Refined Design for Taller Oakland Tower
With an extra 15 feet of height and an additional 19 units approved last month, the final design review for the now 452-unit tower approved to rise up to 395…
Index for Bay Area Home Values Ticks Up, Led by the Middle Again
Having ticked up a percent in April, 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…
Former Yahoo Exec’s Perch Fetches 54 Percent of Original Price
Dubbed “The Perch,” the nearly 8-acre Silicon Valley estate owned by Yahoo’s former Chief Marketing Officer in Woodside, which includes over 7,000 square feet of finished space, with a four-bedroom…
Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Inch up while Inventory Climbs
Having slipped 0.5 percent in May, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, inched up 0.9 percent in June…
One-Bedroom at The Brannan Nearly Fetches its 2015 Price
Purchased for $975,000 in October of 2015, the“spacious and bright” unit #7G at 229 Brannan Street, a 884-square-foot one-bedroom with one and one-half baths, a private terrace and city views…
Supervisors Aim to Cement Support for Expansion of Rent Control
If adopted by voters in November, California Proposition 10 would overturn the state’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act which prevents rent control from applying to single-family homes, condos or any multifamily…
Timing and Cost of Affordable Family Housing to Rise in Mission Bay
As we first reported earlier this year: As designed by Paulett Taggart Architects and Studio Vara for Mercy Housing, the proposed development to rise up to 74 feet in height,…
Plans to Transform Shuttered Alexandria Theater Progress
As we first reported at the end of 2016: With the redevelopment of the former parking lot parcel behind the dilapidated Alexandria Theater at 5400 Geary Boulevard underway, new plans…
Median Price Holds but Bay Area Home Sales Drop to a 4-Year Low
The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area totaled 8,337 in June, a 9.2 percent drop in sales on a year-over-year basis and…
Limited Plans for Building Up San Bruno Avenue
Plans for a four building development to rise along San Bruno Avenue, between Mansell and Ward on the northern border of Visitacion Valley, have been drawn. But a historic storybook…