Upper Market Street Site In Play, Zoned for More Height
The two-story, roughly 16-foot-tall building at 1930 Market Street, which is currently home to UCSF’s Alliance Health Project (AHP), the lease for which is nearing the end of its term,…
Index for Bay Area House Values Jumps, Up 15.1 Percent YOY
Having climbed 3.3 percent in March, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay and…
Vacancy Rate in Oakland Drops, Rents Poised to Tick Up
The weighted average asking rent for an apartment in Oakland has been holding at around $2,300 a month over the past few weeks, which is up around 2 percent from…
Inventory Levels in San Francisco Tick Up to a Six-Month High
With the number of homes that were newly listed for sale in San Francisco over the past week having outpaced the number of purchase contracts that were written, the net…
The Memorial at Harvey Milk Plaza 2.0
Incorporating years of community feedback and thought, the preliminary design for an upgraded Harvey Milk Plaza and Memorial at the intersection of Castro and Market Streets have been rendered by…
Skinny 13-Story Polk Gulch Building on the Boards
Plans for a skinny, 13-story building to rise up to 130 feet in height on the northwest corner of Polk and Olive, across from the Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theater site,…
Refined Plans for Decaying Historic Block Closer to Reality
With the mandated Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed redevelopment of the decaying Portola District block at 770 Woolsey Street having effectively confirmed Planning’s proposed approach to mitigating the…
Eviction Moratoriums Extended [UPDATED]
With over 6 million households in the U.S. still in arrears on their rents, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just extended the federal moratorium on evictions, which…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Inches Back Over 3 Percent
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has inched up 9 basis points (0.09 percentage points) over the past week to 3.02 percent, which is the highest average rate…
Plans for Big Dolores Heights Infill Home Challenged
As we outlined earlier this year: Purchased for $6.5 million, or a breathless “$6,069 per square foot,” back in May of 2018, plans to raze the existing 1,071-square-foot home on…