One Rincon Hill Year-Over-Year (And Roughly 95 Percent Sold)
As a reader wrote this past November: “Anyone see that #4107 sold on April 30th of this year for $830,000 and now is listed again at $865,000?” Said resale of…
Plans To Restore The Landmark Nightingale House At 201 Buchanan
As plugged-in people know, the Landmark Nightingale House at 201 Buchanan sold for $1,536,000 last year, down from $1,605,000 in 2007. In front of San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Commission this…
Minor’s “Abandoned” Mansion At 3800 Washington
While it’s looking a lot better today than it did in 1906, as a plugged-in reader notes (and following an anonymous complaint a year ago), Halsey Minor’s Le Petit Trianon…
Argenta (1 Polk) Sold In Bulk To Behringer Harvard
As a plugged-in resident reports, the bulk sale of Argenta (1 Polk Street) which had been built as condominiums, was unsuccessfully marketed for sale in 2008, and turned rental in…
Fairmont Hotel Redevelopment Plan Checks Out Early
Despite years of wrangling and design, it would appear as though the plan to redevelop San Francisco’s Fairmont hotel and convert up to 286 of the hotel’s rooms to condominiums…
Noe’s Firehouse 44 (3816 22nd Street) Closes For Just Over 4
As we first reported last month: We’re not in the habit of mentioning a sale until it has closed. And considering 3816 22nd Street has been in and out of…
A Hit And Run Reduction On Nob Hill
While we caught yesterday’s price reduction for 1177 California #203 (now listed for $283,662 versus its purchase price for $362,000 in January 2008), we completely missed the sale of 1177…
The 845 Montgomery Penthouse Pineapple Returns
While it didn’t find a buyer last year when listed at the same price, Penthouse Number One atop 845 Montgomery has just returned to the market at $3,150,000. Purchased for…
1984 Great Highway: From Fire Chief’s Cottage, To Church, To…
Built as a beach retreat in 1905 by a San Francisco Fire Chief who perished in the great quake of 1906, the “cottage” at 1984 Great Highway has served as…
Avalon Towers By The Bay (388 Beale) No Longer Owned By Avalon
A plugged-in reader reports: “I live at Avalon Towers (388 Beale Street) and learned yesterday that they had been sold to UDR (or should I say swapped with other properties).…