The New Heights Of Homes To Rise In Visitacion Valley
The details of Urban Paragon’s revised plans for redeveloping the former Schlage Lock site in Visitacion Valley are starting to emerge. The exact number of proposed residential units to rise…
Major Mid-Market Retail Development Set To Start Construction
First approved for development in 2010 but then lost to foreclosure in 2011, the mid-market retail development originally known as CityPlace but since dubbed “Market Street Place” will start construction…
Index For Bay Area Luxury Home Values Hits A Record High
The First Republic Prestige Home Index for values of “San Francisco” homes worth more than $1.0 million and currently averaging $3.18 million jumped 3.4 percent in the first quarter of…
Bill To Close Proposition 13 Loophole Passed By State Assembly
As the State Senate revived a bill to freeze speculative evictions in San Francisco, the State Assembly passed a bill designed to expand the definition of a “change of ownership”…
Bill To Freeze Ellis Act Evictions In San Francisco Revived
Falling three votes short on Wednesday with only two days left to pass the bill to the State Assembly, Senator Mark Leno bill to curb speculative Ellis Act evictions in…
Seawall Site And Piers Offered To Lucas, Will The Force Be With Us?
As expected, Mayor Ed Lee has officially offered San Francisco’s Seawall Lot 330 to George Lucas as a site upon which to build Lucas’ Cultural Arts Museum. The Mayor has…
Hope And Timing For Fire-Damaged Mission Bay Development
All the repercussions of the fire that destroyed the six-story Mission Bay Block 5 development this past March are still unknown, including whether or not the concrete podium of the…
Pending Home Sales Barely Budge Despite Increase In Inventory
While the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index inched up a nominal 0.4 percent from March to April, it’s now running 9.2 percent lower on a year-over-year basis…
Ballot Measure To Clampdown On Airbnb-ing Moves Ahead
The backers of the proposed ballot measure which would clampdown on illegal short-term rentals and Airbnb’s business in San Francisco by instituting the “Neighborhood Preservation and Public Revenue Recovery Ordinance”…
Bill To Freeze Speculative Evictions In SF Fails On Senate Floor
Mark Leno’s Senate Bill 1439 which seeks “to ensure that real estate speculators in San Francisco do not buy rent-controlled property and empty it of long-term tenants” failed to clear…