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…
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…
Pacific Heights Penthouse Sale Smashes SF Real Estate Records
The 10th floor of the überexclusive Pacific Heights building at 2006 Washington Street has traded hands in a hush-hush deal and at a price point never before seen in San…
Van Ness Corridor Rising: Planning For Another Tower
The owners of the five-story Opal Hotel at Van Ness and Geary are working on plans to raze the two-story “Motel Opal” addition, which sits behind the hotel along Geary,…
Princess Diaries Firehouse Sells For $1.85 Million
Originally listed for $2.6 million, the Excelsior District firehouse at 724 Brazil Avenue which served as the setting for “Mia’s house” in the Princess Diaries has sold for $1,850,000, a…
Draft Design For Building To Replace Historic Market Street Bar
As we first reported earlier this week, a new set of plans have been submitted to Planning for a proposed five-story residential building to rise across the Market Street site…
Tech Space On Former Cemetery And UCSF Campus Site?
Up until the early 1940s, the parcel upon which UCSF’s current 10-acre Laurel Heights campus was built was part of the Laurel Hill Cemetery. Transferred to the San Francisco Unified…
The Priciest Apartment in San Francisco at $3,165 Per Square Foot
Referenced by a plugged-in reader last week, while the 3,318-square-foot unit #1601 within The Royal Towers at 1750 Taylor Street isn’t listed on the MLS, it is for sale and…
Price Cut For The Original Top Chef Pad
The very first ‘Top Chef’ home, in which the show’s Season 1 contenders lived while competing in San Francisco, the five-bedroom pad at 3159 Baker Street was listed for rent…
One Oak’s Iconic Skylounge And “Cuts” Up Close
High above the proposed plaza to transform the intersection of Market and Van Ness, the “skylounge” on the 28th floor of the proposed One Oak tower would offer some rather…