99,750 Reasons Your Agent Might Now Be Bullish On One Rincon Hill
If your agent has suddenly become bullish on One Rincon Hill unit #2904, a plugged-in tipster notes there might be more than one reason why: According to an email sent…
The Permit Fee Schedule For Building (Or Blocking) In San Francisco
Wondering how expensive the permits might be to demo, rebuild or remodel a property in San Francisco? Or perhaps how high (or rather low) the financial barriers are to appeal…
Raising The Threshold For Requiring Below Market Rate (BMR) Units
On the agenda for San Francisco’s Land Use and Economic Development Committee this afternoon, a proposed Planning Code amendment changing the threshold for new developments that must adhere to San…
Full Disclosure Or Poisoning The Well?
The two-unit building at 446-448 Missouri Street is on the market in Potrero and asking $1,199,000 for the whole shebang. According to the listing, however, while “both units enjoy classic…
Affordable Housing Headwinds And TNDC’s New Tack In San Francisco
From Don Falk, Executive Director at Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC), with respect to the challenges of financing affordable housing development in San Francisco and the development of 168-186 Eddy…
SF Cribs: Coming Up Short (In More Ways Than One)
Listed as a one-bedroom for $765,000 when The Hales Warehouse first hit the market in 2007, 410 Jessie #603 was purchased for $749,700 that July. Having been unsuccessfully listed for…
32 Percent More Or Less Efficient In San Francisco Part Two
As we first reported this past March: Per San Francisco Building Code Section 1208.4, the smallest legal dwelling unit in San Francisco must have living room of at least 220…
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt And An Eviction
With respect to whether or not a potential crackdown on illegal short-term rentals as facilitated by services such as Airbnb is simply FUD (“fear, uncertainty, and doubt”) or waiting in…
Maher Muhawieh’s “Winning” Ways (And Federal Prison Sentence)
From the Grand Jury Indictment that a plugged-in reader delivered back in 2010: Beginning at a time unknown to the Grand Jury, but no later than January 2006, and continuing…
Will Wells Profit On This Condo’s Foreclosure?
Purchased for $610,000 in 2004, the two-bedroom Pacific Heights condo #409 at 1945 Washington Street was refinanced in 2007 with a first mortgage for $615,000. Having fallen $13,274 behind on…