Bernal Home Sells for 24% below Touted Appraisal
Purchased for $815,000 in March of 2015, the then 912-square-foot, one-bedroom Bernal Heights house at 519 Nevada Street was taken down to the studs, expanded, remodeled and returned to the…
San Francisco Home Sales Drop to a Five-Year Low
The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands in San Francisco dropped to a five-year low of 308 in February. That’s down 4 percent from a downwardly revised…
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$300K Price Cut for Punk Rocker’s Noe Valley Pad
Purchased as a 1,500-square-foot Noe Valley home for $750,000 in 2003, Eric Melvin, the lead guitarist for NOFX, doubled the living space at 665 29th Street, remodeled the home’s rear…
A Mixed Employment Report for SF and around the Bay
Having dropped the most in nearly a decade at the beginning of the year, the number of people living in San Francisco with a job ticked up by 1,400 last…
Big Plans for San Francisco’s Temporary Transbay Terminal Site
The Transbay District block bounded by Howard, Beale, Folsom and Main – which is currently the site of San Francisco’s Temporary Transbay Terminal – will be divided into three upon…
Foreclosed upon at the Palms and Back under $1K per Foot
Purchased for $575,000 ($832 per square foot) in 2006, the buyer of the one-bedroom unit #533 at the Palms (555 4th Street) was in default with over $270,000 in past…
Existing Home Sales Slip in the U.S.
Having ticked up 3.3 percent in January, the pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. dropped 3.7 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.48 million transactions.…
New Timing for Twisty Transbay Tower
While the Transbay District site for the twisty 400-foot-tall “Bay Tower” designed by Jeanne Gang to rise at 160 Folsom Street, on the northwest corner of Folsom and Spear, has…
Pre-2006 Pricing for Villa Tara in Tiburon
Purchased for $7.6 million in early 2006, the 6,500-square-foot “Villa Tara” at 12 Tara Hill Road in Tiburon returned to the market listed for $10.9 million in 2015. Reduced to…
Uber Slows its Roll in Oakland, Doubles Down in San Francisco
With Uptown Station’s opening already pushed back to the second quarter of 2018 due to design changes, Uber is now looking to sublet up to half of the 300,000 square…