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Designed by William Wurster in 1949, renovated by Sandy Walker in 1996, and last sold on 1/13/2004 with a reported contract price of $3,383,500 (listed for $3,995,000), 27 Raycliff (previously…
A year ago Friday the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate to 4.5% and signaled that further cuts were unlikely. The thought at the time: “Today’s action, combined with…
San Francisco Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval’s anti-blight legislation was unanimously adopted by the Board of Supervisors yesterday. And once again: The law empowers city officials to hit property owners with up…
It’s now “official” and in the open. The construction of One Rincon Hill’s second tower has been indefinitely put on hold. And roughly 30% of tower one inventory has yet…
After an effective 1000+ days on the market, a few reductions, and a remodeling, the listing for Kirk Hammett’s Pacific Heights mansion at 2505 Divisadero has been withdrawn from the…
With Argenta (One Polk) on the market as an apartment building, and a reader suggesting that The Artani (818 Van Ness) might just follow suit (in terms of going rental),…
According to the August 2008 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index (pdf), single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA fell 3.5% from July ’08 to August ’08 and are down 27.3%…
Mayor Gavin Newsom’s proposal to retrofit Potrero Hill’s Mirant Power Plant appears to have run out of steam as Supervisors Sophie Maxwell and Aaron Peskin acting as members of the…
It might still be wrapped in scaffolding, but applications are now available for the 131 Below Market Rate (BMR) condos that will compose Mission Walk (330/335 Berry Street). 25 one,…
We hereby award “Satchel” the official bragging rights for backing into the previous purchase price for 355 1st Street #S2003 at The Metropolitan (around $825,000). While we’ll let “phatty” and…