A One Time Fire Sale To Address An Ongoing Budgetary Problem
From Guardians of The City with respect to old Engine Company No. 16 at 909 Tennessee: City Architect John Reid Jr. designed this two-story brick structure to replace the original…
18 Percent Over Asking In Bernal! (And Just 1% Under 2004)
Prepare yourselves for the email blasts, newsletters, and perhaps even a news report or two as 39 Virginia just closed escrow for 18% over asking in Bernal Heights! The tidbit…
Eight Hundred Per Square Foot For Nine Hundred Clayton
While we typically cringe when “period details” are painted over, in this case we like the overall effect (not to mention curb appeal). Asking $2,395,000 when listed in September 2008,…
Twelve Months Later A Spruced Up Twenty-One Farnum Returns
It’s not apples to apples as the kitchen has been spruced up (after above, before below), the impact of which we’d probably overlook in and of itself in terms of…
Flipping A Few Lembi Properties Through Foreclosure
A plugged-in tipster reports: Coastal Capital of Sausalito, which bought a portfolio of loans secured by Lembi properties, foreclosed on the properties . Coastal reportedly paid $24.1 million (64% of…
Into Contract After Four One Month On The Market For 169 Yukon?
Listed for $649,000 last October, the listing for 169 Yukon was withdrawn in December and then relisted anew at $625,000 at the end of January. And while the listing is…
U.S. Previously Owned Home Sales Sucking A Little More Wind
Once again, our headline for November’s existing U.S. home sales gain of 7.4 percent: A Sprinter’s Or Marathoner’s Pace? In December the pace of U.S. existing home sales fell 17…
Strike Up The Band, 610 Rhode Island (“Kronos House”) Returns
On the market in 2007 asking $2,300,000, the Daniel Solomon designed 610 Rhode Island (a.k.a. Kronos House) garnered four offers and sold for $2,551,000 that August. Quietly on the market…
Lenders (And The Market) About To Be HAMPstrung?
“The Obama administration may expand efforts to ease the housing crisis by banning all foreclosures on home loans unless they have been screened and rejected by the government’s Home Affordable…
Into Our Apple Cart (And Back To 2005) 79 Woodland Goes
The apples to apples sale of 79 Woodland closed escrow yesterday with a reported contact price of $1,335,000 ($6,000 over asking). Purchased for $1,300,000 in June of 2005, call it…