Fast-Tracked Renzo Piano Tower Slated for Approval
We weren’t kidding when we noted that the review process for the proposed Renzo Piano tower to rise up to 405 feet in height at 555 Howard Street had been…
Infamous Marin Home Now Listed for Nearly 50 Percent Less
Listed for an eye-popping $10.881 million in June, the asking price for the 4,372-square-foot Mill Valley home at 114 Inez Place, which was at the center of a neighborhood brawl…
New U.S. Home Sales and Inventory Tick Up
Having dropped a revised 7.0 percent in December, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ticked up 3.7 percent in January to a pace of…
Redevelopment of AltSchool Site Closer to Reality
As we first reported at the end of 2015: Plans to raze the one-story building at 1245 Folsom Street, which is currently occupied by AltSchool, have been submitted to the…
Mortgage Rates Hold, Probability of a Hike in May
Having jumped 62 basis points over the past four months to 4.16 percent today, which is 54 basis points above the 3.62 rate in place at the same time last…
Big and Bigger Plans for an Oakland Tower and Terrace in the Sky
In addition to plans for infilling Jack London Square, the CIM Group is pushing forward with two options for a new Uptown Oakland tower to rise on the current parking…
The New Plans to Infill Jack London Square
The grand plan for redeveloping Oakland’s Jack London Square was approved back in 2004 and the first phase of development was completed in 2008. And while the second phase of…
Cesar Chavez Project Site on the Market at a Near-Record Price
Approved for a 24-unit development to rise up to six stories in height on the Mission District site, with 20 two-bedrooms and 4 one-bedrooms over a 761 square foot retail…
Existing Home Sales in the U.S. Start 2017 at a 10-Year High
Having hit a ten-year high in 2016, the pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. ticked up 3.3 percent in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.69 million…
Benchmarking San Francisco versus Sixteen Peer Cities
The City of San Francisco has just completed benchmarking itself versus sixteen (16) peer cities in the areas of demographics, livability, public safety, transportation and finance. The peer cities against…