Shuttered Real Food Company Site on Sale
As we first reported last year: While currently leased to Real Food Company, the neighborhood grocery which has occupied the converted auto garage for almost twenty years, the Cow Hollow…
Looking to Build Up in North Beach?
Recently permitted to continue being used as a 14-car parking lot for another five years, after which the lot will have to be shuttered as the ongoing use doesn’t conform…
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Two Million Dollar Price Cut for Restoration Hardware Residence
Purchased by the CEO of Restoration Hardware, Gary Friedman, for $5.9 million in 2013, the Napa Valley estate dubbed “Eight Palms” at 347 South Crane Avenue in St. Helena was…
Recommendation for Affordable Housing Requirements Revealed
With San Francisco Supervisors having drafted two competing proposals for overhauling the percentage and mix of below market rate (BMR or “affordable”) units that developers of market rate projects are…
Major Price Cut for Mission District Development Site
As we first reported earlier this year: Approved for a 24-unit development to rise up to six stories in height on the Mission District site, with 20 two-bedrooms and 4…
Complaints Related to Airbnb-ing in S.F. Have Doubled Again
Having more than doubled from around 250 in 2015 to over 600 in 2016, the number of formal complaints related to illegal short-term rentals in San Francisco is on pace…
Former ‘Farm’ Parcel Rezoned, on the Market as a Development Site
Having successfully petitioned to re-zone the southwestern spur of the former Mission District “Farm” buildings site from Open Space (OS) to Mixed-Use Residential (MUR), with the potential for building up…
The Story behind This $350K Over Asking Sale in West Oakland
Built as a duplex in the early 1900s, the two-story West Oakland building at 960-962 16th Street was subsequently converted into the House of Prayer Church of God with a…
Court of Appeal Rules That Children Aren’t Tenants
Reversing a lower court decision, California’s First District Court of Appeal has ruled that minors living in a rental unit with a guardian are “occupants” but not “tenants,” an important…
Privatization of Public Open Space in SoMa Approved
In the works for over two years, the custom-tailored ordinance to allow the owners of the 31-story Intercontinental Hotel at 888 Howard Street to privatize the two outdoor terraces on…