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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 Bubble (Or Not) RealRecentReductions

Putting On The Ritz At 44% Under Original List (And $813 Per Square)

November 18, 2009

Asking $3,747,500 ($1,453/sqft) when it first hit the market two years ago, a plugged-in tipster notes that the three-bedroom and 2,580 square foot Ritz-Carlton Residences #1102 closed escrow on 11/3…

Being Green Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Remodeling and Renovation

2342 Broadway Returns Anew, “Green,” And Asking $14,000,000

November 17, 2009

It’s not yet officially listed inventory, nor is the address even mentioned on the Sotheby’s site. But a few doors down from 2306 and 2310 Broadway, and across the street…

Bay Buildings

Rincon Center Towers $110M (And Possibly In Default) Debt For Sale

November 17, 2009

Two years ago the 320-unit Rincon Center Residential Towers (88 Howard) was sold to New York based Capital Properties for $143 million. The purchase was partially financed with a two-year…

Just Quotes (Emphasis Added) SocketSite Readers Report

The Belli Building NOD And Versus A Different B.A.R. (Builders)

November 17, 2009

“Perhaps the motivation for this statement was the filed on September 24. Ms. Belli recently (end of August) sold off two units at 481 Clementina. Evidently, she did not raise…

Trends

SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory: 11/17/09

November 17, 2009

Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco fell 4% over the past two weeks and is currently running 25% under 2008 levels on a year-over-year…

Just Quotes (Emphasis Added) Real Estate Economics Trends

Plugged-In People Should Have Seen This One Coming A Year Away

November 17, 2009

“A report released Monday by the controller’s office shows that property tax revenues will likely be $35 million less than anticipated in the 2009-10 fiscal year that began July 1.…

Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions

And On His Little San Francisco Farm He Grew…A Short Sale

November 17, 2009

As we wrote a year and a half ago: Purchased for $749,000 in March of 2007, another one of the four little Donald MacDonald “Urban Townhouses” on Hermann (396) didn’t…

Bay Buildings Commercial Design & Architecture Listings (for sale)

Belli’s Barbary Coast (And At One Time) Belle Of A Building

November 16, 2009

As Melvin Belli’s one time Gold Coast home still seeks a buyer, over the past month the infamous and Landmark Belli Building at 722-728 Montgomery has been doing the same.…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Listings (for sale)

Down on Nob Hill at Gramercy Towers (1177 California)

November 16, 2009

Billed as having the “Most desired junior 1 bedroom floorplan in building,” Gramercy Towers (1177 California) #1022 is on the market and asking $499,000. It was purchased for $462,000 three…

Industry Stuff

Affordable Housing Requirements For Rental Development Challenged

November 16, 2009

A developer’s recent legal challenge of the affordable housing requirements imposed by the City of Los Angeles in order to gain approval for a new market rate residential rental development…

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