Plans for Building up MacArthur Boulevard Even Higher Than Zoned
The days are numbered for the MacArthur Carwash and tire shop at the corner of MacArthur and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland, as the corner site traded hands…
Bay Area Home Sales Slip but Edge Up in Napa and San Francisco
While the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the Bay Area ticked 8 percent from May to June, which is typical for this time of the…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Ticks Up
Having dipped to within 10 basis points of an all-time low, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up 4 basis points to 3.45 percent over the past…
Pace of U.S. Home Sales at a Nine-Year High, Price Sets a Record
The seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. ticked up 1.1 percent to an annual rate of 5.57 million sales in June, the highest annual pace since February…
New Condo Sales in San Francisco down over 30 Percent in 2016
We’ve compiled the monthly sales data for new condominiums in San Francisco over the past two years. While it’s not an aggregate statistic which the sales and marketing companies release,…
Potrero Hill Dorm Development Closer to Reality
Plans to levels the one-story warehouse building on the northeast corner of Arkansas and 17th Streets and develop a four-story dorm for students enrolled at the California College of the…
East Bay Office Market Cause for Concern?
While not specifically quantified, the volume of office tenants in San Francisco seeking new space in the East Bay “dropped significantly” over the past quarter, according to an accounting by…
Russian Hill Platinum House Price Reduced $1.75 Million
Listed for $11.25 million, or just over $2,000 per square foot, two months ago, the asking price for the designer Russian Hill home at 1209 Filbert Street, which is LEED…
Legislation to Allow New In-Law Units throughout San Francisco
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is slated to approve legislation which will allow more in-law units to be added to existing buildings throughout San Francisco. And the bargaining chip ballot…
A Hacked Up Laurel Heights Home Hits the Market for $1.2M
The former San Francisco home and studio space of Howard Hack, the distinguished local artist who passed away last year, the two-unit Laurel Heights building at 54-56 Cook Street has…