JustQuotes: Think New Life, Lifestyle, And Landscaping
“The Painted Ladies charmed her. The de Young wowed her. But Liesbeth van der Pol also savored a part of San Francisco that many locals ignore – Mission Bay.” (Chief…
A Bank-Owned Bernal Apple Is Picked (For 16% Less Than In 2005)
Purchased for $841,000 in August of 2005, bought back by the bank this past January for $703,120, and then listed this past May for $658,630, the single-family (but zoned RH-2)…
Union Street’s Metro Theater: Saving Its Skin In Order To Un-Shutter
In a deal with preservationists, the re-developer of the Metro Theater on Union Street is expected to to restore the theater’s exterior “to reflect its “vintage heyday”” and sign “a…
An 06 Comp (In More Ways Than One) At One Rincon Hill
While One Rincon Hill (425 1st Street) #806 has been on the market for 87 days asking $945,000 ($763 per square foot), the sale of 425 1st Street #1306 closed…
Plugged-In Perspective On Occupancy (And Incentives) At Avalon III
From the San Francisco Business Times last week with regard to Avalon at Mission Bay III: …AvalonBay’s third Mission Bay building, which opened less than a month ago and held…
SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory Update: 6/29/09
Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco declined 0.7% over the past two weeks (versus an average drop of 2.6% for the same two week…
Past Performance Recoveries Are No Guarantee Of Future Results
“The residential real estate market improved ahead of the end of the past seven contractions, with home construction starts beginning to climb an average of seven months before gross domestic…
A White House To End A Black Week
Five bedrooms, five baths and over 5,000 square feet, the contemporary 388 Lansdale was built in 1991 the same year Michael Jackson released Dangerous. And while not one of his…
Japantown’s Better Neighborhood Plan Update: Draft Acknowledged
While 3D Investments’ redevelopment of the Japan Center Mall and Peace Plaza was pushed back by the economy late last year, the Planning Department’s Japantown Better Neighborhood Plan has been…
Strata And Avalon III Riding A Mission Bay Rental Wave
“The Strata, the first development on the still-unopened new Fourth Street, has leased 103 apartments in 90 days…four apartments a month above leasing goals, although Urban Housing Group has slashed…