The Scoop On 147 Laidley: AIA Award Winner “Coming Soon”
According to a plugged-in tipster 147 Laidley, a 2008 San Francisco AIA tour home and recent AIA Design award winner, is being prepped for sale and is “coming soon.” From…
March S&P/Case-Shiller: San Francisco Slide Slows But Continues Fall
According to the March 2009 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index (pdf), single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA fell 2.2% from February ’09 to March ’09, down 30.1% year-over-year and…
An Updated Oakland (The Architect) Eichler Across The Bay In Marin
It’s a Claude Oakland designed Eichler across the bridge in Lucas Valley. Built in 1963 but renovated (modern lovers keep looking, Eichler purists look away) and expanded since. We’re not…
77 Van Ness: It’s Two Years Later And The Sales Office Opens Today
It’s been a little over two years since a reader first asked what was happening on the corner of Van Ness and Fell (and a plugged-in reader responded, “77 Van…
With Memorial Day Barbeques On The Brain (2209 Scott Street)
It was simply the wide plank floors (for which we’re suckers) and high ceilings (ditto) of the down to the studs (if not foundation) remodel of 2209 Scott that piqued…
24 Karat Gold Coast Coming Soon (2950 Broadway)
It’s the outer Broadway mansion from which Melvin Belli ran naked “firing a pistol at his wife who hosted a real estate show for the highest priced properties on television.”…
Extra! Extra! Read All About It…Extra Fees To Develop Downtown
“Developers who construct skyscrapers and other buildings near the new Transbay Terminal in downtown San Francisco will have to pay up to $850 million in extra fees over a 20-year…
Act Now (After Seventy-Seven Days On The Market) Or Else!
Purchased for $1,170,000 a year ago, 337 Douglass retuned to the market this past March asking $1,195,000. Reduced to $1,095,000 on April 1st and then to $995,000 on April 30th,…
San Francisco County Unemployment Dips To 8.8 Percent In April ’09
Preliminary April labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties puts the unemployment rate at 8.8%, 7.2% and 8.1% respectively, down 0.2 percentage points from March…
66 Everson: Charles Warren Callister Designed Mid-Century Modern
It’s a Charles Warren Callister designed Mid-Century Modern home up in Glen Park. In great condition and “largely unchanged from its original design” except for what looks like some new…