Waylaid Hayes Valley Grocery Hopes to Open in 2018
Having ground to a halt last year, waylaid by the late delivery of its custom designed glass skin, construction on the 139 new Hayes Valley condos at 555 Fulton Street…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Drops along with Odds of a Hike
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage slipped another 4 basis points over the past week to 3.82 percent which is another new low for the year. At the…
Pending U.S. Home Sales Slip, Mixed Messages in the West
While still above average, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes an average level of activity, was teetering on the edge of a year-over-year…
Bay Area Home Sales Drop to a Six-Year Low, Median Price Slips
While Bay Area home sales typically drop around 6 percent from June to July with normal seasonality in play, the sale volume dropped over 17 percent in 2017, from 9,114…
Slaughterhouse Sets Its Sights on San Francisco
The operators of East Oakland’s Saba Live Poultry, a national chain which sells live and freshly slaughtered chickens and livestock from Halal-certified facilities, is planning to open an outpost in…
Timing for San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center Slips
Having already fallen a couple months behind schedule as of earlier this year, the forecasted timing to reach the “substantial completion” of construction for San Francisco’s $2.3 billion Transbay Transit…
Index for Bay Area Home Values Hits an All Time High
Having gained an upwardly revised 1.0 percent in May, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay,…
Restoration Hardware Residence Finally Fetches $7.55 Million
The sale of the first (and perhaps last) “Restoration Hardware Residence” at 347 South Crane Avenue in St. Helena has closed escrow with a $7.55 million contract price. Purchased by…
Chicken John’s Plan to Save Chez Poulez
Having survived a mortgage scare back in 2009, Chicken John Rinaldi was able to maintain possession of his Mission District “Chez Poulet” at 3359 Cesar Chavez Street. And while Chez…
Major Hotel Expansion Redesigned and Closer to Reality
While the mass of the proposed four-story addition to rise upon the parking lot of the Fisherman’s Wharf Holiday Inn at 1300 Columbus Avenue hasn’t really changed, its façade has…