Proposed Sixteen-Story Oakland Tower Closer to Reality
Plans for a proposed 16-story Downtown Oakland tower to rise up to 175-feet in height at 250 14th Street, with 126 apartments over 3,000 square feet of retail space and…
Bay Area Home Sales Jumped in December
Buoyed by closings delayed from the month before as lenders adjusted to new mortgage disclosure rules, the recorded sales volume of single-family homes and condos in San Francisco jumped 19.2…
Raiders Abandon Bid for Los Angeles Move
With team owners voting 30-2 in favor of the St. Louis Rams moving back to Los Angeles and granting the San Diego Chargers the option of joining them in Inglewood,…
Futuristic East Bay Estate Fetches $20.5M
The modern 14,000 square-foot Berkeley/Oakland Hills mansion which sits atop a ridge at 6889 Devon Way and is visible from Highway 24 has just traded hands for $20.5 million having…
Oakland Tipped in 2015
Near the end of 2014 we outlined why Oakland was at a tipping point with respect to demand for office space and growth. As we wrote at the time: “In…
Market Street Institution Moving to Oakland
With plans for razing the iconic Flax Art & Design store at 1699 Market Street to make room for a nine-story building with 162 units of housing, 97 parking spaces…
New Condos Buoyed San Francisco Home Sales Last Month
Buoyed by closings of contracts for new construction condominiums which are now ready for occupancy, recorded sales of condos and single-family homes in San Francisco were 13 percent higher in…
San Francisco and East Bay Employment Slip
The number of people living in San Francisco with a job dropped by 1,600 in November to 534,800, the first November without a gain since 2012. But with the labor…
Plans for Tallest Residential Tower in Oakland Back in Play
Originally approved for development over fifteen years ago, the plans for a 33-story Downtown Oakland tower to rise at 1640 Broadway, upon the current parking lot at the corner of…
Oakland Tower Sheds a Story and 28 Percent of Its Parking Spots
While Gerding Edlen’s plans for an Oakland tower to rise up to 250-feet in height at 1700 Webster Street, with 206 condos over four floors of parking and 6,000 square…