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Our piece on 1001 California resurrected the name Vincent Friia, a flamboyant fixture of a bygone era in San Francisco (and its real estate). A reader recollects (slightly edited for…
“A wall of high-rise office towers will stretch southeast from San Francisco’s downtown along Fourth Street to the emerging Mission Bay business and biotechnology research hub under a new long-term…
It’s not our usual fare, and it’s a bit outside our wheelhouse (at least this month), but we do aim to please. Plus it’s Friday, it’s hot (did you notice…
The unemployment rate in California jumped 0.6 perentage point in May to 6.8%, “the largest one-month increase since the state began keeping records in 1976.” The San Fransciso MSA, however,…
Earlier this week on SocketSite: Our thoughts on the listing for 1083 Hollister seventeen months ago (listed for $499,000 at the time). A take-charge (which we love) reader’s survey of…
“Menlo Park-based Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capital firms, has agreed to lease the top floor of the office tower Tishman Speyer is building at 555…
We’ve always loved the William Randolph Hearst-built Beaux-Arts building at 1001 California Street, both in terms of location and style. And as far as we know, the 3,500 square foot…
While “Operation Malicious Mortgage” has nabbed over 400 individuals over the past three months, none of the mortgage-fraud related arrests have occured in the Bay Area. Then again, it has…
Rumor has it that the grand Queen Anne at 719 Ashbury was once home to anarchists and Hell’s Angels (although not at the same time). Today, the remodeled home is…
Another trophy home on Vallejo is on the market (but not the MLS). “Built in 1928 for the Gilmore steel family and designed by John H. Powers,” 2950 Vallejo has…