The Story behind This $350K Over Asking Sale in West Oakland
Built as a duplex in the early 1900s, the two-story West Oakland building at 960-962 16th Street was subsequently converted into the House of Prayer Church of God with a…
Plans to Raise the Roof and New Rentals on Mission Closer to Reality
With the master tenant of the former Anna’s Linens shop at 2610 Mission Street having been paid to forfeit the remaining 30 years on a 99-year lease, plans to renovate…
Boutique Urban Townhome Project Pushing Forward
With the ground floor space of the little two-story office building at 220 Battery Street, which was to become a 7-Eleven, having been renovated and re-opened as Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches,…
Shuttered Oakland Chicken Shack Back on the Market for $2 Million
The shuttered Church’s Chicken shack at 345 East 18th Street, which is two blocks from the southeastern shore of Oakland’s Lake Merritt, is back on the market with a $1,999,999…
Sub-2015 Pricing in South Beach
Purchased as new for $952,000, or roughly $1,213 per square foot, in November 2015, the 785-square-foot, one-bedroom condo #403 at 72 Townsend Street, a “one-of-a-kind luxury mid-rise” building in the…
Office Rents in San Francisco Slip, Vacancy Rate Inches Up
Having inched up 0.8 percent at the end of 2016 to an all-time high of $69.77 per square foot per year, the asking rent for office space in San Francisco…
Over Asking but a Real $550K Loss at the Infinity
Listed as an “Ultra Rare Super Sized Home at the Infinity” for $2.4 million in early 2015, the two-bedroom unit #5C at 301 Main Street sold for $2.3 million, or…
Positioning San Francisco’s Piers for a Luxury Hotel and Tech Space
With the Port of San Francisco facing a multi-billion dollar challenge with respect to rehabilitating, renovating and re-purposing the city’s piers and over 100 acres of waterfront open space, a…
$10 Million Deal for SoMa Park Land Ready for Board’s Approval
Speaking of public open spaces, parks and land use in SoMa, San Francisco’s Department of Real Estate has negotiated a $9.725 million purchase price for five adjacent buildings at 11th…
Court of Appeal Rules That Children Aren’t Tenants
Reversing a lower court decision, California’s First District Court of Appeal has ruled that minors living in a rental unit with a guardian are “occupants” but not “tenants,” an important…