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Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops Asking Rents in San Francisco Are Ticking Up, But… Benchmark Mortgage Rate Poised to Inch Down Asking Rents in Oakland Tick Up, Down Year-Over-Year Index Versus Reality for Another “Over Asking!” Sale
Bay Buildings Listings (for sale)

A Favorite Soma Grand (Not From The Fifth Floor) Penthouse View

February 5, 2010

While the Craigslist post identifies this Soma Grand (1160 Mission) unit as #501, as a plugged-in reader notes, we’re pretty sure the penthouse level isn’t on the fifth floor. And…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale)

Apples To Apples To Apples (Plus Televisions) For 1606 Castro

February 5, 2010

Rebuilt in 2004 (after which it sold for $1,500,000), then resold in 2006 for $1,750,000, 1606 Castro is back on the market in 2010 and asking $1,875,000 (televisions included). ∙…

Bay Buildings Listings (for sale) New Developments

Book Concern Building (83 McAllister) Comes Back To Market As Well

February 5, 2010

Speaking of new developments now returning to the market, eight of the sixty units at the previously sold out Book Concern Building (83 McAllister) were just listed at prices ranging…

Trends

U.S. Unemployment Rate Declines To 9.7% (Yes, “Unexpectedly”)

February 5, 2010

Last week initial jobless applications in the U.S. increased to 480,000 and those receiving extended benefits increased by about 242,000 (4%). Luckily the headline U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 9.7%…

Bay Buildings Commercial Listings (for sale)

Could Julius’ Castle Become Your Own?

February 5, 2010

Long seeking a new tenant since shutting down two years ago under allegations of landlord fraud, misrepresentation, and lease issues, a plugged-in tipster notes that 302 Greenwich (a.k.a. Julius’ Castle)…

Bay Buildings Trends

Symphony Towers Moves To Sell Twenty-Six Leased Leftover Units

February 5, 2010

While we broke the news last week with respect to Artani (818 Van Ness) unsuspending their sales efforts, apparently Symphony Towers is doing the same for 26 (out of 130)…

Listings (for sale) Seemingly Random

A Smaller Lily Pad And Hayes Valley TIC Apple To Be Comp In 2008

February 4, 2010

We’d call it an apples to apples sale to be for 75 Lily #4, but while the sale price of $489,000 in April 2008 is reported on the MLS, it…

Trends

[Accepting Applications For Headline, Prince References Preferred]

February 4, 2010

Five months ago the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed above ten thousand mark – a mark it first achieved in 1999 – for the first time in a year. Today,…

Breaking News

San Francisco’s 2010 Condominium Conversion Lottery Results

February 4, 2010

San Francisco’s 2010 Condo Conversion Lottery Winners List As promised and originally reported, certified results for San Francisco’s 2010 Condo Conversion Lottery are now online with the winners embeded above…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions

Top Floor Sir, Going Down (181 O’Farrell #513)

February 4, 2010

As we wrote in November with respect to Odeon (181 O’Farrell): And then there’s the penthouse (#513) which was purchased for $2,000,000 in March 2007. An attempt to sell it…

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