According to the agent for the 22-acre “Fieldhaven” estate at 7 Country Oak Lane in Alamo, David Duffield, the co-founder of PeopleSoft and Workday, invested over $135 million in building out the property, a build-out which was completed in 2013 by a team of over 200 craftsmen over the... Read More »

The underdeveloped lot at the corner of Cleveland Street and Park Boulevard in Oakland’s Cleveland Heights neighborhood hit the market in 2004 with permitted plans for a 25-unit building – including 24 residential units, one commercial space and a 25-car garage – to rise on the 2805 Park Boulevard... Read More »

Purchased for $6.495 million in April of 2016, the 5,493-square-foot “Light House” condo at 651 Dolores Street, one of four condos within the converted Second Church of Christ Scientist, across from Dolores Park, returned to the market in August of 2017 with a $6.795 million price. Reduced to $6.349... Read More »

While effectively unchanged over the past week, as expected, the number of homes on the market in San Francisco (710) is now running roughly even with the same time last year. At the same time, pending sales activity in the city remains down and has been running an average... Read More »

While 17 percent higher than at the beginning of the month, the number of homes on the market in San Francisco is now holding at around 700, which is 37 percent higher than in June of 2015 but 3 percent lower than at the same time last year, with the... Read More »

Outfitted with three-bedrooms, two baths and “plenty of upgrades,” the roughly 1,500-square-foot home at 738 Banks Street, on the southern edge of Bernal Heights, was listed for $1.650 million back in the fourth quarter of 2015, an above-average list price of $1,093 per square foot at the time. Subsequently... Read More »

As we outlined in April: Purchased for $1.74 million in May of 2015, renovated (“including all new kitchen, all new bathrooms, a lighting system, hardwood floors and window coverings”) and then successfully flipped for $2.255 million in March of 2016, the 1,789-square-foot unit #202 at 1150 Sacramento Street returned... Read More »

Purchased by Owen Van Natta, the onetime Facebook COO and former executive at MySpace, Zynga and Amazon, for $9.0 million in June of 2011, the gated Palo Alto neo-Tudor which sits on over an acre of land at 369 Churchill Avenue has since been completed renovated and expanded to... Read More »

While the inventory of homes actively listed for sale in San Francisco inched up another 2 percent over the past week to 650, which is 38 percent higher than in mid-May of 2014, inventory levels are now running 7 percent lower than at the same time last year, which... Read More »

Listed as Project 16-693 in Bone Structure’s portfolio of buildings, the contemporary Claremont Pines home at 6226 Acacia Avenue, which sits above Oakland’s Rockridge neighborhood and overlooks the Claremont Country Club, was built with steel framing and finished in 2017. The main floor of the five-bedroom home, which measures... Read More »