Built for a baker and wagon driver circa 1906, the single-story home at 2785 San Bruno Avenue currently measures roughly 1,300 square feet, not including an unauthorized 400-square-foot in-law unit addition behind the main home, which has “passed through a number of owners and occupants throughout the twentieth century... Read More »

Purchased for $1,080,000 in November 2014, the resale of the already remodeled Portola District home at 401 Cambridge Street has closed escrow after three months on the market with a reported contract price of $1,115,000 and $841 per square foot. The apples-to-apples sale represents total appreciation of 3.2 percent... Read More »

Purchased for $750,000 in August 2005, the three-bedroom Portola District home at 401 Cambridge Street was foreclosed upon in early 2008 and fetched $499,878 in cash on the courthouse steps. Flipped for $691,000 in December 2008, the 1,400-square-foot home was “rebuilt in 2014” and resold for $1.08 million that... Read More »

Grocery Outlet isn’t only planning to take over the long-shuttered grocery store site at 1245 South Van Ness in the Mission which Fresh & Easy was planning to occupy, but also the recently vacated Fresh & Easy location at 1390 Silver Avenue and Somerset in Portola. As reported by... Read More »

After nearly two years on the market without any movement, and despite a neighborhood campaign to secure the land for community use, the asking price for the 2.2 acre Portola District block bounded by Woolsey, Hamilton, Wayland and Bowdoin streets has just been reduced from $12 million to $10... Read More »

The official list for Northern California has yet to be released, but the San Francisco Fresh & Easy at Silver and Somerset in the Portola neighborhood is one of the retailer’s 50 west coast locations slated to be shuttered, as are the Pacifica and Vacaville stores, according to a plugged-in... Read More »

The three-bedroom Portola District home at 401 Cambridge Street sold for $750,000 in August of 2005.  In May of 2008, the property was foreclosed upon and re-sold for $499,878 in cash on the courthouse steps. Listed for $758,888 two months later as a “stunningly remodeled single family home,” the... Read More »

Fresh off a successful CrowdBrewed campaign to fund the purchase of a 100 gallon nano brewing system and four fermentors, the founders of Ferment Drink Repeat, a start-up “Nano Brewery, Homebrew Supply Shop, and Brewery Incubator,” have signed a lease for a retail space on San Bruno Avenue in... Read More »

A former dumping ground for trash and gathering spot for “vandals and illicit activity” along the Portola neighborhood’s commercial corridor, the cul-de-sac at the beginning of Burrows Street has been transformed into a pocket park. While the ribbon was cut for the first phase of the Burrows Street Pocket... Read More »

Owned by the Garibaldi family since the 1920’s, while some neighbors had been hoping the Portola neighborhood land upon which the decaying greenhouses of the old University Mound Nursery sit would be turned into a public park, the entire 2.2 acre block is now on the market for $12... Read More »