Fronds To Fronds For A Few One-Bedrooms At The Palms (555 4th)
Purchased for $562,000 ($853 per square foot) in January 2007, the Palms (555 4th Street) #540 is now bank owned and back on the market asking $376,646 ($570 per square…
Cash For Closings Has Intended New Home Sales Results
Boosted by an expiring $8,000 tax credit for new-home buyers, the pace of U.S. new home sales increased 9.6 percent from June to July. The jump in sales was led…
Mission Bay Gets A Little More Growns Up Each And Every Day
From a plugged-in reader living in Mission Bay two years ago: I think it is comparatively safe as compared to lot of other neighborhoods in the city and I was…
Bank Owned No Longer On The South Slope Of Bernal (622 Gates)
As we wrote in May: Purchased for $510,000 in September 2005 and then flipped five months later for $631,000 (“Buy, sell, repeat, retire!”), 622 Gates Street was taken back by…
June S&P/Case-Shiller: San Francisco MSA Up MOM Across All Tiers
According to the June 2009 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index (pdf), single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA gained 3.8% from May ’09 to June ’09, down 22.0% year-over-year and…
The Designs For 246 Ritch Street: From SLI To SRO As Proposed
The project description from the preliminary mitigated negative declaration (a good thing if you’re in favor of development) for the proposed development of 246 Ritch Street: The approximately 4,130 square…
Five Years Of Appreciation Under Its Un-Renovated Year 2005 Price
Purchased for $1,295,000 in July of 2005, remodeled in 2007, and then bought back by the bank in July of 2009, 160 Westgate Drive is on the market and asking…
Twenty-Six In The Bush At 1299 Rising (And A Reality Check)
1299 Bush at the corner of Larkin as envisioned above and the reality to date below. Once again, 26 units over ground floor retail (and 20 parking spaces) coming soon.
The Examiner’s First Free Weekend Open House Guide (In Print)
The SocketSite cross-industry scoop last week: You probably won’t read about it in the Chronicle, but the scoop according to a plugged-in source is that the San Francisco Examiner is…
From Three To One And Six-ish To Five-ish (So Far): 75 Folsom #1204
Originally three individual units, the National Landmark Hills Plaza (75 Folsom) #1204 is now one 3,300+ square foot condo with three parking spaces, and three terraces. That’s 1.5 parking spaces…