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As Proposed City Planning Industry Stuff Neighborhoods New Developments Real Estate Economics Trends

Builders Slow Their Rolls, Banking Entitlements in San Francisco

May 24, 2024

As we outlined at the end of last year, with values dropping, the cost of capital having jumped, sales down and developers getting squeezed or even foreclosed upon, the number…

City Planning Listings (for sale) Trends

Below Market Rate One-Bedroom Reduced

May 7, 2024

Purchased for $495,000 in January of 2020, the Below Market Rate (BMR) unit #101A at 45 Ora Way, a 684-square-foot, one bedroom condo that was remodeled in 2015, returned to…

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Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

April 4, 2024

Continuing a trend that shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers, other than the most obstinate, by surprise, the office vacancy rate in San Francisco ticked up to 33.9 percent at the…

As Proposed Bay Buildings City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Trends

Revised Plans for Historic Redevelopment Poised to Be Approved

February 23, 2024

With the pipeline of fully approved projects on the rise, the pace of construction slowing down, and more entitled projects being put up for sale or banked rather than preparing…

City Planning Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Real Estate Economics Trends

Another Supersized Development Has Been Abandoned

February 12, 2024

Having faced some pushback from Planning, related to the approved plans for up-zoning and infilling San Francisco’s Central SoMa District, the Fifth and Folsom Investors, LLC subsequently received a notice…

Bay Buildings Bubble (Or Not) City Planning Commercial Real Estate Economics Trends

Nearly 21 Salesforce Towers Worth of Vacant Office Space in S.F.

January 19, 2024

As we outlined earlier this week, the amount of vacant office space in San Francisco now totals nearly 28 million square feet, having increased by 2 million square feet in…

As Proposed City Planning Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Real Estate Economics Trends

Building Slows in S.F. but Pipeline of Potential Development Holds

December 28, 2023

With values dropping, the cost of capital having jumped, sales down, and developers getting squeezed or even foreclosed upon, the number of net new units of housing under construction across…

As Proposed City Planning Commercial Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Trends

Amendment for Proposed Distribution Center Inked

December 22, 2023

Certified by San Francisco’s Planning Commission in 2006, the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Projects and Rezoning impact report cleared the way for over 2 million square feet of new development,…

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Refined Plans for the Proposed Stonestown Redevelopment

December 13, 2023

As proposed by Brookfield Properties and newly rendered above and below, the refined plans for redeveloping the 41-acre Stonestown site would now yield nearly 3,500 residential units, up from around…

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Prohibited Residential Conversion(s) Proposed

December 12, 2023

Approved back in 2015 and subsequently dubbed “The Landing,” the 257-unit development that rose at 1395 22nd Street, along the East Slope of Potrero Hill, included 47,575 square feet of…

Neighborhood Activist on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
One can certainly hope so!
Notcom on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Scott Wiener and Sacramento knowingly set SF up for failure with the 82,000 unit mandate One has to wonder about…
Neighborhood Activist on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
I share your skepticism. I've also read that the 833 Bryant project, built on the cheap, has all kinds of…
Parklife on An Opportunity to Capitalize on a Bernal Heights Blaze
Except that the S&P return during that same period was approximately 88%, without holding costs (albeit assuming this was leveraged,…
Brahma (incensed renter) on An Opportunity to Capitalize on a Bernal Heights Blaze
If anything good can come from this, hopefully tthose who aren't cheerleading development and have concerns about neighborhood character will…
Jack on An Opportunity to Capitalize on a Bernal Heights Blaze
I guess it’s hard to argue with value engineering low income housing, but what a shame they were not able…
Brahma (incensed renter) on An Opportunity to Capitalize on a Bernal Heights Blaze
A joint venture led by three local developers including Bernal Heights Housing Corporation, Tabernacle Community Development Corporation, and Mitchelville Real…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Lurie's key claim — and the big point in his favor relevant for this thread — is that he was…
Neighborhood Activist on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Your guess is as good as mine. He may be really good for SF, or he may be worthless. I…
Notcom on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Yes it is, definitely...one of the two.

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Breaking News Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Builders Slow Their Rolls, Banking Entitlements in San Francisco

Below Market Rate One-Bedroom Reduced

Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

Revised Plans for Historic Redevelopment Poised to Be Approved

Another Supersized Development Has Been Abandoned

Nearly 21 Salesforce Towers Worth of Vacant Office Space in S.F.

Building Slows in S.F. but Pipeline of Potential Development Holds

Amendment for Proposed Distribution Center Inked

Refined Plans for the Proposed Stonestown Redevelopment

Prohibited Residential Conversion(s) Proposed

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