Equity Markets Jump As Holders Of Greek Debt Are Jabbed
With bondholders set to “voluntarily” accept 50 percent writedowns on Greek debt, the Euro STOXX 50 jumped 5.9 percent while the S&P 500 opened the day up 2 percent. With…
Marked To Market (And Back Below 2001) For 12 Minerva
As we wrote this past December: We’re not sure how a home that last sold for $669,000 in 2004 becomes a “million dollar home” other than in Realtor speak, but…
The New Plans And Latest Recommendations For Japantown
With the grand plans for a complete redevelopment of San Francisco’s Japan Center Mall and Peace Plaza waylaid by the economy back in 2008, a Japantown Organizing Committee has been…
The Well Designed Ten Foot Home On Shrader Sells
The sale of the well designed ten foot wide home at 1415 Shrader Street closed escrow yesterday with a reported contract price of $849,000 ($824 per square foot) having been…
A Quick Tenant-ectomy And Attempted Flip
As we first reported when the tenant occupied single-family home at 1532 Church Street hit the market two months ago: The list price and lack of interior photos for 1532…
Over Asking (But A Lost Decade) For 65 Zircon Place
The sale of 65 Zircon Place has closed escrow just eleven days after we first featured it, selling for a reported $1,800,000. Call it a quick sale and $21,000 “over…
S&P/Case-Shiller San Francisco: Prices Relatively Flat In August
According to the August 2011 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA fell a nominal 0.1% from July ’11 to August ’11 but remain down…
PETCO Withdraws Application To Revitalize 5411 Geary
As we wrote when we first reported the Planning Department’s recommendation against allowing an Unleashed by PETCO to open at 5411 Geary Boulevard: No word on who the Department or…
No Equity? No Appraisal? No Problem!
From Bloomberg with respect to a new plan to save the housing market and economy: U.S. regulators will let qualified homeowners refinance mortgages regardless of how much their houses have…
The Archbishop’s Old Mansion At 1000 Fulton Street Hits The Market
Built for the second archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Francisco in 1904, the Archbishop’s Mansion at 1000 Fulton Street has hit the market asking $7,950,000. Thirteen bedrooms,…