Having successfully rezoned the north side of 16th Street, between Folsom and Shotwell, to both allow housing to be built on the previously zoned Production, Distribution & Repair (PDR) site (a designation which explicitly prohibits housing) and raise its height limit from 58 to 90 feet, the ceremonial ground... Read More »

Priced at $1.879 million in early 2014, two-bedroom unit #206 at 3500 19th Street, at the corner of Valencia, sold for an even $1.800 million, or roughly $1,157 per square foot, that March. Featuring “an expansive open floor,” high-end finishes and a private deck overlooking the building’s courtyard, the... Read More »

Purchased for $1.5 million in August of 2014, when bank-owned, two legal units and partially tenant occupied, the “classic Victorian” at 3847-3849 18th Street, half a block from San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park, has since been rather spectacularly “reimagined for 21st-century living, adding contemporary and high-tech conveniences behind a... Read More »

Approved by voters in 1986, Proposition M limits the amount of new office space that can be built in San Francisco and provides San Francisco’s Planning Commission with the sole authority to allocate the pool of entitlements. As of the end of March, the pool of allocable space for... Read More »

The “two-bedroom” home at 2140 Great Highway hit the market earlier this year, with a marketing push touting its “Mondrian inspired” paint job (which the seller had successfully maintained for two decades). “Featuring unobstructed views of the sun, sky, sand and surf,” and a newly landscaped backyard (not to... Read More »

Purchased for $3.125 million in mid-2016, having been listed for $3.2 million, the designer two-bedroom penthouse #708 atop 255 Berry Street, which features a wood-paneled ceiling, walls and wide plank floors, returned to the market listed for $3.195 million last month. In addition to an open floor plan with walls... Read More »

Having hit the market priced at $29.8 million early last year, touting nine Feng Shui selling points, the modern Atherton mansion at 96 Ridge View Drive has finally fetched a $21 million contract price. Designed by Stanley Saitowitz and sited on a 1.6-acre parcel with views to San Francisco,... Read More »

As we first outlined early last year: Plans to level the two-story Ghirardelli garage at 915 North Point have been in the works since 2016. And as now formally proposed, two four-story buildings could rise up to 40 feet in height across the L-shaped site which fronts (2935) Larkin... Read More »

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 to the market listed for... Read More »

Plans to demolish the existing “Stop & Stor” self-storage facility at 2285 Jerrold Avenue, which is primarily composed of re-purposed shipping containers set on a 68,000-square-foot corner lot in the Production, Distribution and Repair (PDR) zone of western Bayview, are in the works.   As proposed, a new 6-story... Read More »