San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity In April: Up 6.5% YOY
According to DataQuick, recorded home sales volume in San Francisco was up 6.5% on a year-over-year basis last month (428 recorded sales in April ’10 versus 402 sales in April…
Unfortunately It’s A Zero-Sum Game
Purchased for $858,000 in July 2007, 1310 Fillmore #403 returned to the market this past March listed as a short sale for “$675,000.” Three weeks later its list price was…
No Commission Consensus On Tonga Room (But Concerns To Come)
You’ve still got a couple of weeks to perfect that Tongan war cry and dig out your favorite Polynesian shirt prior to the public hearing on the proposed revitalization of…
From Services For Chronic Back Pain To…Chronic After Services
With 405 pages of multi-signed petitions and 177 letters and e-mails in opposition (“resulting in thousands of signatures”) but 12 pages of multi-signed petitions, 359 letters and e-mails, and 1,508…
Care To Make Like A Hermit Crab And Adopt This Shell As Your Own?
With the kitchen and bathroom currently down to the studs, we’ll agree with the “blank canvas” characterization (and not in a bad way). Purchased for $610,000 in 2003, 101 Lombard…
Residential Mortgage Foreclosures Rise In The First Quarter Of 2010
The percentage of U.S. residential mortgages in foreclosure rose 5 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2009 to 4.63 percent in the first quarter of 2010, up 78 basis…
First Peek Inside The Finished St. Regis Penthouse Atop 188 Minna
As a plugged-in tipster reported in September: The St. Regis service elevators have been working overtime for weeks shuttling men and material up to the top. I would expect this…
April HAMP Highlights: 295,348 Modified (Out Of 3,275,249 Eligible)
The government’s Making Home Affordable Program (HAMP) has resulted in 295,348 active permanent loan modifications through the end of April. An additional 637,353 trial modifications are in place versus 277,640…
Proposed Plans For The Nearly “Historic” House Lot At 1268 Lombard
A year ago a Russian Hill “historic” cottage at 1268 Lombard lost its battle with a wrecking crew over preservationists’ protests (and under “resourceful” circumstances). As we wrote at the…
U.S. Housing Starts Up But New Permits Decline As Tax Credits Expire
“Work began on more U.S. houses in April than at any time in over a year and wholesale prices unexpectedly decreased, showing the economy is strengthening without stoking inflation” but…