Razing The Roof For Condos To Rise
With the Nob Hill Neighbors’ appeal to block the development of 1601 Larkin Street denied and the project’s permits reinstated, the dilapidated First St. John’s United Methodist Church at the…
Employment In San Francisco Hits An All-Time High
With the number of San Francisco residents with jobs having increased by 10,000 over the past year, the unemployment rate in the city has dropped to 4.4 percent and employment…
Only 81 Percent Over Asking In Pacific Heights
As we wrote last week, what happens when you list a big Pacific Heights property that’s in good condition, and with even better bones, for $687 a square foot while…
Ballot Measure To INCREASE Height Limits For Pier 70 Project
In a preemptive move designed to counter the likely passage of Proposition B (the Waterfront Height Limit Right to Vote Act), a ballot measure to increase the existing building height…
Discount For Going Big With A Jumbo Loan Has Disappeared
Having dropped to a six-month low last week, the average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage has ticked down one more basis point to 4.20 percent, 38 basis points below…
Purchased For 37 Percent Less, Sold For 90 Percent More
The 475-square-foot “junior one bedroom” condo #629 at 177 Townsend Street was purchased for $466,000 in August of 2007 and resold for $295,000 in November of 2011. With “over 35K”…
Armistead Maupin Returns To The City (San Francisco)
Having sold their Parnassus Heights home in 2012 and moved to Santa Fe, Armistead Maupin and husband Christopher Tuner are back in the city of San Francisco. According to Maupin…
The Wilson Building Reborn
Built in 1904 and first occupied by the John Breuner Furniture Company, the Wilson building at 973 Market Street withstood the Great Quake in 1906 but was gutted by the…
Big Oakland Hills Development Back In Play
Irvine-based SunCal has re-purchased the 167-acre Oak Knoll project site in the Oakland Hills, a site upon which the developer had previously planned to build nearly 1,000 homes, over 80,000…
Bay Area Median Home Sales Price Hits Post-Recession High
Bay Area home sales were relatively flat in April, dropping 0.9 percent year-over-year. The number of homes sold in San Francisco last month was relatively flat as well, dropping a…