Behind CPMC’s Construction Fence On Cathedral Hill
The old Jack Tar Hotel is history. The excavators have been working overtime. And behind the fences on Cathedral Hill, the piles to shore up the site for CPMC’s Cathedral…
Grand Jury: Gloomy Outlook For Affordable Housing In SF, Unless…
In order to meet the Mayor’s goal of creating 30,000 new and rehabilitated homes in San Francisco by 2020, developers will need to deliver an average of 5,000 units of…
Plans For Twelve-Story Tenderloin Development Move Ahead
While SB Architects appears to have replaced Heller Manus as the architects of record, the plans for a 12-story building with a mix of market-rate residential units over ground floor…
Mortgage Rates Holding, Remain Lower Year-Over-Year
The average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage ticked up to 4.15 percent over the past week and remains 43 basis points below the three-year high rate of 4.58 percent…
Modern Cow Hollow Home On The Market For $10.5M
Gutted and remodeled by Sheinholtz Associates in the 1990’s and then rebuilt in concrete, steel, aluminum and glass by Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects in 2006, the modern Cow Hollow home at…
Francisco Reservoir Transfer Tentatively Approved
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has approved a transfer of the long-shuttered Francisco Reservoir on Russian Hill to the City’s Recreation and Park Department. If San Francisco’s Board of…
A Peek Inside 222 Second Street’s Public Space And Art
Already fully pre-leased to LinkedIn, Tishman Speyer’s 450,000-square-foot building rising on the southwest corner of Second and Howard will reach 26 stories in height and should be ready for occupancy…
Legislation To Block Pinterest Move Advances To Board
Despite an offer by the owners of the San Francisco Design Center to cover up to $3 million in relocation costs for tenants which would be displaced by the conversion…
Ballot Initiative To Restrict Airbnb Activity Withdrawn
The backers of a ballot initiative to restrict Airbnb’s operations in San Francisco have withdrawn their proposed measure despite having claimed to have gathered over six thousand more signatures than…
International Buyer Trends And Interest In San Francisco
The total sales volume of U.S. real estate to international buyers increased to $92.2 billion over the past year, up an estimated 35 percent and representing roughly 7 percent of…