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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)

A Designer Remodel Of A Relatively New Penthouse: 255 Berry #708

September 2, 2008

It’s the wood paneled ceiling and wide plank floors that first caught our attention, it’s the multiple balconies, southwest exposure, and completely overhauled kitchen (and baths) that kept it. ∙…

New Developments Seemingly Random

The One Rincon Hill Secondary Market Drops A Data Point (Or Not)

September 2, 2008

From the listing for One Rincon Hill (425 1st Street) #1606 almost three months ago: asking $1,232,000. From the listing when reduced to $1,120,000: “Offers by 7/30 please.” From the…

Trends

SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory Update: 9/02/08

September 2, 2008

As expected, inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco fell 3.7% over the past two weeks (versus an average of 7.5% over the prior two…

Neighborhoods

JustQuotes: Putting A Piazza To Complement The Pizza In North Beach

September 2, 2008

“A faction of North Beach neighbors may oppose plans to close a section of Mason Street to build a new library and park, but it is not the only potential…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale)

Same Location And Size (And For The Most Part Price) As In 2005

September 2, 2008

Purchased for $633,000 in October of 2005, this Telegraph Hill single-family “cottage” failed to find a buyer when it was listed for $779,000 eighteen months ago. Back on the market…

Apples To Apples

To Comp Or Not To Comp, The Question Of More Than The Day

August 28, 2008

Purchased for $789,000 in 2006, unit #421 at The Palms (555 4th Street) hit the market four months ago with a list price of $868,000. Unable to find a buyer,…

Listings (for sale)

St. Regis Penthouse Asking $70M: Is San Francisco All Growns Up?

August 28, 2008

Purchased for roughly $30,000,000 as a raw shell in 2005, local real estate developer Victor MacFarlane’s penthouse atop the St. Regis has been three years in the making. And while…

About SocketSite™

Summertime, And The Living Is Easy (At Least At SocketSite HQ)

August 27, 2008

The market has slowed (even more) and people are traveling, so it’s once again time for SocketSite “summer hours” (or rather “end of summer” hours). Don’t be surprised by sparse…

New Developments

Argenta (1 Polk) Update: Now Coming First Quarter 2009

August 27, 2008

The word on the street is that pace of construction for Argenta (1 Polk) has slowed slightly and the sales office now isn’t planning on opening until the first quarter…

SocketSite Readers Report

Surviving The Bad (And Other Peoples’ Foreclosures) In San Francisco

August 27, 2008

First and foremost, the proper perspective from a plugged-in reader in San Francisco: Life is about enjoying the good, but it’s also about surviving the bad. I’m sure there will…

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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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