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“Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke urged using more taxpayer funds for new efforts to prevent home foreclosures, saying the private sector is incapable of coping with the crisis on…
∙ From Graffiti Canvas To Apartment Campus: PHSH Breaking Ground
““With all this oil money in the region, I thought the Dubai property market would be secure from the global problems,” the 30-year-old Bentley owner said, reached on his mobile…
Another $600,000 (10%) has been cut from the list price for the staged penthouse shell resale atop San Francisco’s Ritz-Carlton Residences, now asking $5,395,000. That’s $1,105,000 less than was being…
“What we’ve seen since mid to late September is that business activity has shut down, along with the consumer,” Stephen Gallagher, chief economist at Societe Generale in New York, said…
In 2004 Forest City Development was awarded the Presidio’s Public Health Service Hospital project to redevelop the long abandoned and graffiti filled building into apartments. The non-historic wings of Building…
While mortgage application volume surged 112 percent last week following the Fed’s “we pay cash for your debt” announcement, refi’s accounted for the bulk of the movement jumping 203 percent…
In the words of a plugged-in tipster two days ago, “The empty lot where Flora Grubb used to be on Guerrero at 23rd is being excavated as we speak!” (Or…
San Francisco’s Central Subway project received final environmental clearance last week while Muni’s Board of Directors approved the management contract. Groundbreaking in 2010, and the first ride in 2016, if…
An observant tipster notices the application to demolish the Thai House Restaurant on the corner of Market and 15th streets (2200-2210 Market to be exact). As proposed, the single story…