A Noe Valley Apple Ripens As The Orchard Expands: 1604 Castro
Purchased for $920,000 in December of 2004, a sale of 1604 Castro at the current list price of $1,050,000 would represent average annual appreciation of roughly 3.5% over the past…
U.S. New Home Sales Continue To Decline, Builder Angles For Bailout
The pace of new home sales in the U.S. were down 35 percent on a year-over-year basis last month (“the lowest annual rate since the 1991 recession”) led by a…
The Development Of 1301 Divisadero: A Plugged-In Reader Reports
A plugged-in tipster reports that the development of 1301 Divisadero (corner of Ellis) “seems to have started construction.” From our tipster: On Sept 11, 2008 they received permits (#200805051285) to…
Transbay Terminal Moves Forward, But Payments And Terms Change
The winning $350 million bid by the Hines/Pelli Clarke Pelli team to develop San Francisco’s new Transbay terminal and tower has been cut to $235 million “but would require the…
350 Mission Street Scoop Redux: Building Website Live
As we wrote two months ago: A plugged-in tipster delivers a rendering of the SOM/Craig Hartman design to compliment the scoop on 350 Mission Street, a 27-story green tower that’s…
Cow Hollow Contemporary (And Apparent Foreclosure): 215 Moulton
As a plugged-in tipster notes, 215 Moulton “in the heart of Cow Hollow” appears to have been bought back by the bank with a loan balance of $1,893,000 this past…
Listed Inventory (Up) And Sales (Down) Mini-Update: 9/23/08
A more complete update next week, but active listed inventory in San Francisco crossed the 1,600 mark for the first time in at least three years last weekend (now up…
Two Different Perspectives, One Marina Block And An Oasis Of Green
Two different perspectives, one Marina block. Looking west-ish from out front of 147-149 Alhambra above. Looking east-ish across 143-149 Alhambra below. Kudos to the owners for this little oasis of…
Multiple Offers (With A Little Different Flavor) In District Nine
With “7 offers received” it’s sounding a little bit like 2004 down in District 9 for 69 Clementina #202. Of course that “awaiting final lender approval” line belies what might…
Let’s Just Pretend It Was A Three (And Possibly Four) Day Weekend…
The good news, more people than ever are plugged-in. The bad news, our hosting company isn’t too happy about the additional load and unexpectedly bumped us to an “auxiliary” server…