Recorded San Francisco Sales Up 20.6% In April (Year-Over-Year)
Recorded home sales volume in San Francisco rose 20.6% on a year-over-year basis last month (509 recorded sales in April 2012 versus 422 sales in April 2011), down 7.6% as…
Bernal Heights Contemporary Cage Match
We’re not sure it’s a fair fight, but with the “modern architectural view home” at 118 Elsie having just hit the market listed for $1,295,000, a reader suggests a bare…
San Francisco’s Total Housing Inventory And Pipeline Report
The Planning Commission will get their first peek at the Planning Department’s latest Housing Inventory report this afternoon, you get it this morning. With 372,831 total housing units in San…
From The Dotcom Days To Today As Viewed From A Penthouse
Purchased as new for $3,980,000 as the dotcom days were in decline in December 2000, the Brannan’s tower one penthouse #18D resold for $2,810,000 in August 2005 at which point…
Julius & Julia
Julia Morgan designed in 1908 overlooking the Presidio (and Julius Kahn playground today), the six bedroom home at 3377 Pacific Avenue has returned to the market listed for $11,500,000 having…
North Beach Pagoda Theater Set To Be Sold To New Yorkers Today?
According to a tipster, Joel Campos who purchased the long shuttered North Beach Pagoda Theater in 2004 and waged a long battle to secure approvals to develop the blighted building…
555 Mission In Contract At $800 Per Foot, Highest Price Since 2007
Having leased the 14,718 square foot penthouse atop 555 Mission Street for seven years at a rate of $84 per square foot in 2008, in 2009 Sequoia Capital subleased the…
8 Washington Watch: Development Approved!
In just under an hour at 4pm, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hear the appeals and either uphold or overturn the Planning Commission’s approvals for the 8…
Bay Area NIMBY’s Take Note (Golden Gate Bridge Edition)
As John King and a reader note: “Critics depicted the as financially unsound, legally dubious, an aesthetic blight and an engineering hazard in the decade before the start of construction…
The 380 14th Street (AKA 299 Valencia) Sales Scoop
A plugged-in tipster reports with respect to 299 Valencia: My friend just opened escrow on a unit there. The models aren’t even open to the public yet, elevator isn’t installed,…