Condo Lottery Bypass For A Fee Resurfaces In Mayor’s New Budget
Last year when Mayor Newsom released his proposed budget for San Francisco a proposal to allow owners of tenancies in common (TICs) to bypass the city’s condo conversion lottery for…
The Designs For Three New Houses Below SF’s Historic Postcard Row
Plugged-in people have known about the project (not to mention the potential) for quite some time, but now we can finally share the plans for three new homes on Steiner…
Mandating Modification Decisions (And Drawing Out Foreclosures)
“A proposed California law, SB1275, seeks to… lenders to give a decision on loan modifications before starting foreclosure proceedings. A similar provision took effect Tuesday for banks complying with the…
3664 22nd Street Now And Then (But Not Appreciation Per Se)
3664 22nd Street now (asking $2,999,500 for the new construction above) and then (when bought for $1,050,000 in February 2007 prior to being demolished below). The impact to be on…
A Margarido (Sale) On The Rocks
As we wrote in March: While we typically wait until a property has closed escrow, or at the very least until all contingencies have been waived, a plugged-in tipster notes…
Trader Joe’s In The Castro Currently Stymied By A Shack
Just down the street from 2001 Market, the tentative leasehold agreement to bring a Trader Joe’s to the Market and Noe Center (2280 Market) was set to expire May 7…
A Finished 168 Yerba Buena Avenue Returns At Fifty Percent Off
In 2007 a still under construction 168 Yerba Buena Avenue (“inspired by Italian villas along Amalfi Drive on the Mediterranean coast”) hit the market asking $12,700,000 as one of two…
QuickLinks: Another Foreclosure Wave Forming Just Offshore?
∙ Owners Stop Paying Mortgages, and Stop Fretting ∙ Foreclosures shifting to affluent ZIP codes ∙ Interest-only loans meteoric rise in the Bay Area
SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory: 6/1/10
Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco rose 0.8% over the past three weeks versus an average 1.1% decline for the same three weeks over…
Closer To Reality For 2001 Market Street
A plugged-in tipster directs us to the most realistic couple of renderings we’ve seen for the proposed mixed-use development at 2001 Market and around to 14th. And while the BAR…