As we wrote about the Book Concern Building condo #511, which measures a legal 275 square feet and fetched $465,000, or roughly $1,690 per square foot, in June of 2015: Having originally been listed at $485,000, rather than artificially priced at 50 percent below comparable sales in order to... Read More »
The Book Concern Building condo #511 which measures a legal 275 square feet – that’s 16 square feet smaller than the “smallest condo in San Francisco” that made headlines when it fetched $415,000 in April – has sold for $465,000 or roughly $1,690 per square foot. Having originally been listed at $485,000, rather... Read More »
Get ready for the “OMG” headlines, stories and exclamation points as a 275-square-foot studio in San Francisco is in contract with a list price of $450,000! Yes, that’s over $1,600 per square foot! And it might even sell for over asking! Of course, having originally been listed for $485,000... Read More »
The sale of the Book Concern Building‘s unit #505 at 83 McAllister Street has closed escrow with a reported contract price of $415,000, five percent under asking. And with 259 legal square feet, call it $1,602 per legal square foot for the well designed Civic Center studio. That being... Read More »
Keep in mind that the listed 259 square feet of living space within the Book Concern Building’s unit #505 doesn’t include the 150 square foot sleeping loft which is technically “storage” space and accessed by way of a custom installed spiral staircase. And as such, with a list price... Read More »
Speaking of new developments now returning to the market, eight of the sixty units at the previously sold out Book Concern Building (83 McAllister) were just listed at prices ranging from $299,000 for the 261 square foot number 412 (asking $273,000 in December 2006) to $519,000 for the 678... Read More »
A studio with loft (#211) has hit the market in the condo converted Book Concern Building (83 McAllister). Originally priced by the developer at $335,000 (in 2006), it’s currently listed at $334,900. And while it’s awfully difficult to tell by the listing photos, the studio looks to be in... Read More »
The final fifteen condominiums at Book Concern Building have been released and mostly studios remain. Official footprints are undeniably small (ranging from 256 to 500 square feet), but many of the units offer an additional 100+ square feet of loft storage space (i.e., unofficial sleeping space). And for the... Read More »
The conversion of the Book Concern Building (83 McAllister at 7th Street) from offices to “new efficiency lofts” should be completed by the end of September 2006. The 60 new units (6 below market rate) will range from studios to two bedrooms with lofts, and are currently listed starting... Read More »
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