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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
Being Green Just Quotes (Emphasis Added) Neighborhoods

Candlestick Development Public Airing (And Environmental Challenge)

January 15, 2009

“A plan for turning San Francisco’s Candlestick Point and the Hunters Point Shipyard into a neighborhood and business district twice the size of Treasure Island – one that could include…

Listings (for sale) New Developments Real Estate Economics Rentals Trends

One Rincon Hill (425 First Street): Rental Market Stumbling As Well?

January 14, 2009

Following in the footsteps of its “massive price reduction!!!” in December (originally asking $1,399,000, currently asking $999,900), the asking rent for 425 1st Street #1802 has been reduced to $4,200…

Listings (for sale) Remodeling and Renovation

643 Greenwich: Tastefully Remodeled in 2001 And Then Again In 2006

January 14, 2009

In 2001 the listing for 643 Greenwich noted: Tastefully rebuilt in 2001…epitomizes San Francisco-style chic…charming 1907 Victorian that has retained all its original character while affording contemporary comforts…owners have approved…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions

Another Shot At A Ripening Pacific Heights Apple: 2155 Buchanan #9

January 13, 2009

Purchased for $1,000,000 in June of 2006, listed for $950,000 in November 0f 2008, and…reduced to $885,000 last week. Once again: top floor, corner, renovated, parking and in the real…

Seemingly Random

The Un-Luck Of The Irish (And A Quote For Here At Home)

January 13, 2009

Yes, we’re well aware that San Francisco is not in Ireland (although we are home to many an Irish builder or craftsman), but the following quote couldn’t help but catch…

Apples To Apples Bubble (Or Not) Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions

It’s Double Entendre Time For 46 Tingley Once Again: Go Bears!

January 13, 2009

Purchased for $620,000 in September of 2004, 46 Tingely returned to the market in December of 2007 as a potential short sale asking $599,000. In September of 2008 the single-family…

Just Quotes (Emphasis Added) Real Estate Economics Trends

That TED Sure Is A Funny Fellow (And Worth Keeping An Eye On)

January 13, 2009

“The difference between the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, that banks say they charge each other for three-month loans in dollars and the yield on the three-month Treasury bill,…

New Developments Seemingly Random

A Summit Sale Below A Reader’s Target: 4121 Cesar Chavez #4

January 12, 2009

It was seven months ago a plugged-in reader Laura suggested an $800 per square foot target for the new Noe Condominiums known as The Summit at 4121 Cesar Chavez which…

Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions Trends

Less Great Expectations: 3271 Baker Drops Its New Year Asking 24%

January 12, 2009

As we first wrote about 3271 Baker when it hit the market six months ago (and was staged a bit differently): While the stucco, tiles, wrought iron railings, doorways, beamed…

Commercial Seemingly Random Trends

Pro Forma Problems: Find Commercial, Replace With Residential?

January 12, 2009

From J.K. Dineen at the San Francisco Business Times: Downtown San Francisco’s weakest year for commercial real estate since 2001 ended with a whimper, with the central business district losing…

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Recent Reader Activity
  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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 -…

  6. 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…

  7. Brahma (incensed renter) on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)

    And 12 years and 8 months later, brought to market asking $35 million only to be removed 122 days after…

  8. Notcom on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    I would diagnose this type of disconnect: Ass Burgher's Syndrome

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    Yes. You correctly understood the schtick. Business people can make up all kinds of rationalizations for their pecuniary interests that…

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    The Chron has some numbers to put to this: They just published a rundown of office occupancy by largest tenants.…

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