Proposed Ballet School Tower Complex Closer to Reality
While its overall height and envelope remain the same, one floor has been eliminated from the proposed 250-foot-tall Hub District tower and podium to rise at the intersection of Otis,…
Mortgage Rates Rise, Largest YOY Increase since 2014
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up another 6 basis points over the past week to 4.6 percent, which is 82 basis points above its mark at…
Plans for San Francisco’s Next Target Slated for Approval
Plans to convert the former Sports Authority building at 1690 Folsom Street into a full-service Target could be approved by San Francisco’s Planning Commission on October 4. Once again, the…
Tech Mogul’s Silicon Valley Lair Now Listed for $38 Million Less
Having hit the market with a bit of fanfare and an $88 million price tag back in 2015, the 21,400-square-foot Los Altos Hills home at 27500 La Vida Real was…
Path for Trains to Reach SF’s New Transit Center Has Been Picked
As we expected and first foreshadowed earlier this year, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority has officially adopted the Pennsylvania Avenue Alignment as the preferred path by which trains should…
Potential Adoption of Ambitious Central SoMa Plan Pushed Back
With San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors having just voted to continue their hearing of a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) based appeal of the City’s plan to mitigate the projected…
Approved Renzo Piano Tower Nearly Permitted to Rise
While the approval process for a 36-story tower designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, in collaboration with Mark Cavagnero Associates, to rise up to 405-feet in height at 555 Howard…
Refined Plans for a Designer Mega-Mansion in San Francisco
Purchased by Mark and Alison Pincus for $16 million in 2012, the nearly 12,000-square-foot Pacific Heights pad at 2950 Pacific Avenue, the rear facade of which is pictured above, returned…
Inventory of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Jumps
In a move which shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, the number of homes actively listed for sale in the San Francisco (765) jumped 39 percent over the past…
Plans for Infilling a Shuttered Service Station Site on Shattuck
Plans to level the shuttered East Bay Smog Center building on the northwest corner of Shattuck and 65th Street, between Telegraph Avenue and Adeline Street in Bushrod, across from the…