New Condo Sales Tick up in SF on the Heels of a Price Drop
Having taken a hit in February, the Mark Company’s pricing index for new condos in San Francisco inched up 0.5 percent in March but is still running 8.8 percent lower…
Asking Rents Tick up in San Francisco, Slip in Oakland
Having ended last year lower than where they started, asking rents for apartments in San Francisco have ticked up around 3 percent since the beginning of the year, roughly half…
Bottom Third of Bay Area Home Values Just Hit Pre-Recession High
Having inched up 0.4 percent in January, 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…
Pace of New Home Sales above Average in the U.S., Jumps out West
Having ticked up an upwardly revised 3.6 percent in February, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ticked up another 4.0 percent in March to…
Revised Plans for Supersized Bart-Adjacent Project Sans Parking
Facing pushback from Oakland’s Planning Department with respect to the “monotonous and bulky massing” of the proposed 1,032-unit “Hub” development to rise up to 23 stories in height upon the…
Get Ready to Rumble, Not Just Shake, If Approved
As we first reported at the beginning of the year, and formally confirmed last week, Shake Shack is planning to convert the shuttered Real Food Company building on the southeast…
Proposed Mission District Development Newly Rendered
As we first reported last month and has been newly rendered below: Plans to level the Mission District garage at 1721 15th Street, between Little Star Pizza and The Monastery,…
Existing Home Sales in the U.S. Tick up but Slip Year-Over-Year
Having gained 3.0 percent in February, the pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. inched up another 1.1 percent in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.60 million…
SF’s First Whole Foods 365 Closer to Reality
As we first reported a couple weeks ago, plans to convert the shuttered Lombardi Sports building at 1600 Jackson Street, at the corner of Polk, into San Francisco’s first Whole…
The Economics of a Rincon Hill Condo and Reality Check Redux
As we originally outlined back in the third quarter of 2015: Purchased for $700,000 in 2012, or roughly $1,150 per square foot, the one-bedroom One Rincon Hill condo #4404 was…