Development to Replace Rincon Hill Gas Station Redesigned
Facing pushback from the development team behind Jasper, which recently rose on the 45 Lansing Street parcel next door, as well as the 50 Lansing Street Homeowners Association (which raised…
Polk Street Holdout Home Poised for Redevelopment
Built in 1914, the little single-family home at 2815 Polk Street has been boarded up for years, having been owned by an out of towner and long a target for…
East Bay Ghiradelli Mansion Now Listed for a Million Less
Purchased for $4 million in late 2012, the 6,500-square-foot Piedmont mansion at 636 Highland Avenue, which was built for the Ghirardelli family in the early 1900’s, at which time the…
All-Cash Buyers of Luxury Homes in San Francisco to Be Identified
Concerned that secretive purchases of luxury real estate are being used to hide ill-gotten gains, the federal government launched a test program earlier this year to discover the true identities…
Revised Designs for Transforming Potrero’s East Slope
As a condition of its approval last December, the design of the proposed 251-unit market rate development to transform Potrero Hill’s East Slope known as 1395 22nd Street was to…
The Money Behind That Eye-Popping $13M Sale in Pacific Heights
It’s true. The eye-popping sale of 2755 Fillmore Street for $13.25 million last week involved a Chinese couple. But Mr. and Mrs. Li were the sellers exiting the market, not…
Hayes Valley Development Grinds to a Halt, Here’s Why
Speaking of new developments in Hayes Valley, if it feels like construction on the 139 condos and grocery store space at 555 Fulton Street has ground to a halt, you’re…
Pending U.S. Home Sales Eke out a Nominal Gain, Drop in the West
Having suddenly dropped 3.7 percent in May, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes an average level of activity, eked out a nominal 0.2…
New Construction Price Cuts in Hayes Valley
With the sales office having been open since March and contracts for roughly 60 percent of the 61 condominiums that are finishing up construction at 388 Fulton Street having been…
Indexes for Bay Area Home Values Stall, Year-Over-Year Gains Slide
Having hit an all-time high in April and surpassing the previous cycle peak recorded in May of 2006 by 4.1 percent, the Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the…