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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
Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods

Entitled, Envisioned And For Sale (But Not Permitted): 1600 Market

April 13, 2009

The corner of Market at Franklin and Page as it looks (for the most part) above, the same corner (1600 Market) as envisioned by Stanley Saitowitz and as is being…

Trends

SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Update: 4/13/09

April 13, 2009

Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco fell 4.7% over the past two weeks (versus an average gain of 1.9% for the same two week…

Neighborhoods

Two Years And Twenty Percent Down (Not Including The New Kitchen)

April 13, 2009

Two years ago 25 Mercedes Way was listed for $1,895,000 and sold for $2,200,000. Six months ago 25 Mercedes Way returned asking $2,099,000. And five days ago the sale of…

Design & Architecture Neighborhoods New Developments

Which Is Destined to Age More Gracefully, Its Residents or Design?

April 13, 2009

The discussion of Arquitectonica’s proposed design for 1960-1998 Market Street somehow takes a turn toward the Institute on Aging’s new Senior Campus rising at 3575 Geary where the Coronet Theater…

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JustQuotes: East Bay Agents And Stagers Beware

April 13, 2009

“An unusual wave of burglaries has hit unoccupied houses for sale in this affluent 1.8-square-mile bedroom community in the hills east of Oakland, and it is testing the forced cheerfulness…

Design & Architecture Neighborhoods New Developments

Now THAT’s The (An) Arquitectonica Design For Market At Buchanan

April 10, 2009

We weren’t planning on publishing today, but a plugged-in tipster delivers the goods for the Arquitectonica design of 1960-1998 Market at Buchanan. Never mind those EIR massings (but not the…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings

A Return To Reality For A One Rincon Hill “02” Stack Resale (#2202)

April 9, 2009

Priced by the One Rincon Hill sales office at $1,020,000 (not including any upgrades) on the first day of pre-sales in 2006, an upgraded 425 1st #2202 created quite a…

Apples To Apples Coming Soon Design & Architecture

141 Beaver: Let There Be Light And Air (And A Sweet Little Back Yard)

April 9, 2009

According to a plugged-in tipster 141 Beaver Street will be hitting the market this weekend with an asking price of $1,850,000. Built in 1902 but redesigned by architect Bernardo Urquieta…

Bay Buildings Breaking News Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

A Step Forward For The Plans To Expand Fox Plaza (1390 Market)

April 8, 2009

A Preliminary Mitigated Negative Declaration has been issued by San Francisco’s Planning department for Archstone-Smith’s proposed expansion of Fox Plaza (1390 Market Street). The proposed project would entail demolition of…

Commercial Real Estate Economics Trends

Co-opting A Reader’s Comment: Our Commercial Market Decline

April 8, 2009

As a plugged-in reader commented and we’ve now co-opted, San Francisco’s commercial real estate market continues its decline. A few stats from Bloomberg: San Francisco office rents dropped 24 percent…

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Recent Reader Activity
  1. Brahma (incensed renter) on Dolores Park Light House Condo Listed for a Million Less

    I completely agree, and if you're looking for a natural test of whether or not the extremely heated market dynamics…

  2. Brahma (incensed renter) on 141 Below Market Rate Modular Studios Even Closer to Reality

    We now have two more recent data points. Tahanan Supportive Housing (at 833 Bryant St.) completed in winter 2021, was…

  3. Brahma (incensed renter) on Beaux Arts Beauty Suddenly Back on the Market

    Maybe the seller knew what they had, didn't want to take a more than $1 million haircut and was willing…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Contemporary Little Saigon Condo Listed for Nearly 30 Percent Less

    The one-bedroom, one bathroom 719 Larkin #705 sold for $690,000 in November of 2019, conforming to building and neighborhood comps…

  5. Aaron Goodman on Parkmerced: From The Plans To Develop, To The Plans To Preserve

    Gabriel Metcalf should apologize, 6 national organizations signed a memo against the destruction of Parkmerced, and to date they have…

  6. Notcom on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval

    And don't forget the simultaneous implosion of the The California College of the Arts (CCA)...guess that move to SF wasn't…

  7. The Milkshake of Despair on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval

    The Academy of Art is a reminder of what the city has lost with the San Francisco Art Institute. The…

  8. Brahma (incensed renter) on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval

    Here we are, more than six years later, and in a story datelined May 11, 2026 (Academy of Art sells…

  9. Notcom on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)

    Noted. But of course I'm more interested in (what passes for) journalism over at the 'Standard'": consider this remarkable -…

  10. Brahma (incensed renter) on Coveted LEED Condo Listed Below its 2015 Price

    Wound up closing at asking 39 days after the above post. Then something happened which appeared on the MLS like…

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