Six Months And A Modern Makeover Later, A Noe Home Returns
Purchased as a two-bedroom “Art Deco gem” for $955,000 this past May, the Noe Valley home at 655 27th Street has been redesigned, remodeled and returned to the market as…
Before And (Two Years) After In Presidio Heights
Picked up for $3,841,000 in April of 2010, 35 percent below the asking price in 2008, the exterior and interior of 3878 Jackson Street (including the faux tortoise shell master…
105 Danvers: Inside The Converted Corner Store And Stairway Code
Purchased for $2,115,000 in 2005, the designer Eureka Valley home at 105 Danvers Street sold for $2,400,500 in May of 2008. The converted corner store is now back on the…
Before And After, Inside And Out: 901 De Haro On Potrero Hill
Above, the façade of 901 De Haro Street before its recent renovation. Below, the carefully cropped façade of the house as it now appears and on the market asking $3,450,000:…
Family And Contractor Friendly In Noe Valley The Castro
The 2,900 square foot house at 257 Collingwood was purchased for $1,650,000 in 2007. Four months ago, plans to remodel, raise the house, expand to 4,100 square feet and add…
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Lurking Behind This Larkin Street Penthouse Wall: The Office
Penthouse #6 atop the Russian Hill building at 2555 Larkin Street was purchased for $1,950,000 in 2002 in need of updating, and updated it was (click floor plan to enlarge).…
Back (And “Over”) on Day for a Million Dollars More
As we wrote about the gutted home at 324 Day Street back in 2009: Purchased for $1,053,000 in 2007, the single-family 324 Day was subsequently gutted, foreclosed upon and returned…
Pushing The Architecture + Design Envelope Over In Noe
As we wrote and revealed about 264 Clipper Street back in 2009: The Envelope Architecture + Design remodel of 264 Clipper Street over in Noe Valley lands in The New…
Speaking Of Adding Floors And Altered Views: 680 Folsom Topped Out
Speaking of adding floors and unprotected views, a reader wonders how much higher the soon to be re-skinned building at 680 Folsom Street will rise. Our answer: with two floors…
You’ve Been Warned: Let There Be Less Light And Fewer Views
As proposed, a story would be added atop the four-story building at 1856 Pacific Avenue and its façade redesigned, resulting in a 55-foot building within an 80-foot height district. In…