Bay Area Luxury Home Values Hit All-Time High
First Republic’s “Prestige Index” for the values of San Francisco Bay Area homes worth at least $1.0 million and currently averaging $3.45 million rose 3.8 percent from the second to…
Getty Mansion Price Slashed $1.5 Million
William and Vanessa Getty have just cut the list price for their Pacific Heights mansion at 2900 Vallejo Street by $1.5 million and are now asking $14.5 million for the…
Warriors Arena Redesigned, Enough To Quell Toilet Snark?
It hasn’t yet been officially released nor distributed, but the conceptual design for the Golden State Warriors proposed arena to rise in Mission Bay has been revised, perhaps in part…
550-Foot Block 5 Tower And Terraces In Context
As we first revealed last week, the designs for the proposed 550-foot office tower to rise on the northeast corner of Howard and Beale, also known as Transbay Block 5,…
San Francisco Continues Record Employment Run
Employment in San Francisco has hit another all-time high as the number of city residents with paychecks increased by 4,300 in October and now totals 481,900 with an unemployment rate…
Three Months Later And Flipped For $2.3 Million More
Purchased as a three-unit building for $2.6 million three months ago and quickly remodeled as a “lavish” single-family home with gold fixtures, marble countertops and a La Cornue range in…
New Details And Timing For Twisty 400-Foot Tower
Tishman Speyer is pushing forward with their plans to build a modern 400-foot residential tower designed by architect Jeanne Gang on the northwest corner of Folsom and Spear Street (a.k.a…
First Year-Over-Year Increase For Existing U.S. Home Sales Since 2013
The seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. ticked up 1.5 percent in October to an annualized rate of 5.26 million, the highest annualized rate since September 2013…
Underbuilding Along San Francisco’s New Transit Spine
Speaking of development along San Francisco’s emergent Fourth Street Transit spine, while the City’s Central SoMa Plan envisions up-zoning the southwest corner of Brannan and Fourth to allow a tower…
Union Square Rents Rocket, Strongest Growth Worldwide
Rents for retail spaces around San Francisco’s Union Square have increased at the fastest pace of all prime retail areas across the globe over the past year, up 30 percent…