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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
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San Francisco Affordability: Is C.A.R.’s New Reality Already Old?

August 20, 2008

According to the California Association of Realtors and their First Time Buyer Housing Affordability Index, 23% of San Francisco households can currently afford to purchase a home priced at 85%…

Trends

San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity In July: Up 8.0% YOY

August 19, 2008

According to DataQuick, home sales volume in San Francisco rose 8.0% on a year-over-year basis last month (609 recorded sales in July ’08 versus 564 sales in July ‘07) and…

Neighborhoods New Developments Rentals

555 Mission Rock: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow (And A Recap)

August 19, 2008

The quick recap for 555 Mission Rock in south Mission Bay: 192 apartments ranging in size from 650 to 1,300 square feet (and 10,000 square feet of ground floor retail).…

New Developments RealRecentReductions

The Hayes (55 Page): Current Pricing, Incentives And A Reduction

August 19, 2008

Current list prices for The Hayes (55 Page) above. And while developers do prefer to offer “incentives” (currently “up to” $25,000 at The Hayes, up from $20,000 in March) rather…

Coming Soon

Then And Now And Coming Soon: 1391 Clayton Street By The Numbers

August 18, 2008

Not yet officially listed (nor inventory), but coming soon and testing the waters at a price of $2,795,000. The all new 1391 Clayton Street boasts one wine cellar, two decks…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale)

Four Years Of District 4 Equity Yet Pre-Foreclosure After Four Months

August 18, 2008

Purchased for $1,750,000 in May of 2004, 10 Fernwood Drive in Monterey Heights returned to the market almost four months ago asking the same. Three months ago the list price…

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JustQuotes: Potential For Below-Market-Rate Housing Priority

August 18, 2008

“Descendants of people displaced during the redevelopment of San Francisco’s Western Addition and Hunters Point decades ago would be given first priority for the city’s affordable housing under a measure…

Listings (for sale)

Buying Two Of Four For Under Five (37 Tioga Avenue)

August 18, 2008

We’re not buying the “ in a lifetime opportunity” or “below market price.” But we are buying the “clean” (and that the garden “needs TLC”). Purchased for $635,000 in February…

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JustQuotes: Sue Hestor Speaks Bluntly, But Developers “Cheated?”

August 18, 2008

“Live-work owners have been whining that their neighborhoods lack parks, when it was the developers who built their homes that cheated the city.” (No work in many S.F. live-work lofts;…

Trends

SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory Update: 8/18/08

August 18, 2008

Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco fell 4.3% over the past two weeks (which is typical in the weeks leading up to Labor day)…

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  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…

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    The Chron has some numbers to put to this: They just published a rundown of office occupancy by largest tenants.…

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