QuickLinks: Same Day And Story, Two Rather Different Takes
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Reductions Reach Below Market Rate Units On Ora Way (And Others)
Eight below market rate (BMR) condos on Ora Way are on the market up in Diamond Heights. Applicants can have household incomes of up to 120% of the Area Median…
An In Your Face “Eco-Friendly” Closing Price For 118-120 Cervantes
Last asking $2,750,000, the “eco-friendly” 118-120 Cervantes closed escrow today with a reported contract price of $2,430,000 (19% below its original asking of $3,000,000). A weekend-starting “as it looked before”…
Certain To Draw Out A Slater Or Two (449-451 Eureka)
If you’ve ever walked by and wondered what’s inside 449-451 Eureka, now you get to see. And about that “Swim Suit Optional” open house scheduled for this weekend… ∙ Listing:…
San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity In July: Down 10.8% YOY
According to DataQuick, recorded home sales volume in San Francisco fell 10.8% on a year-over-year basis last month (543 recorded sales in July ’09 versus 609 sales in July ‘08)…
San Francisco County Unemployment Up To 9.9 Percent In July
Preliminary July labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties puts the unemployment rate at 9.9%, 8.2% and 9.0% respectively, up 0.1 percentage points for San…
A Mission Apple Condo Times Two: 662 Capp Street #3
Built in 2000 and sold for $535,000 in March of that year, 662 Capp Street #3 resold for $780,000 in November 2004 for average annual appreciation of 8.4% over those…
It’s Funny What Happens When People Are Forced To Sell, They Do
While the pace of existing U.S. home sales increased 7.3 percent from June to July (the biggest monthly gain “since records began in 1999”) and 5 percent year-over-year, forced sales…
Another Ex-Mayor’s Landmark Mansion Coming Soon (1772 Vallejo)
As a plugged-in tipster points out, the Landmark Burr Mansion (1772 Vallejo) is coming soon. A bit of history on the house and Burr: The Italianate mansion on Vallejo Street,…
As Seen On The Temporary Transbay Terminal Construction Cam
While a couple of plugged-in readers provided us with Temporary Transbay Terminal close-ups of its palms arriving and being planted, another points to the construction cam. And with respect to…