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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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