Mortgage Rates Drop, Nearing 22-Month Lows
Mortgage rates have dropped for the second week in a row and the average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage is down to 3.69 percent, within 10 basis point of…
420-Unit Building At Hayes And Van Ness Ready For Review/Vote
The Emerald Fund’s proposed 420-unit building to rise up to 13-stories along Hayes, stretching from Van Ness Avenue to Polk Street, shouldn’t come as a surprise to any plugged-in readers…
Challenge Of Waterfront Height Limit Measure Survives First Ruling
The State’s legal challenge of San Francisco’s Proposition B, the voter-approved “No Wall on the Waterfront” measure which maintains existing height limits for waterfront property under the control of the…
Zynga Founder Delists Mansion, Plans To Gut And Expand
The listing for the nearly 12,000-square-foot Pacific Heights pad at 2950 Pacific Avenue, which Mark and Alison Pincus, the respective co-founders of Zynga and One Kings Lane, purchased for $16…
Long-Shuttered Gas Station Site Plan: Condos And Lots Of Parking
Pacific Coast Homes, a subsidiary of Chevron Land & Development, has secured an option to purchase the long-shuttered Chevron station at the corner of Bay and Buchanan from Chevron U.S.A.…
More Inner Mission Infill: The 1863 Mission Street Project
A sister project to the proposed development on the southeast corner of Mission and 14th Streets, the plans for a 37-unit building to rise on the undeveloped through lot at…
Inventory Of Homes For Sale In San Francisco Ticking Up
With new listings in San Francisco having outpaced sales over the past six weeks, the overall inventory of homes for sale in San Francisco is currently running 8 percent higher…
Unexpected Architecture And Now Listed For $2.5M Less
Described as “farm contemporary architecture” by the agent, but with modernist and organic elements throughout, the 8,660-square-foot home at 6 Quail Meadows Drive in Woodside has just been listed for…
Big Vote For Beer Store Adjacent Micro-Units This Week
The proposed David Baker + Partners designed “micro-unit” building to rise up to six stories at 1178 Folsom Street, adjacent to the City Beer Store building at 1168 Folsom, is…
Pace Of New Home Sales In The U.S. Gains, Inventory Slips
Having slipped a nominal 0.2 percent in January, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. jumped 7.8 percent in February to an annual rate of…