Bay Area Home Sales Dropped Nearly 10% in December, More in SF
The estimated number of Bay Area single-family homes and condos that traded hands this past December (7,136) was 9.1 percent lower than in December 2015, having dropped 4.4 percent from…
A Case Study in Mission District Development versus Displacement
With the controversial plan for preserving San Francisco’s Mission District one step closer to adoption, a real world example of development versus potential displacement, and existing rent-controlled versus new market-rate…
Bay Area House Values Slip, Condos Inch Up
Having inched up in October, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay and Peninsula…
Raiders Move Closer to Reality without Casino Magnate’s Money
As we foreshadowed when the Oakland Raiders formally filed their application to move the franchise to Las Vegas two weeks ago, Goldman Sachs was positioned to fund any financing gap…
Plan to Preserve the Mission District Revealed
The draft plan to retain low to moderate income residents and community-serving businesses, artists and nonprofits in San Francisco’s Mission District has just been released for public review. The Mission…
Pending U.S. Home Sales Ticked up at the End of 2016
Having dropped 2.5 percent in November to its second lowest level of the year, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes an average level…
Punk Rocker’s Noe Valley Pad on the Market for $3.6 Million
It’s probably not the pad you envisioned for a punk rocker, but the Noe Valley home at 665 29th Street, which is owned by Eric Melvin, the lead guitarist for…
The Art to Adorn Van Ness
The construction of the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project that’s now underway includes a public art component which the Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo has been commissioned to fulfill.…
Contractor Caught Demolishing a Historic Facade
Purchased by a local contractor for $1.282 million in March of 2012, plans to allow the construction of a new garage, a new entry stair and “minor façade alterations” to…
Mortgage Rates Move up along with the Odds of a June Hike
Ending a three-week slide, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up 10 basis points over the past week to 4.19 percent and is now running 40 basis…