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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
Apples To Apples SocketSite Readers Report

Two Of Three (Or Fourteen) Offers For 4114 20th Street?

August 18, 2009

From one plugged-in reader with respect to 4114 20th Street: We moved up here from Laguna Beach last September and are still trying to figure out this market. We are…

Design & Architecture

AIA’s 2009 San Francisco Living: Home Tours (Plugged-In) Challenge

August 18, 2009

Eleven homes make up AIA’s 2009 San Francisco Living: Homes Tours Weekend (9/12-9/13). Based simply on the list of participating architects and project monikers, are you plugged-in enough to identify…

Remodeling and Renovation

815 Alvarado As Was In 1997 (Prior To Prevalent Digital Photography)

August 18, 2009

A photo of 815 Alvarado in 1997 when listed as a 688 square foot one-bedroom with one car parking asking $279,000 (and sold for $325,000). Comments on our original post.…

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Remodeling and Renovation

An Arts & Crafts 815 Alvarado By The Numbers In Noe

August 17, 2009

One legal apartment; two (point nine six five) million dollars; three stories, balconies, and parking spaces; three point five bathrooms; four bedrooms; and fifty-one listing photos. UPDATE (8/18): A reader…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale)

A Four Year Hold For A Renovated 819 Haight: A Winner’s Return

August 17, 2009

A renovated Victorian at 819 Haight Street hit the market in 2005 asking $1,395,000, it sold for $1,635,000 ($240,000 over asking). No word on what role the buyer’s agent played…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Rentals

A Maybeck For Rent On Castenada (And A Related Neighborhood Sale)

August 17, 2009

As we wrote five months ago with respect to 270 Castenada: Asking $3,890,000 and briefly in contract before being withdrawn last April, listed at $2,995,000 today. Still touting “too beautiful…

As Proposed Neighborhoods

SummerHill Bails On Proposal To Develop Parkmerced Center

August 17, 2009

A plugged-in tipster reports: “The owner of the Park Merced Shopping Center has decided to lease up the building after its to sale Peninsula residential builder SummerHill Homes fell through.…

Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions SocketSite Readers Report

Facing Foreclosure 3271 Baker Street Makes A Move In The Marina

August 17, 2009

As we wrote two weeks ago: Listed for $3,395,000 a year ago but last asking $2,125,000, it’s a plugged-in tipster that notices 3271 Baker Street is now advertising “rent to…

Rentals Trends

Shacking Up In San Francisco To Save Some Shekels

August 17, 2009

“Facing layoffs, pay cuts and furloughs, more people have turned to shared housing to help make ends meet. Craigslist, the online classified ad giant, says that its roommate-wanted postings over…

Bay Buildings Neighborhoods Seemingly Random

It’s Time To Get Our Sea Cliff Trivia (And Comments) Straight

August 14, 2009

The confusion isn’t too difficult to understand. But while the Sea Cliff home going on its thirteenth listing is 830 El Camino del Mar, it’s 890 El Camino Del Mar…

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