The Next Major Development Slated for Approval in SF
Plans to level the 41-foot-tall San Francisco Tennis Club at 645 5th Street and build up to 243 feet in height upon its 2.6-acre Central SoMa site could be approved…
Bay Area Home Sales and Median Price Are…Down
Following a trend which shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, while the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area increased a seasonally…
Ambitious Potrero Hill Infill Project has Traded Hands
As we outlined back in 2017: The 125-foot stretch of land between the Potrero Hill homes at 905 and 953 Kansas Street has never before been developed, perhaps because of…
Redesigned for Luxury and Put Back in Play
The underdeveloped lot at the corner of Cleveland Street and Park Boulevard in Oakland’s Cleveland Heights neighborhood hit the market in 2004 with permitted plans for a 25-unit building –…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Hits a 31-Month Low
As foreshadowed, the average rate for a 30-year mortgage dropped 11 basis points over the past week to 3.73 percent, which is now down 121 basis points (1.21 percentage points)…
Pending Home Sales Drop in the West but Tick Up Overall
Having dropped 1.5 percent in April, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, ticked up 1.1 percent in May…
Port Will Solicit Proposals for Contested Waterfront Lot and Piers
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected an appeal of the approved, but hotly contested, plans for a temporary Navigation Center to be constructed on the Port’s current parking lot…
High-End Loft Fetches 15 Percent Over Its 2015 Price
We’ve been intrigued by the truly high-end conversion of unit #102 at 355 Bryant Street since the 2,200-square-foot loft hit the market listed for $2.195 million, or roughly $1,000 per…
Index for Bay Area Home Values Ticks Up, Condos Down YOY
Having ticked up a downwardly revised 2.0 percent in March, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East…
Pace of New Home Sales in the U.S. Takes Another Hit
Having dropped a downwardly revised 3.7 percent in April, the pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. shed another 7.8 percent in May to a seasonally adjusted rate…