The refined plans for a 61-story tower to rise up to 800 feet in height at 542-550 Howard Street (a.k.a. Transbay Parcel F) were approved by San Francisco’s Planning Commission early last year, plans which could yield 165 condos, a 189-room hotel, 275,000 square feet of office space and... Read More »

Purchased for $1.225 million in May of last year, near the height of the industry-driven “wave of millionaires” misreports, the garden view unit #4C in the Lumina mid-rise at 333 Beale Street returned to the market priced at $1.268 million this past January. The 916-sqaure-foot, one-bedroom unit is outfitted... Read More »

With the waylaid redevelopment of San Francisco’s shuttered Temporary Terminal site not expected to break ground until sometime in 2022 (at the earliest), and construction on the southern third of the site and development of a new mid-block Transbay Park on the middle third of the site not expected... Read More »

Listed for $1.15 million three months ago, the sale of the 851-square-foot, one-bedroom unit #16H on the 16th floor of the Lumina tower at 201 Folsom Street, which features “panoramic views,” wide plank hardwood floors, Siematic cabinetry, Gaggenau & Bosch appliances, custom closets, and a parking space in the... Read More »

Purchased for $1,697,171 in July of 2016, the 1,401-square-foot, two-bedroom unit #6G in the Lumina tower at 201 Folsom Street, with “an ideal floor plan,” “great light,” a private balcony, and two full baths, returned to the market priced at $1,975,000 in September of last year. Reduced to $1,925,000... Read More »

Purchased for $2,132,111 in December of 2017, the “luxe” two-bedroom, two-bath unit #25A in the Lumina tower at 201 Folsom Street, with “wrap-around floor-to-ceiling windows” and “awe-inspiring panoramic views,” returned to the market priced $2.5 million in August of 2018. Re-listed for $2,488,000 early last year, around the time... Read More »

Having been approved back in 2016 but yet to break ground, the entitlements for a skinny 495-foot-tall tower to rise at 524 Howard Street, a development which could yield up to 334 condos, or 72 condos over a 273-room hotel, “depending upon market conditions,” were quietly sold, along with... Read More »

The refined plan to permanently stabilize and potentially right the sinking Millennium Tower, by adding a series of 52 new cast-in-place reinforced concrete piles around the tower’s perimeter, has been approved and permits should soon be issued. As we outlined last year, the project will take an estimated 22... Read More »

Waylaid by the emergency closure and required fix of San Francisco’s new Salesforce/Transbay Transit Center, a refined request for proposals (RFP) to build around 250 units of below market rate (BMR) rental housing on the southern third of the shuttered Temporary Terminal Site, a nearly 43,000-square-foot site bounded by... Read More »

While plans for a luxury hotel and condo tower designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Mark Cavagnero Associates were previously approved and permitted to rise up to 405-feet in height at 555 Howard Street, the 69 condos which were to top the development have since been eliminated from... Read More »