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A Yerba Buena Lofts (855 Folsom) two-bedroom listed for $399,000. A one-bedroom at the Metropolitan (355 1st) listed for $297,588. Considering both are Below Market Rate (BMR) resales the prices…
It’s the first resale of the 3,640 square foot full-floor 1001 California #3 since its complete overhaul by architect Andrew Skurman and designer Suzanne Tucker in the late 90’s. From…
As you might recall, Union Street was recently pegged as one of San Francisco’s three weakest retail corridors. To put it in visual perspective, a tipster directs us to a…
Purchased for $1,052,500 in February 2007 (which might or might not have included “over $50,000 in upgrades”), 235 Berry #416 returned to the market in April asking $1,295,000 ($804 per…
The Board of Supervisors has cleared the way for the Drew School expansion by rejecting a Pacific Heights Residents Association appeal of the plan’s environmental review and tabling an appeal…
Sales volume for listed single-family homes in San Francisco gained a nominal 2% on a year-over-year basis in July (218 transactions in 2008 versus 223 in 2009), up 9% versus…
Yesterday we saw the “rent to own” posts coming when the listings for 1810 and 1812 Pacific were withdrawn from the MLS. Little did we know they were actually already…
Pending sales of existing U.S. homes are up while personal incomes are down. As previously outlined, locally a lot will likely come down to (un)employment. ∙ Pending Sales of Existing…
Purchased in the Inner Mission for $541,000 in April of 2003, a bank owned and previous owner’s work in progress 981 Shotwell is back on the market and asking $555,000.…
In the words of then Coldwell Banker President and COO Avram Goldman in mid-2006: The media still continues to hammer the housing market—trying to look for every negative shred of…