From The Readers’ Archives: The Battle Over 2125-2135 Leavenworth
From the comments with respect to 2125-2135 Leavenworth: I rent a block north of these. The local homeowners were up in arms with this project and there were posters circulated…
1240 5th Avenue: Raffle Winner Chooses Reality Over The Dream
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) “San Francisco Dream House” raffle is over and the grand prize winner (a real estate agent from San Carlos) has chosen the…
What’s Below A BMR? (To Be Said At Least Two Times Fast)
A Yerba Buena Lofts (855 Folsom) two-bedroom listed for $399,000. A one-bedroom at the Metropolitan (355 1st) listed for $297,588. Considering both are Below Market Rate (BMR) resales the prices…
Avram Goldman Speaks Then (2006) And Now (2009)
In the words of then Coldwell Banker President and COO Avram Goldman in mid-2006: The media still continues to hammer the housing market—trying to look for every negative shred of…
Back And Not In The Black For 3271 Baker Street
While 3271 Baker Street is now advertising “rent to own,” according to a plugged-in reader the current owners are in default on the property which might be something to consider…
A Commercial Quote With Residential Relevance?
It’s a fixed-income manager’s two ways of looking at Wells Fargo’s doubling down on commercial mortgage-backed bonds: “One is: Your past history tells me you don’t know how to assess…
Chris Daly Stays On Stevenson While His Family Moves To Fairfield
To be honest it’s a story we were planning on ignoring, but at the end of the day it’s going to be easier to simply post rather than respond to…
An Überprime Data Point Closes Escrow Down On Upper Broadway
As we wrote about the Überprime 2306 Broadway in April: Tax records suggested an August 2000 purchase price of roughly $7,000,000 for 2306 Broadway while a plugged-in reader puts it…
The Best Offer: 36 Percent Under Its 2007 Un-Gutted Purchase Price
Purchased for $1,053,000 in 2007, the single-family 324 Day was subsequently gutted, foreclosed upon and returned to the market mid-renovation last month over in Noe. Asking $760,000 (“Seller/lender anxious to…
2830 Pacific Scoop: Still Not Sold, But Leased With An Option To Buy
A few days ago 2830 Pacific was the poster child of a Bloomberg piece on the flagging upper end of San Francisco’s real estate market. As previously noted on SocketSite,…