Purchased for $780,000 in 2013, the then 1,155-square-foot, two-bedroom Sunnyside home at 663 Joost Avenue was subsequently redesigned, expanded, remodeled and resold as a fully upgraded 1,725-square-foot, four-bedroom home, with a landscaped rear yard, deck and garage, for $1.7 million in September of 2020. Having returned to the market... Read More »

It has been over twelve years since the single-family home at 149 Mangels Avenue, the foundation of which had been reinforced with cereal boxes, collapsed on its new owner who was doing a bit of non-permitted work. Three years ago, the Sunnyside parcel traded for $725,000. And shortly thereafter,... Read More »

Purchased as a 1,300-square-foot house, with two bedrooms and two baths, for $760,000 in October of 2007, the Sunnyside home at 643 Mangels Avenue, just below Miraloma and to the west of Glen Park, resold for $527,000 in November of 2011. Since completely rebuilt and expanded to 2,300 square... Read More »

In the works for over a decade, the approved plans to completely overhaul and supersize the outdated Sunnyside Safeway at 625 Monterey Boulevard have been scrapped. Instead, the existing store will simply be renovated and “upgraded” in place, possibly without ever closing its doors. The original plans, which would... Read More »

Having been tagged for hiring a landscaper to simply start digging a new off-street parking pad for his newly acquired Sunnyside home, permits, plans and the City be damned, the owner of 698 Joost is now planning to go underground. While a permit to complete an emergency shoring of the hillside... Read More »

Having been informed that securing approvals and a valid permit to legally add an off-street parking pad to his home could be challenging and time consuming, a Sunnyside homeowner engaged a landscaper to simply start digging, permits, plans and the City be damned (as we first reported last week).... Read More »

The single-family Sunnyside home at 698 Joost Avenue was purchased for $705,000 without a garage or off-street parking space in January of last year. Last month, the buyer of the home met with San Francisco’s Planning Department to discuss excavating the home’s sloped lot using Excavation Contractors to build... Read More »

In the works for over seven years, the plans to overhaul and supersize the outdated Sunnyside Safeway at 625 Monterey Boulevard could finally be approved this week.  As proposed, the store will be expanded from 19,000 to 45,000 square feet, building across the store’s existing surface parking lot and... Read More »

Last November CBS5’s Joe Vazquez took a walk though of 149 Mangels (cereal box reinforcements and all). While yesterday he wisely observed from afar (and yes, talked briefly with us). ∙ Bidding War Erupts Over $399,000 San Francisco Home ∙ San Francisco Home Under Renovation Collapses ... Read More »

The San Francisco building permit for a partial foundation replacement at 149 Mangels Avenue: San Francisco Building Permit #200703226945. The anonymous complaint for non-permitted work on the foundation that preceded the permit by two weeks: San Francisco DBI Complaint #200794822. ∙ ‘Dream house’ collapses on Sunnyside hill Read More »