Mortgage Rates Return To All-Time Lows
According to Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates averaged 3.49 percent (with 0.6 points) for the week ending today, down from 3.55 percent last week,…
Born A Three-Unit Building, Rebuilt As A 5,000 Square Foot SF Home
Built as a three-unit Mid-Century building, 350 Collingwood was legally expanded and converted into a 5,246 square foot single-family home circa 2003. In 2005, the renovated home sold for $3,595,000…
Groundbreaking Twin Peaks Tavern Recommended For Landmarking
An old Irish dive bar with its windows covered so that “wives couldn’t see their husbands drinking” when purchased by two lesbians in 1972, the windows of the Twin Peaks…
Oh Thank Heaven For The Renovation Of 220 Battery
The little building at 220 Battery Street is owned by the Japanese company Kokubu Kensetsu Kogyo. And in the words of a plugged-in tipster, the building has been more or…
Existing U.S. Home Sales Pace Hits Two-Year High In August
The pace of seasonally adjusted existing-home sales in the U.S. increased 7.8 percent from 4.47 million in July to a 4.82 million pace in August, up 9.3 percent from the…
The Prolific Henry Doelger And His Likely To Be Landmarked Building
The Art Deco Doelger Building at 320-326 Judah Street was built in 1932, serving for two decades as the headquarters, warehouse and sales office for San Francisco builder extraordinaire Henry…
Boom Goes 2300 Broadway
Built as the sister project to 2306 Broadway in 1989, the 4,084 square foot home at 2300 Broadway has hit the market listed for $6,200,000 with three bedrooms, three baths,…
Is It Prime Time To Develop Muni’s 5.4-Acre Presidio Yard?
With the redesign of Masonic Avenue in the works, Target on its way across the Boulevard, and money flowing for development projects in San Francisco, a reader can’t help but…
New Design For Masonic Avenue To Be Approved This Afternoon
On the agenda for San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors and Parking Authority Commission this afternoon, the approval of the proposed $18 million “Boulevard” redesign of Masonic Avenue…
City Bonds Slated To Finance 2175 Market Street Development
According to the City and County of San Francisco Residential Mortgage Revenue Bond Law, the City of San Francisco is empowered to issue and sell mortgage bonds “to finance the…