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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
Design & Architecture Listings (for sale)

Feel Like A Feudal Lord In Forest Hill Extension: 112 Kensington Way

October 5, 2009

The empty Forest Hill Extension lot at 112 Kensington Way above. A rendering of the “approved” plans for a 5,652 square foot “French Provincial estate” to rise on the site…

As Proposed Being Green Neighborhoods

Treasure Island: We Have A Plan, So Can’t We Just Have The Land?

October 5, 2009

It’s been over two years since we first plugged you in to SOM’s design for an ubergreen urban redevelopment of Treasure Island. And ever since then, The City has unsuccessfully…

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale)

Quite Simply, We’re Suckers For The Arts (And Crafts)

October 2, 2009

Quite simply, we’re suckers for Arts & Crafts (even if it’s only “inspired by”). ∙ Listing: 2 Ord Court (1/1) 1,100 sqft – $875,000

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale)

A Contemporary In 2003 Is Back On The Market In 2009, Is It Still So?

October 2, 2009

One of three relatively modern (or at least contemporary) homes in a row on 27th Street, 622 is on the market and asking $2,349,000. Purchased for $1,559,500 in 2003. Not…

Trends

The Real Real Estate Killer Rises Up

October 2, 2009

As we wrote in January, the real real estate killer and story this year will be unemployment. It’s now up to (at least) 9.8 percent in the U.S. and 10.1…

New Developments

Three Unsold Greenwich Condos For One Underdeveloped Mission Site

October 2, 2009

According the San Francisco Business times JCN Development (think 1501 Greenwich) has purchased the “Quality Tune-up” site at 490 South Van Ness for $2,650,000. The parcel, at South Van Ness…

Listings (for sale)

3855 Washington Joins The Recently Renovated “Heights” Fray

October 2, 2009

Adding to the expanding inventory of multi-million dollar “Heights” homes that have recently undergone multi-million dollar renovations and are now all hitting the market comes 3855 Washington with an asking…

Listings (for sale) New Developments

1495 Valencia: Two Of Eight New “City Homes” Now Official Inventory

October 2, 2009

Two of eight new “2 and 3 Bedroom City Homes” at 1495 Valencia have been listed with prices of $739,000 for #3 (a two-bedroom) and $999,000 for #4 (a three-bedroom).…

Bay Buildings Listings (for sale) Real Estate Economics

We Have A 310 Townsend (#303) In Progress

October 2, 2009

Originally asking $957,000 through the sales office in 2007, 310 Townsend #303 ended up selling for $850,000 in November of that year (a discount of 11.2%). Back on the market…

Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

The Presidio House The Mouse Built: Disney Family Museum Opens

October 1, 2009

While CAMP never came to be, the Walt Disney Family Museum opened its doors today in a couple of renovated Presidio buildings. And for some coming from the south, it…

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    I completely agree, and if you're looking for a natural test of whether or not the extremely heated market dynamics…

  2. Brahma (incensed renter) on 141 Below Market Rate Modular Studios Even Closer to Reality

    We now have two more recent data points. Tahanan Supportive Housing (at 833 Bryant St.) completed in winter 2021, was…

  3. Brahma (incensed renter) on Beaux Arts Beauty Suddenly Back on the Market

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  5. Aaron Goodman on Parkmerced: From The Plans To Develop, To The Plans To Preserve

    Gabriel Metcalf should apologize, 6 national organizations signed a memo against the destruction of Parkmerced, and to date they have…

  6. Notcom on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval

    And don't forget the simultaneous implosion of the The California College of the Arts (CCA)...guess that move to SF wasn't…

  7. The Milkshake of Despair on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval

    The Academy of Art is a reminder of what the city has lost with the San Francisco Art Institute. The…

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    Here we are, more than six years later, and in a story datelined May 11, 2026 (Academy of Art sells…

  9. Notcom on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)

    Noted. But of course I'm more interested in (what passes for) journalism over at the 'Standard'": consider this remarkable -…

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