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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
Neighborhoods New Developments SocketSnaps

Avalon At Mission Bay Phase III (240 Berry) Rises Up Aside Arterra

August 15, 2008

While Arterra has opened its doors, the third phase of Avalon at Mission Bay (240 Berry) rises across the street. And for those who don’t already know, the design of…

QuickLinks Seemingly Random

QuickLinks: San Francisco Gets Less Surreal, Goldman More Mortal

August 15, 2008

∙ Carol Lloyd bids Surreal Estate Good-bye ∙ Goldman, JPMorgan May Prove ‘Mortal’ as Earnings Drop, UBS Says

East Bay Seemingly Random

When Being “Priced Out Of The Market” Is A Blessing In Disguise

August 15, 2008

A first-time buyer across the bay picks up a “three-bedroom, two-bath house in East Oakland, for $199,500. The previous owner had paid $475,000.” Perhaps being “priced out of the market”…

Listings (for sale)

723 Bay Street Returns After Five Months (And Asking $155,000 More)

August 15, 2008

723 Bay Street hit the market in October of 2007 with a list price of $2,150,000 (which was subsequently reduced). And according to the MLS (and a plugged-in tipster), the…

Just Quotes (Emphasis Added) Rentals Trends

San Francisco Landlord Foreclosures: Tenant PSA And Growing Trend

August 15, 2008

“State and local laws prohibit landlords from evicting tenants or shutting off utilities , but not all renters are aware of the rules, and not all of the entities that…

Commercial

A Jonathan Borofsky Rises At 555 Mission (And 535 Is On Its Way)

August 14, 2008

It’s a plugged-in tipster that first notes the Jonathan Borofsky sculpture being installed in the plaza of 555 Mission. And the status of 535 Mission two months ago: “The workers…

New Developments

Affordable Family Housing Rising (And Rendered) At 10th And Mission

August 14, 2008

Having broken ground in August of 2007 and rising, the soon to be 12-story building on the northeast corner of 10th and Mission should be completed by August of 2009.…

Listings (for sale) Seemingly Random

It Might Be Time To Adjust That Algorithm (And A Few Expectations)

August 14, 2008

It’s a fully detached single-family ‘total fixer’ in Bayview. It’s listed at $149,000. The current “zestimate?” $519,000. Keep in mind that it is a probate sale and we don’t yet…

Design & Architecture

3778 Washington Exposed! (At Least As It Looked In 1953)

August 14, 2008

Don’t get us wrong, we love all the greenery (and lack of power lines and poles), it just makes it so damn hard to admire the architecture. And as a…

Trends

U.S. Home Resale Rate Falls To Ten Year Low (Again)

August 14, 2008

From Bloomberg last month: Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell in June to the lowest level in a decade as tumbling real- estate prices and consumer confidence signal no…

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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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