Top 5 Reasons For Renting, And Factors For Buying A Home
Renting houses is becoming much more popular. This may be because the process is reasonably easier than purchasing a house, and having to access a loan and then pay off…
Take 2.0 For Mission District Development Disapproved In 2010
The plans to raze the existing one-story warehouse on the northwest corner of 15th and Shotwell and build a five-story building with 23 condos on the Mission District lot are…
Central SoMa Subway Site Could Sprout A Tower Too
The former gas station at Folsom and Fourth is long-gone and construction is well underway for the Yerba Buena/Moscone Station of San Francisco’s future Central Subway. But that’s not all…
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Designs For Six Stories At Brannan And Fourth
The designs for the proposed six-story office building to “rise” at 501-505 Brannan Street will be presented to San Francisco’s Planning Commission for approval next week. As we wrote about…
Calling All ‘Makers’ With $14M To Spare
Purchased for $13.5 million in 2005 when listed for $14 million, the “modern high-tech home” at 240 Cinnabar Road sits upon 3 acres of land in the hills of Woodside,…
Bayview Opening Up To Microbreweries
Citing “an unusually large number of establishments dispensing alcoholic beverages, including beer and wine, for both on-site and off-site consumption in the Bayview area,” the existence of which “appears to…
Caltrain Report Confirms Ballooning Budget And Project Delays
As we first reported last month: Originally expected to cost $1.5 billion and be operational in 2019, the budget to electrify Caltrain and install a new signaling system has be…
Mortgage Rates Back Below 4 Percent, Lowest Since Mid-2013
Having ticked up to just over 4 percent last month, the average rate for a conforming 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has dropped to 3.89 percent, the lowest level since May 2013…
Noe Valley Compound Gains 43% In Four Years
Purchased for $1,610,000 in 2011 following a down to the studs renovation and expansion, the seven-bedroom compound at 676 San Jose Avenue returned to the market this past September listed…
Tech Moguls, Oligarchs, And Telegraph Hill Dwellers Take Note
Tech moguls and foreign oligarchs take note: San Francisco’s Supervisors have upheld the necessary approvals for three modern townhomes to rise on upon the mostly vacant lot at 115 Telegraph…