Benchmark Mortgage Rate Drops, Odds of an Easing Up
Having ticked up 6 basis points last week, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has since dropped 10 basis points to 4.31 percent, which is 13 basis points…
Ground for 157 Affordable Apartments Will Be Broken Next Week
With financing having been secured and San Francisco’s first Navigation Center, which had temporarily occupied the former Phoenix Continuation High School site, having been shuttered/moved, the ground for 157 below…
Pace and Price of New Home Sales in the U.S. Start 2019 Down
While 2018 ended with the total number of new single-family home sales across the U.S. having ticked up 1.5 percent versus the year before, the pace of new sales was…
Home of the Largest Sex Club in SF on the Market in SoMa
Hidden behind a rather nondescript industrial façade at 933 Harrison Street, the “largest sex club in San Francisco,” the 6,000-square-foot Blow Buddies club, has operated for nearly 30 years. And…
Nearly New Two-Bedroom Fetches 3 Percent over its 2014 Price
Purchased as new for $1,016,000, or roughly $963 per square foot, back in March of 2014, the “primely” located two-bedroom, two-bath unit #415 at 8 Buchanan Street (a.k.a. Linea) returned…
Positioning to Raise the Roof in the Middle of Hayes Valley
The little four-unit building at 630 Octavia Street and its adjacent parcel, which is currently used as a parking lot, recently traded hands for what would appear to be a…
Plan to Stabilize the Sinking Millennium Tower Closer to Reality
With the initial round of testing having proven successful, the plans to permanently stabilize the sinking Millennium Tower by adding a series of 52 new piles around the tower’s perimeter…
Massive Berkeley Mansion Now Listed at a Loss
Designed by John Hudson Thomas and built for John Hopkins Spring, a real estate developer, in 1914, the 12,000-square-foot Spring Mansion which sits at 1960 San Antonio Avenue in the…
Number of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Inches Up
With the number of homes which were newly listed for sale in San Francisco over the past two weeks roughly matching the number of new purchase contracts that were written,…
Alternative Designs for Rejected Oakland Tower Revealed
With Oakland’s Planning Commission having formally rejected the plans for a proposed 460-foot-tall, and seemingly split, tower to rise at 1261 Harrison Street, on the historic King Block in Downtown…