Benchmark Mortgage Rate Dips on China’s Market Chaos
With China’s stock market rout rattling the markets near and far, and a subsequent flight to quality driving the 10-year Treasury yield down, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year…
Condos Brewing across from Anchor Slated for Approval
Plans to raze the Moto Shop building at 540-552 De Haro Street, adjacent to the Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church and across the street from Anchor Brewing in Potrero…
Sexy Time?
Currently home to the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, which was established in 1976 and grew out of research in the 1960s which highlighted “a general lack of…
Futuristic East Bay Estate Fetches $20.5M
The modern 14,000 square-foot Berkeley/Oakland Hills mansion which sits atop a ridge at 6889 Devon Way and is visible from Highway 24 has just traded hands for $20.5 million having…
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50 Percent Price Cut for a One-Of-A-Kind Silicon Valley Home
On the market for $20 million in 2014, the ‘one-of-a-kind’ Woodside home at 6 Quail Meadows Drive was formally listed for $17.5 million early last year. Withdrawn from the MLS…
Oakland Tipped in 2015
Near the end of 2014 we outlined why Oakland was at a tipping point with respect to demand for office space and growth. As we wrote at the time: “In…
Affordable Hayes Valley Development Closer to Reality
The public hearing for the proposed six-story Hayes Valley development with 108 below-market-rate apartments to rise up to 50-feet in height at 455 Fell Street, upon San Francisco’s Central Freeway…
Market Street Institution Moving to Oakland
With plans for razing the iconic Flax Art & Design store at 1699 Market Street to make room for a nine-story building with 162 units of housing, 97 parking spaces…
The Separation of Church and Condos on Gough
The plans for the proposed eight-story building to rise on the southeast corner of Gough and Eddy, where the ornate St. Paulus Lutheran Church had stood for a century, have…
Short-Term Rental Scofflaw Aims to Establish a Mini-Hotel
Tagged for illegally renting the three one-bedroom flats at 40-44 Pleasant Street as short-term rentals in violation of San Francisco’s so-called “Airbnb law,” the owner of the Nob Hill building…