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More Height for Market-Rate Tower Closer to Reality

More Height for Market-Rate Tower Closer to Reality

As we revealed at the end of last year, a modification to the approved plans for Related California’s 365-foot-tall tower to rise on the parking lot parcel at 98 Franklin Street, at the intersection of Oak, was in the works, a modification which would increase the tower’s height to... Read More »

Another Prestigious High-Rise Unit Drops Below Its 2016 Price

Another Prestigious High-Rise Unit Drops Below Its 2016 Price

Purchased for $3.195 million in June of 2016, the 1,791-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bath unit #30E in the LUMINA tower at 338 Main Street failed to resell when listed for only 3 percent more ($3.295 million) last May, after which is was listed for rent at $10,000 per month. For those... Read More »

Exquisite Russian Hill Home Slips Below Its Pre-Covid Price

Exquisite Russian Hill Home Slips Below Its Pre-Covid Price

Having been “exquisitely renovated…with the finest materials, fixtures, and finishes, including the meticulous preservation of period details,” the 3,225-square-foot, four-bedroom Russian Hill home at 45 Glover Street, which includes a wraparound, top-floor terrace with two private patios and views to the Golden Gate Bridge, hit the market priced at... Read More »

Modern Hayes Valley Lily Pad Back on the Market for $3.6M

Modern Hayes Valley Lily Pad Back on the Market for $3.6M

Purchased as new for $1.775 million in May of 2010, which was below asking and near the bottom on the Great Recession era market, the 2,800-square-foot “modern Hayes Valley sanctuary” at 124 Lily Street, re-sold for $3.25 million in February of 2017, representing total appreciation of over 80 percent,... Read More »

Revised Plans for Supersized Tower Closer to Potential Reality

Revised Plans for Supersized Tower Closer to Potential Reality

As we revealed earlier this year, plans for a supersized 522-unit tower to rise up to 451-feet in height upon the former K&L Wine Merchants building parcel at 636-638 4th Street had been drafted and submitted to the Planning for review. While the proposed plans for the 46-story tower... Read More »

Timing for Hundreds of Approved Units Pushed Back, Again

Timing for Hundreds of Approved Units Pushed Back, Again

As we outlined back in 2019: Speaking of previously approved projects that have yet to break ground, the entitlements for the 230-unit development to rise at 667 Folsom Street are slated to expire in two months time and building permits for the project have yet to be requested. With... Read More »

Drawing a Line at Linea

Drawing a Line at Linea

Featuring “an ideal floor plan with bedrooms on opposite sides of the living space, tons of closet space, a contemporary kitchen with high-end European-style cabinetry, stainless steel appliances with a coveted gas stove and sumptuous quartz counter-tops,” along with “glorious south facing light” and a parking space in the... Read More »

Market Street Conversion on the Boards!

Market Street Conversion on the Boards!

Purchased for $30 million, or roughly $725 per existing square foot, last year, plans to expand, renovate and modernize the five-story commercial building at 838 Market Street, which was built as a shoe store for Sommer & Kaufman in 1930 and was more recently occupied by Levi’s, have been... Read More »

Sunnyside Single-Family Effectively Fetches Its 2020 Price

Sunnyside Single-Family Effectively Fetches Its 2020 Price

Purchased for $780,000 in 2013, the then 1,155-square-foot, two-bedroom Sunnyside home at 663 Joost Avenue was subsequently redesigned, expanded, remodeled and resold as a fully upgraded 1,725-square-foot, four-bedroom home, with a landscaped rear yard, deck and garage, for $1.7 million in September of 2020. Having returned to the market... Read More »

Condo Conversion of the Warfield Theater Building, Take Two

Condo Conversion of the Warfield Theater Building, Take Two

Once again, don’t panic, The Warfield Theater itself isn’t being converted into condos a la the Lighthouse development across from Dolores Park. But plans to convert 25,000 square feet of the Gustav Albert Lansburgh designed Warfield Theater Building’s commercial space at 988 Market, across the top five floors of... Read More »