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Latest Posts

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) RealRecentReductions

New Woodwork (And Price?) To Rival That Of Old: 3960 20th Street

November 26, 2008

The woodwork (“vertical grain fir to complete the turn-of-the century craftsman design”) caught our fancy. Was the recent reduction (from $2,295,000 to $1,995,000) enough to catch yours? ∙ Listing: 3960…

Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Seemingly Random

The SocketSite Penthouse Plan Challenge: From At To Over The Top

November 26, 2008

As if the floor plan and 3D rendering submitted by the Lifebox, Steel Blue and NEORAMA team to our unofficial One Rincon Hill penthouse challenge weren’t enough, they’ve taken it…

Design & Architecture Remodeling and Renovation

Behind The Facade And Renovation Of 224 Mississippi (But NFS)

November 26, 2008

Not for sale, but a chance to peek behind the façade and renovation of 224 Mississippi. ∙ Batles’ Potrero Hill home echoes the past

Neighborhoods

Eastern Neighborhoods/Candlestick Plans Yea! (Mirant Retrofit Nea!)

November 26, 2008

It was a busy week for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors as the Eastern Neighborhoods plan was unanimously approved as lending, new development and sales across the City continue…

Real Estate Resources Trends

New S&P/Case-Shiller Condo Price Index: San Francisco MSA Falling

November 25, 2008

According to the newly released S&P/Case-Shiller Condo Price Index, condo values in the San Francisco MSA fell 3.3% from August ’08 to September ’08, are down 15.0% on a year-over-year…

Just Quotes (Emphasis Added) Real Estate Economics Trends

It’s Like The Fed (And Taxpayers) Just Bought You A Couple Of Points

November 25, 2008

“U.S. mortgage rates fell more than three-quarters of a percentage point today after the Federal Reserve said it will buy as much as $600 billion of debt.” ∙ U.S. Mortgage…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale)

A Pacific Heights Apple Up In The Tree: 2155 Buchanan #9

November 25, 2008

Top floor, corner, renovated, parking and in Pacific Heights. Purchased for $1,000,000 (said with best Dr. Evil accent) in June of 2006, listed for $950,000 last week, and into our…

SocketSite Readers Report Trends

Early San Francisco Sales Numbers For November: Down Almost 50%

November 25, 2008

Last week we calculated a 38% single week decline in San Francisco listed sales volume with inventories up 28.4% year-over-year. And now according to a plugged-in reader, listed sales volume…

Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions SocketSite Readers Report Trends

Did We Mention How Much That Third Party Matters?

November 25, 2008

From the plugged-in listing agent for 835 Foerster: We received an offer several months for $855,000. It took months to negotiate this sale price with the lenders (both a 1st…

Real Estate Economics Seemingly Random Trends

“Foreign Buyers” Never Materialized And Now Tourist Dollars Decline

November 25, 2008

“The dollar’s resurgence, as well as a drop in home and stock values outside the U.S., will discourage foreign shoppers into next year as the global financial crisis intensifies, said.…

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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…

  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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