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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
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Fit For A King San Francisco Mayor (Or Getty): 1101 Green #2001

April 24, 2009

Five weeks after a plugged-in reader reported the Mayor’s Bellaire Tower penthouse condo was on the market for $3,200,000 (which Matier & Ross confirmed three weeks later), 1101 Green Street…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale)

715 Cole: A Crispy Cole Valley Apple With Potential On The Tree

April 24, 2009

We’d at least redo the kitchen and repaint the façade. And based on the lack of bathroom photos we’d probably budget for them as well. But we do like a…

New Developments

One Rincon Hill Sales Update: Phase One 70% Closed Or In Contract

April 24, 2009

272 of the 390 condos in the first phase of building at One Rincon Hill (376 units in tower one plus 14 townhouses) are either closed or in contract including…

Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Listings (for sale)

Tehama Lofts #304 Takes You Higher (Boom-Shaka-Laka-Laka)

April 24, 2009

We’re digging the high windows, high-end finishes (including the “sly” fireplace surround), and staircase within the true conversion Tehama Lofts #304 (245 5th Street). Now if only there were a…

Trends

U.S. New Home Sales Down 31% YOY (West Shows Seasonality)

April 24, 2009

Purchases of new homes in the U.S. last month fell 0.6 percent to an annual pace of 356,000, down 31 percent from March 2008 and down almost 75 percent from…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions

Four Weeks Riper (And Another Reduction) For This Noe Valley Apple

April 24, 2009

As we wrote when 714 Duncan hit the market four weeks ago asking $1,295,000 having been purchased for $1,413,000 in January of 2008: There’s little doubt the quick turn will…

Design & Architecture Remodeling and Renovation

Skate Design Or Die: Pushing The Envelope On 264 Clipper Street

April 23, 2009

The Envelope Architecture + Design remodel of 264 Clipper Street over in Noe Valley lands in The New York Times today. Purchased for $1,368,000 in August of 2005 according to…

As Proposed Design & Architecture In The Media Neighborhoods

2655 Bush Street: Designs For Density On The Corner Of Divisadero

April 23, 2009

Assuming a conditional use authorization to allow for the development of over one-half acre in addition to all the other requisite approvals, the vacant two-story and 48,000 square foot convalescent…

Rentals Trends

RealFacts Reports (Not So Real) Asking Rents Flat In San Francisco

April 23, 2009

Based on a RealFacts survey of “professionally managed apartment complexes with 50 or more units,” The Chronicle reports that average rents in San Francisco are off by a nominal 0.1…

Trends

Actual Q1 San Francisco Foreclosures Fall But Notices Of Default Spike

April 22, 2009

Bay Area Notices of Default (NODs) in the first quarter of 2009 rose 17.6% on a year-over-year basis, up 35.5% in San Francisco proper (from 420 to 569). NOD activity…

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