Into The Bernal Apple Cart Falls 82 Ellsworth
The sale of 82 Ellsworth on the South Slope of Bernal Heights closed escrow yesterday with a reported contract price of $855,000 (asking $899,000). Purchased in April 2005 for $975,000,…
San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity In October: Up 33.6% YOY
According to DataQuick, recorded home sales volume in San Francisco jumped 33.6% on a year-over-year basis last month (553 recorded sales in October ’09 versus 414 sales in October ‘08)…
US (But Not DA) Prime And FHA Mortgage Defaults Climbing
While subprime adjustable-rate foreclosures starts dropped in the third quarter of 2009 (from 5.52 percent to 4.92 percent), both the number and pace of FHA backed and prime fixed-rate mortgage…
Two Years And A 46 Percent Drop In Expectations For 2100 Vallejo
Listed in December 2007 for $25,000,000, reduced and then withdrawn in July 2008, 2100 Vallejo returned to the market a year later asking $15,200,000. Yesterday its asking price was reduced…
New Year (And Perhaps Market) Motivations Atop Nob Hill
From the property flyer now making its way around the brokerages for 1170 Sacramento Street #2B by way of a plugged-in tipster: “TENANTS HAVE MOVED—NOW PAINTED AND STAGED! MOTIVATED SELLER!…
A Resale One Joins The Two At Seventy-Four New Montgomery
While the two-bedroom 74 New Montgomery #502 remains available at $945,000 (24% under its un-upgraded purchase price in 2008), a tipster notes a one-bedroom resale (74 New Montgomery #305) has…
Sold Together For $9M in ’07, Purchased Apart For $6,766,001 In ’09
As we wrote two weeks ago: Still listed on the San Francisco Association of Realtors’ MLS last week as an “active listing” despite a plugged-in reader’s report that it had…
A Rather Modern Listing (But Really Not So “New”)
Back on the MLS and on tour “as new,” the list price for 297 Cresta Vista Drive is down to $1,290,000. Asking $1,595,000 in June 2008 before being withdrawn that…
The “Unexpected” Drops Spread To U.S. Residential Construction
“Residential construction in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped in October amid concern a homebuyer tax credit would expire , illustrating the market’s dependence on government help to sustain a recovery as…
Modern Ito Design Falls Prey To Modern Berkeley Economics
“A shortage of funds has prompted UC Berkeley to abandon its plan to construct a new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive downtown. The building, a distinctive and innovative…