Inventory of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Starts to Build
While few homes were listed for sale last week on account of the holiday weekend, and the typical post-Super Bowl surge remains three weeks away, the inventory of homes listed…
Warriors Won’t Play in San Francisco Come 2018
In a move that shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, the Golden State Warriors have officially pushed back the target date for opening their proposed Mission Bay Arena and…
Art Deco Warehouse near Twitter on the Market with Plans
Plans to raze the Art Deco warehouse and body shop at 255-265 10th Street and build 50 residential units over parking for 50 cars and 1,000 square feet of new…
San Francisco Adopts Mission District Development Controls
Following five months of debate, San Francisco’s Planning Commission has unanimously adopted ‘Interim Controls’ for new market-rate housing, office and retail developments in the Mission District. And while originally drafted…
Massive Mid-Market/Tenderloin Development Closer to Reality
Shorenstein Residential’s proposal for a 304-unit building designed by Arquitectonica to rise up to 12-stories at Jones and Golden Gate Avenue, with a skinny twelve-story spur fronting Market Street, is…
Willie Mays Had a Hard Time Buying a House in San Francisco
Willie Mays, the legendary Giant, had a hard time buying a house in San Francisco. But it wasn’t for lack of funds. As recounted in San Francisco’s draft report intended…
Tendernob Rebuilding Rendered and Slated for Approval
The proposed five-story Tendernob building to rise up to 57-feet in height at 824 Hyde Street, with fifteen (15) apartments ranging in size from 440 to 605 square feet apiece,…
Mortgage Rates Drop on Market Weakness
Having slipped below 4 percent last week, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has dropped another 5 basis points to 3.92 percent as concern about a global slowdown…
Recognizing and Preserving San Francisco’s Diverse History
Recognizing that San Francisco “has historically given short shrift to communities of color,” the City’s Planning Department has just finished drafting a 300-page report “to assist City staff and commissioners,…
One of the Smallest Houses in San Francisco Fetches $665K
The sale of the two-level cottage at 554 46th Avenue, which sits on 644-square-foot lot behind two other homes which had shared a Sutro Heights parcel that has since been…