More Height Coming in the New Year
While the height of the new Salesforce/Transbay Tower rising at 415 Mission Street has already caught plenty of people by surprise, particularly when unexpectedly seen from afar, keep in mind…
Supersized North Oakland Development Closer to Reality
The refined designs for a 25-story tower to rise up to 260 feet in height at 532 Turquoise Street, across from the MacArthur BART Station in North Oakland, will be…
Proposed Development in San Francisco Drops to a Four-Year Low
With two days left in 2016, the preliminary plans for 79 major developments have been submitted to San Francisco’s Planning Department since the beginning of the year. And as we…
Timing for Massive Flower Mart Project and an Interim Parking Lot
Having served as a fleet parking lot and storage facility for AT&T/Pacific Bell service vehicles since the 1970’s, the corner parcel at 610 Brannan Street was sold to Kilroy Realty…
UCSF Getting Ready to Break New Ground in Mission Bay
Having purchased Mission Bay Blocks 33 and 34, which are across the street from UCSF’s Mission Bay Medical Center and adjacent to the Warriors Arena site, from Salesforce.com last year,…
Pending U.S. Home Sales Drop to Lowest Level in Nearly a Year
Having eked out a 0.1 percent gain in October, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes an average level of activity, dropped 2.5 percent…
2016 Ending with Bay Area House Values at a Record High
Having slipped in September, the Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay and Peninsula – inched up…
Redevelopment of Prominent Parking Lot Parcel Delayed
In the works since the year 2000, plans for a 19-story residential building, with 103 condos over a stacked garage for 28 cars and 900 square feet of retail space…
Massive Pier 70 Project Reaches a Major Milestone
Having secured voter approval for increased building heights across the 28-acre-core of the Pier 70 site back in 2014, the Environmental Planning for Forest City’s massive project was soon underway.…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Hits a 32-Month High
As we foreshadowed within a basis point, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage jumped another 14 basis points over the past week to 4.30 percent, the highest average…