Following a couple of false starts and mis-reports, the formal application to proceed with the conversion of the ill-fated and long-vacant “6×6 San Francisco” shopping center at 945 Market Street into an IKEA-anchored Market Street Place has been submitted to Planning. In addition to an 87,000-square-foot IKEA, the conversion... Read More »

Purchased for $4.6 million in February of 2018 and then remodeled to yield four office suites over an open 4,000-square-foot retail space, with four new bathrooms and a newly poured slab floor, the two-story Western SoMa building at the corner of Folsom and Langton Streets, which was home to... Read More »

Having failed to sell at auction and survived a foreclosure scare, plans to entitle a bigger-than-bonus-sized tower to rise on the former National Guard armory turned parking garage site at 819 Ellis Street are progressing. While conceptual plans for a 13-story tower to rise up to 135 feet in... Read More »

As we outlined back in March, the 2,053-square-foot, three-bedroom unit #3501 in The Avery at 488 Folsom Street, which was purchased for $3.75 million in July of 2019, features “an extra wide open floor plan that creates a light-filled, airy and elegant lifestyle,” with expansive views, three full bathrooms... Read More »

Speaking of significantly sub-2018 pricing, but at the other end of the market, the one-bedroom, one-bath unit #606 at 1075 Market Street (“Stage 1075”) measures 672 square feet, with an open floor plan and (near) floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook Proper and the landmark Hibernia Bank. The building (“San Francisco’s... Read More »

While not recorded on the MLS, the three-bedroom, three-bath unit #60A at 181 Fremont Street appears to have been purchased for $5,772,672 in May of 2018, based on our review of its deed, as we first outlined a couple of years ago. As we also outlined at the time,... Read More »

As we outlined back in September of 2019: Built for an Italian men’s club in 1919, complete with a gym, boxing ring, and private social/supper club space, the ornate “Garibaldi Hall” at 435/443 Broadway, which is now on the market, has a storied history to tell. The roughly 12,000-square-foot... Read More »

As we outlined earlier this year, an application to entitle the development of a modern 7-story, 24-unit building upon the Nob Hill corner parcel currently occupied by two single-family homes, two apartments and the Twin’s Armoire building, a parcel which spans 842-860 California Street and back to 119 Joice,... Read More »

Having hit the market priced at $695,000 just two weeks ago, the resale of the “gorgeous” and “efficient” one-bedroom with a den unit #305 in the Rowan at 338 Potrero Avenue, which “exemplifies modern living,” has already closed escrow with an “over asking” contract price of $760,000! On an... Read More »

Acquired for $4.125 million in June of 2016, plans to level the shuttered nightclub space at 280 7th Street – a through block building which was once home to “Rawhide II,” the only Country Western club in San Francisco – and build 20 condos upon the Western SoMa site... Read More »