Cash Is King But Loans Can Be Leveraged
Having sold as new for $459,000 in the year 2000 and refinanced in 2007 with a $525,000 first, 2030 3rd Street #9 returned to the market in November 2010 listed…
15-Year Mortgage Rates Hit All-Time Low As Purchase Activity Drops
According to Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates averaged 3.88 percent (with 0.7 points) for the week ending today, down from 3.98 percent last week,…
San Francisco Water Taxi Service Take Two
Having issued a request for providers in 2009 and approved a proposal from San Francisco Water Taxi LLC to provide water taxi service in San Francisco from South Beach to…
Agent Versus Auctioneer: The Race Is On At 325 Berry
In default since January 2011 when already $34,633 past due on a $727,920 first, and originally scheduled to first hit the courthouse steps last month but postponed, 325 Berry #602…
Bank of America’s Short Sales Get Shorter Come Saturday
On Saturday, Bank of America will implement a new workflow for processing short sales. While the time from offer to acceptance (or not) currently averages well over a month for…
Free The Toasters! (AKA Rationalizing Restaurant And Bar Controls)
Speaking of Neighborhood Commercial District controls, yesterday San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a simplification of San Francisco’s Planning Code and permitting process which currently defines 13 different eating…
Formulating Controls To Chase Financial Services Away
There are 39 Districts within San Francisco in which Formula Retail controls which limit or prohibit formula retail apply, controls “adopted to maintain the unique visual character of the City’s…
At Least It’s Not Mounted Over A Fireplace
As we wrote in 2006 with respect to the photo above, “While plasma screen televisions still manage to grab people’s attention, sometimes they do so for all the wrong reasons.”…
A Piers 30-32 Warriors Stadium Pipe Dream
With an estimated $50 million to simply prepare Piers 30-32 for any major development (on top of the $8 million the port has already committed for the America’s Cup) and…
Fewer Walls (And No Apples) At 42 August Alley
Purchased for $2,250,000 in 2008, in 2009 walls were moved, a new kitchen and wet bar were installed, and “selective structural work” was completed at 42 August Alley. Listed with…