Oakland Tower Newly Rendered, City Seeks Outstanding Design
As we first reported earlier this year: Plans for a pair of residential towers to rise up to 275 feet in height at 325 Seventh Street, on the edge of…
East Bay Office Market Lull
While still below average, the vacancy rate for East Bay office space has ticked up from 8.2 percent at the beginning of the year to over 9 percent today, including…
Approved Berkeley Project in Play
As we first reported last year: Plans to level the former Northwest Berkeley service station turned abandoned tax office at 1740 San Pablo Avenue are in the works. And as…
Refined Design for Taller Oakland Tower
With an extra 15 feet of height and an additional 19 units approved last month, the final design review for the now 452-unit tower approved to rise up to 395…
Index for Bay Area Home Values Ticks Up, Led by the Middle Again
Having ticked up a percent in April, 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…
Median Price Holds but Bay Area Home Sales Drop to a 4-Year Low
The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area totaled 8,337 in June, a 9.2 percent drop in sales on a year-over-year basis and…
Rents in San Francisco Hold, Tick Up in Oakland
Having slipped a nominal 0.3 percent over the past month, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco, including one-off rentals as well as those in larger…
Bay Area Employment Slips, San Francisco Nears Negative Growth
The unemployment rate in San Francisco jumped from 2.1 to 2.7 percent in June as the number of people living in the city with a job dropped by 1,600 to…
East Bay Compound Fetches $10M under Original List
Priced at $22.5 million in 2015 and then reduced to $16.5 million last year, the massive East Bay estate at 10 Winding Lane in Orinda has just traded hands with…
Commission Slated to Condemn Plans for Oakland Tower
Having previously directed Oakland’s Planning Department to return with findings to support a denial of the proposed 460-foot-tall tower to rise at 1261 Harrison Street, on the historic King Block…