Plans for Embattled Lombard Street Site Closer to Reality
In the works since 2014, as we first reported at the time, the public hearing for the proposed four-story development to rise across the former Blockbuster parcel at 2444 Lombard…
Angling for a Bidding War to Fetch a 2015 Price
Listed for $1.17 million, or roughly $768 per square foot, in January 2015, the ClockTower loft unit #C322 at 461 2nd Street quickly sold for an “over asking!” price of…
Bigger Plans for Developing Shuttered Haight Street Site
As we first reported last year, plans to raze the former Lee’s Meat and Popular Market building at 478-482 Haight Street, adjacent to the new Nickies, and develop a new…
Indexes for Bay Area Home Values Inch Up
Having inched up 0.7 percent in June, 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…
Plans for Six Stories on Seventh as Proposed
Plans to level the former industrial building turned parking garage at 230 7th Street and construct a new six-story building upon the Western SoMa site are taking shape. The proposed…
Index for Pending U.S. Home Sales Drops, Forecast Downgraded
Having slipped in July, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, dropped 2.6 percent in August to 106.3 which…
Liebermann Designed Berkeley Hills Pad Listed for $3.8 Million
A major addition by the late Daniel Liebermann transformed this former redwood cottage, which sits on two secluded parcels totaling 1.4 acres up in the Berkeley Hills at 200 Panoramic…
New Home Sales in the U.S. Slip despite More Inventory
Having dropped an upwardly revised 5.6 percent in July, the seasonally adjusted rate of new single-family home sales in the U.S. slipped another 3.4 percent in August to an annual…
Beloved Bookstore’s Days Appear to Be Numbered
After nearly 40 years in business, the Castro’s (second to) last remaining bookstore, Aardvark Books, appears to be done as the one-story building it occupies at 227 Church Street has…
San Francisco Home Sales Take a Hit
While the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands in San Francisco proper only dropped 0.8 percent from 485 in July to 481 in August, the sales volume…