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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 Modern Noe Valley Compound Now Listed for 33 Percent Less

    152 days after after the revised listing mentioned in the penultimate paragraph above, 1647 Sanchez's listing was removed from the…

  2. Brahma (incensed renter) on “Full(er) House” Home Back on the Market

    Sold for 7.7 percent under asking. From India Roby at Architectural Digest, yesterday, in a story headlined The Full House…

  3. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Apparently, developers believe that S.F. doesn't have enough office space. But the vacancy rate is rising. According to an article…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Construction of Prominent Hub District Tower Has Commenced

    Might have been underway when the above was posted, but we weren't kept plugged-in. Lendlease’s tower to rise at 30…

  5. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern New Development Fails to Sell, Taken Back by The Bank

    Grubber2 pretty much nailed it. Sold by Avidbank to HSH Holdings for $14 million, or about 13.6 percent under the…

  6. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    My bad. Even realtor dot com is now showing that correct amount in its listing. I should have not taken…

  7. steve on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    I think someone mistyped the HOA fees. Redfin is now showing that as $1,764/mo. It doesn't change your main point,…

  8. Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

    It's not all bad at The Millennium Tower, and we can take a look at the unit namelinked above by…

  9. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    Not only has the building — now dubbed Crescent Nob Hill — been completed since the above post, but certain…

  10. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Probably won't meaningfully decrease the amount of office space on the market. Google is pulling out of it's lease at…

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