, and what had been, at 121 9th Street. And they now know the building, having recently been unwrapped, should be construction complete in…