A Twenty Percent Drop at The San Francisco Shipyard
Marketed as a “fantastic opportunity to get in on the new and ultra chic community of The Shipyard,” the two-bedroom, two-bath unit #216 at 451 Donahue Street, which was purchased…
Black and Blue with Stakeholders All Over
Built in 1920, the two-story building on the northwest corner of 8th and Howard might not appear to be particularly noteworthy. But having been identified as a contributing resource to…
Historic Addition Redesigned, Rendered and Formally Proposed
Having faced some pushback from Planning as originally envisioned, the plans for a five floor addition atop the historic Key Klub building at 850 Bush Street, which is located within…
Big(ger) Plans for UCSF’s Parnassus Campus Slated for Approval
While the growth of University of California San Francisco’s Parnassus Heights Campus was capped back in 1976, plans to add another 1.38 million square feet of clinical, research and administrative…
Luxury View Condo Drops $700K Despite Bay Area Trend
Purchased for $5.3 million in January of 2018, the nearly 2,700-square-foot unit #39B atop the Lumina tower at 201 Folsom Street returned to the market priced at $5.998 million in…
Luxury One-Bedroom Drops $200K Since Mid-2019
Purchased for $1.225 million in May of last year, near the height of the industry-driven “wave of millionaires” misreports, the garden view unit #4C in the Lumina mid-rise at 333…
Failed Auction Yields Newfound Transparency
Purchased for $665,000 in July of 2013, the 765-square-foot unit #1011 in the SoMa Grand at 1160 Mission Street returned to the market listed for $779,000 this past July, a…
The “Most Expensive Home in San Francisco” Sold for Far Less
As we outlined in August of last year: Priced at $45 million , which was misreported by some as being “the most expensive home ever listed” in San Francisco, “Residence…
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More Units for Fewer Residents Closer to Reality
As we first reported earlier this year, a proposed revision to the previously approved plans for a new 13-story, mixed-use building to rise on the site of the columned Fifth…
Apples-to-Apples in the Heart of Hayes Valley
Billed as the “ultimate urban oasis for the savvy buyer,” the top floor, two-bedroom, two-bath unit #502 at 300 Ivy Street, a LEED Platinum development in the heart of “trendy…