Up, Down, And Back To Where It Started For The S&P 500 In 2011
The S&P 500 closed the day and 2011 at 1,257.60, down .04 points (0.0%) from where it started the year and down 7.8% from an April high, but up 14.4%…
California Supreme Court Rules Against Redevelopment Agencies
The California Supreme Court has upheld the legislative move orchestrated by Governor Brown that effectively abolished redevelopment agencies across California. The multi-million dollar question: can large-scale neighborhood revitalization and redevelopment…
The Great Courthouse Race And End Of Year Hail Mary Listing
Remodeled in 2003 per the permits and purchased for $630,000 in 2004, the Outer Parkside single-family home at 2542 39th Avenue has just returned to the market listed as a…
U.S. Pending Sales Up 5.9% In November But Failed Closings Loom
As prices continued to tick down in October, the National Associations of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index increased 7.3 percent from October to November, up 5.9 percent year over year.…
Construction Commences On 120 Units At Folsom And Essex
Construction has commenced at the southeast corner of Folsom and Essex, also known as Transbay Block 11A. As plugged-in people know, it’s an eight (8) story building with 120 below…
S&P/Case-Shiller San Francisco: Homes Slip, Condos Dip In October
According to the October 2011 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA fell 0.7% from September ’11 to October ’11, down 4.7% year-over-year (versus a…
Happy Holidays
Happy holidays to all and safe travels if you’re traveling, perhaps one day departing from San Francisco’s Transbay Transist Center which is slated to be unwrapped in six years. Have…
Apples To Oranges To Apples (And Three “Free” Years) At 501 Beale
Already $87,355 past due on a $652,000 loan by the time a notice of default was filed last December, a past due amount which had grown to $115,828 this past…
U.S. New Home Sales: Up 9.8% Year-Over-Year In November
The seasonally adjusted annual pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. increased to 315,000 in November, up 1.6 percent from a revised rate of 310,000 in October and…
It Would Have Been 50 Percent Over Had They Priced At A Million…
Listed for $1,100,000 last month, the 1,810 square foot Albert Lanier designed home at 4378 Cesar Chavez quickly went into contract. As a plugged-in reader soon reported, “The sign in…