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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
Neighborhoods New Developments Rentals SocketSite Readers Report

From Condos To Apartments And Signature To Hanover At Candlestick

December 8, 2008

From a plugged-in tipster with respect to development out at Candlestick Cove: was originally part of the Signature Properties project. They sold the parcel and approved plans for the mid…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions Seemingly Random

To Comp Or Not To Comp, Perhaps We Have An Answer

December 5, 2008

In August the sale of unit #421 at The Palms (555 4th Street) closed escrow with a reported contract price or $700,000, purchased for $789,000 in 2006. The sale was…

Listings (for sale) New Developments

Heritage Fillmore: And Then There Were Three (And Up To $350K Off)

December 5, 2008

From the last five in August (and up to $230,000 off), to the last three today (and up to $350,000 off) at Heritage on Fillmore. Oh, and 4% to the…

Bay Buildings Neighborhoods New Developments

1450 Franklin: The Proposal And “Historic” Preservationist Challenge

December 5, 2008

Designed by Frederick Meyer and currently home to Cars Dawydiak, 1450 Franklin is proposed to become a 13-story mixed-use building with 69 condominiums (10 studios, 21 one-bedrooms, and 38 two-bedrooms)…

Neighborhoods New Developments

Candlestick Condo Construction: Point Paused, Cove “Cautious”

December 5, 2008

“Work on the $240 million phase three of Top Vision Development’s Candlestick Point has come to a grinding halt, with the builder unable to secure construction financing for the waterfront…

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The Scoop: Wells Fargo Moves to 50% “Sold” In Order To Fund

December 5, 2008

The word on the street two months ago was that Wells Fargo was requiring 25% of the units in a new development be in contract or closed before they would…

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale)

Quite Simply (And Our Apologies In Advance), Cathedral Tower Wood

December 5, 2008

While the ceiling may be faux-bois, the dining room paneling is not. Nor are the views faux (although perhaps a bit larger than life) from this Cathedral Tower penthouse. ∙…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Once Again, We’ll Posit It’s Just Starting (Not To Mention Matters)

December 5, 2008

“Skittish employers slashed 533,000 jobs in November, the most in 34 years, catapulting the unemployment rate to 6.7 percent, dramatic proof the country is careening deeper into recession.” “The unemployment…

Listings (for sale)

Perhaps It’s Time For The Hard Stuff: 161-165 Collingwood Cuts Again

December 4, 2008

As a plugged-in reader notes, asking prices for the trio of “ultra chic” new construction condos at 161-165 Collingwood have been reduced for the second time (each now listed at…

Seemingly Random

Dueling Reader Comments (And Damn That Economy): En Garde!

December 4, 2008

A bit of hope: This will be the biggest buyers market in decades. Prices are down almost 10% in most of . We’ll never see this opportunity again. A bit…

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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

  9. Brahma (incensed renter) on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

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

  10. Daniel on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

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

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