Having dropped a little over 5 percent at the end of last year, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco, including one-off rentals as well as units in larger developments, has since ticked up around 3 percent to $4,150 per month. That being said, the... Read More »
The number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck was effectively unchanged from November to December and is now holding around a record 580,000 with an unemployment rate of 1.9 percent. As such, there are now 6,200 more people living in the city with paychecks than there... Read More »
As we outlined early last year, the refined plans for a seven-story building to rise up to 75 feet in height upon the Berkeley Touchless Car Wash and gas station site at the intersection of Kittredge, Fulton and Oxford Streets have been drawn. As designed by Kava Massih Architects,... Read More »
Designated an official Landmark in 1984, the ornately tiled and muraled “Howden Building” at 337 17th Street in Uptown Oakland was designed by McWethy and Greenleaf and built as a showroom for the Robert Howden and Sons tile, mantel and grate business back in 1925. The roughly 26,000-square-foot building,... Read More »
Having turned negative two months ago, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay and Peninsula – has since shed 1.5 percent of its value, an outcome which shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by... Read More »
Having really slowed its roll last year, the estimated population of San Francisco proper continued to grow at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the first half of 2019 and hit a record high of 889,360 as of July 1. That being said, for the first time in... Read More »
The weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco, including one-off rentals as well as units in larger developments, dropped a little over 5 percent over the past quarter to $4,050 per month. While an end of year drop is typical, keep in mind that the average... Read More »
Having inched up in October, the number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck was unchanged in November and remains at a record 580,000 with an unemployment rate of 1.9 percent. As such, there are 7,800 more people living in the city with paychecks than there were... Read More »
The refined plans for a new six-story infill building to rise up to 64 feet in height at 1835 San Pablo Avenue in West Berkeley, upon the shuttered Midas shop’s parcel on the northeast corner of San Pablo and Hearst, could be permitted by the City’s Zoning Adjustments Board... Read More »
Having benefited from a seasonal bump in the onboarding of new graduates in September, the number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck inched up by another 100 in October and now totals a record 579,900. But with a labor force that increased by 900 over the... Read More »
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