Crown Jewel of Piedmont Fetches $5.225 Million
Having hit the market listed as “the crown jewel of Piedmont” for $7.25 million last year, the restored 5,700-square-foot Edwardian on a manicured half-acre lot at 117 Sheridan Avenue has…
Plans to Double the Density of Development on Folsom
With the plans for a modern eight-story building to rise on the adjacent 980 Folsom Street parcel having been approved earlier this month, we now have the preliminary plans for…
Big and Even Bigger Plans for 4.5-Star Mission District Site
Plans to level the 4.5-star San Francisco Auto Works shop at 1021 Valencia Street are in the works. And as envisioned, up to 24 residential units over a ground floor…
Mortgage Rates Inch up, Odds of a Hike over 98 Percent
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has ticked up 4 basis points over the past two weeks to 3.94 percent, which is 47 basis points above the 3.47…
Index for Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Hits 31-Month Low
The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, held at a downwardly revised 106.0 from August to September, which is…
Whole Foods Inks a Lease for Shuttered Best Buy Site, But…
It’s true, Whole Foods has inked a lease for the recently shuttered Best Buy location in the City Center mall at Geary and Masonic. But a formal application to allow…
Plans to Move Historic Victorian and Convert Mortuary Proceed
The formal application to add a fourth story and rear addition to the Bryant Mortuary at 635 Fulton Street and convert the historic Hayes Valley structure into a residential building…
New Home Sales in the U.S. Jump with Inventory at an 8-Year High
Having dropped 9.4 percent over the previous two months, the seasonally adjusted rate of new single-family home sales in the U.S. jumped 18.9 percent in September to an annual rate…
SF and Oakland Rents Down, Relative Premium Up
Following the trend we first noticed forming twelve months ago, asking rents for apartments in San Francisco and Oakland have dropped over the past year. In fact, based on a…
Bonus Height Building Slated for Approval in Berkeley
As proposed and slated for approval from Berkeley’s Zoning Adjustments Board on Thursday, October 26, the two single-story buildings on a single parcel at 1717 University Avenue will be razed…