Thwarted by Neighbors, Noe Home Returns sans Addition
With plans to raise, renovate and expand the existing 2,300-square-foot Noe Valley home at 437 Hoffman Avenue having been drafted, the property traded hands for $1.85 million in 2014. While…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Holds along with Odds of a Rate Hike
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage held at 4.55 percent over the past week but remains 50 basis points above the 4.05 percent rate in place at the…
Modern Mount Olympus Development Closer to Reality
Plans for a modern 10-unit development to effectively rise on the northwest corner of 17th and Roosevelt, below the summit of San Francisco’s Mount Olympus on the southern border of…
A near Record-Setting Sunnyside Sale
Purchased as a 1,300-square-foot house, with two bedrooms and two baths, for $760,000 in October of 2007, the Sunnyside home at 643 Mangels Avenue, just below Miraloma and to the…
Now Seeking a Long-Term Tenant for This Historic Garage
As we first reported last year: While plans to convert the Mission District garage at 3140-3150 16th Street into a massive 20,000-square-foot restaurant and event space dubbed “The Albion on…
The Plea to Save a Mission District Dollar Store
Having already been redesigned to look less upscale and eliminate its garage, the proposed redevelopment of the “One $ Store” parcel on the southwest corner of Mission and 17th Streets,…
Number of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Is on the Rise
Driven in part by a pronounced slowdown in sales activity since the end of last year, the number of single-family homes and condos actively listed for sale in San Francisco…
Plans for Stonestown Galleria Redevelopment Formalized
As we first reported early last year, Macy’s was in contract to sell its 280,000-square-foot Stonestown Galleria location, which opened in 1952, to General Growth Properties, the terms of which…
Target Opening Day for the Salesforce / Transbay Transit Center Set
With little slippage in the expected completion date for San Francisco’s Transbay/Salesforce Transit Center over the past month, the target opening date for the new center and its 5.4-acre rooftop…
Waylaid Rincon Hill Development Take Two (And Three)
As we first reported in early March, having foreshadowed its revival back in 2015: Approved for development back in 2009 but subsequently waylaid by a successful appeal to San Francisco’s…