Having been painstakingly renovated and restored in 2002, the 6,000-square-foot “Grande Dame” at 1450 Masonic Avenue sold for $4.95 million in 2005 and then again for $5.375 million in July of 2014. Four months later, plans to remodel the home’s kitchen and three of its five and one-half bathrooms... Read More »

Having been painstakingly renovated and restored in 2002, the 6,000-square-foot “Grande Dame” at 1450 Masonic Avenue sold for $4.95 million in 2005 and then again for $5.375 million in July of 2014. Four months later, plans to remodel the home’s kitchen and three of its five and one-half bathrooms... Read More »

Painstakingly restored and renovated in 2002, and already a “comfortable contemporary home” according to its listing last year, the 6,000-square-foot “Grande Dame” Victorian at 1450 Masonic Avenue was purchased for $5.375 million in July of 2014. Four months later, plans to remodel the kitchen and three of its five... Read More »

Built in 1908 and since seismically upgraded, the 4,500-square-foot Buena Vista Park home at 880 Ashbury was on the market for $2.75 million in early 2011 and sold for $2.46 million that June. The four-level home is an eclectic mix of old and new, with ornate original woodwork and period details; an... Read More »

As we first reported last year, the sale of the ex-Mayor’s ex-home at 1581 Masonic closed escrow on July 13, 2011 with a reported contract price $2,750,000. As plugged-in people knew, the Newsoms purchased the property $2,738,000 in 2009. Returned to the market this past June listed for $2,895,000,... Read More »

As we first reported last July: “…the sale of the ex-Mayor’s ex-home at 1581 Masonic closed escrow today with a reported contract price $2,750,000. As plugged-in people know, the Newsoms purchased the property $2,738,000 in 2009. That’s an official six days between being listed and having sold “at asking”... Read More »

As a plugged-in reader notes, the sale of the ex-Mayor’s ex-home at 1581 Masonic closed escrow today with a reported contract price $2,750,000. As plugged-in people know, the Newsoms purchased the property $2,738,000 in 2009. That’s an official six days between being listed and having sold “at asking” according... Read More »

As we first reported in 2009, while the sales price of the then Mayor’s new abode at 1581 Masonic was reported on the MLS as “confidential,” it was a plugged-in tipster that tipped us off to the $2,738,000 contract price of the District 5 home which had been listed... Read More »

On Tuesday afternoon a tipster alerted us to the moving vans outside the Newsoms’ house at 1581 Masonic (purchased for $2,738,000 in June 2009), but we missed the shot. As a prescient plugged-in reader wrote last August: I bet if he loses the governor’s primary or the actual race,... Read More »

Behind the little brick wall up in Buena Vista Park, 893 Ashbury lies. Billed as a “Maybeck design” versus “Maybeck designed,” the previous owners and neighborhood friends have “declared that the house was designed by renowned architect Bernard Maybeck at the turn of the century,” a claim that has yet... Read More »