Redevelopment of Historic Central SoMa Site Closer to Reality
While Planning had balked at the original plans for the redevelopment of the historic Central SoMa Tres (now Merhado) building at 130 Townsend Street and the parking lot at 100…
Apples-to-Apples Versus Index for a Coveted One-Bedroom
Purchased for $1.025 million in June of 2015, the “coveted corner one-bedroom” unit #807 in the One Rincon Hill tower at 425 1st Street returned to the market priced at…
Historic Neighborhood Substation at Risk of a Collapse
Funds that were earmarked for the redevelopment of the long abandoned Market Street Railway substation on the southwest corner of Fillmore and Turk were diverted to a (failed) bailout of…
COVID Hospitalizations in S.F. Surpass First Wave High [UPDATED]
While the Covid-19 case rate in San Francisco has dropped from a rolling average of over 270 new cases per day on August 2 to an average of 230 new…
Haight Street Development Redesigned, Slated for Approval
In the works since 2016, as we first reported at the time, refined plans for redeveloping the former Lee’s Meat and Popular Market site at 478-482 Haight Street could be…
Mortgage Rates Inch Up from Record Lows
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched up 10 basis points (0.10 percentage points) over the past week to 2.87 percent, which is still 9 basis points lower…
Asking Rents Tick Up in Oakland, But…
As projected, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in Oakland has ticked up around 2 percent over the past two months to around $2,340 a month, representing a…
Option to Extend Contested Navigation Center Will Be Exercised
Having reduced the number of unsheltered individuals in the Outreach Zone around the hotly contested Embarcadeo Navigation Center site, adjacent to the Watermark and across from Piers 30-32 on a…
Big(ish) Plans for Prime Hillside Site Closer to Reality
As we originally outlined last year, while plans for a 24-unit development to rise up to 40 feet in height along Diamond Street, on the hillside overlooking Noe Valley, between…
Listings Down in San Francisco, Sales Too
With new listing activity in San Francisco having dropped over 30 percent on a year-over-year basis over the past six weeks, the net number of homes for sale across the…