Art Deco Warehouse near Twitter on the Market with Plans
Plans to raze the Art Deco warehouse and body shop at 255-265 10th Street and build 50 residential units over parking for 50 cars and 1,000 square feet of new…
San Francisco Adopts Mission District Development Controls
Following five months of debate, San Francisco’s Planning Commission has unanimously adopted ‘Interim Controls’ for new market-rate housing, office and retail developments in the Mission District. And while originally drafted…
Massive Mid-Market/Tenderloin Development Closer to Reality
Shorenstein Residential’s proposal for a 304-unit building designed by Arquitectonica to rise up to 12-stories at Jones and Golden Gate Avenue, with a skinny twelve-story spur fronting Market Street, is…
Willie Mays Had a Hard Time Buying a House in San Francisco
Willie Mays, the legendary Giant, had a hard time buying a house in San Francisco. But it wasn’t for lack of funds. As recounted in San Francisco’s draft report intended…
Tendernob Rebuilding Rendered and Slated for Approval
The proposed five-story Tendernob building to rise up to 57-feet in height at 824 Hyde Street, with fifteen (15) apartments ranging in size from 440 to 605 square feet apiece,…
Mortgage Rates Drop on Market Weakness
Having slipped below 4 percent last week, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has dropped another 5 basis points to 3.92 percent as concern about a global slowdown…
Recognizing and Preserving San Francisco’s Diverse History
Recognizing that San Francisco “has historically given short shrift to communities of color,” the City’s Planning Department has just finished drafting a 300-page report “to assist City staff and commissioners,…
One of the Smallest Houses in San Francisco Fetches $665K
The sale of the two-level cottage at 554 46th Avenue, which sits on 644-square-foot lot behind two other homes which had shared a Sutro Heights parcel that has since been…
Government Moves to Identify Hidden Buyers of Luxury Homes
Concerned that secretive purchases of luxury real estate are being used to hide ill-gotten gains, the federal government will require title companies to discover and report the true identities of…
A Step Forward for 16 Condos sans Parking
Plans to demolish the single-story office building on the southwest corner of 7th and Bryant, which was built upon the site of a former gas in 1968, and construct a…