No Pop (But No Appreciation?)
While it’s an “old” speech (February ’06), it’s still a good one. Christopher Thornburg, senior economist at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, offers his perspective on whether the recent cooling…
Families Are Fleeing
While babies are booming in San Francisco, “school enrollment is slipping, and the city’s school-age population is sliding.” Why? Families are fleeing the city in search of larger abodes, yards,…
We’ve Added “Fantastic” To The List
Not “Dramatic”, “Drastic”, “Big”, “Major”, or “Huge”; but rather a “FANTASTIC PRICE REDUCTION!” for 65 Saint Germain (reduced by $625,000 (11.1%) and now listed at an even $5,000,000). Update: A…
Victorian By Definition
A reader almost reaches the end of his rope while pursuing the listing for 39 Chattanooga (“a historic Victorian fixer”) and writes, “Whatever is Victorian about this…BOX…escapes me !!” We…
SFLuxe Catches The Quote
“You need to have $800 million to see it,” says David Barrett . . . “And at least once a week, we get a prospective buyer who has that.” (“It”…
Rincon Towers Going Condo
Not so much a rumor as a confirmation – it appears that the Rincon Towers apartment building at 88 Howard has finally been sold (but to Beacon Capital out of…
A Classic Case Of Tower Envy?
All of a sudden the Rincon Hill towers (400/350 feet) just don’t seem quite so tall (or towering). “A 1,000-foot tower, as well as two 800-foot towers, were proposed Thursday…
C.A.R. Reports For April ‘06
According to the California Association of Realtors, the median price of a single-family detached home in the San Francisco Bay area is up 2.9% year-over-year while the pace of sales…
Build It Green
Build It Green is a “professional non-profit membership organization whose mission is to promote healthy, energy and resource-efficient buildings in California.” The organization offers workshops, green home tours (next tour…
From Bull To Bear?
You could actually hear the collective nodding of heads when Christopher Mayer, an economics professor at Columbia University, referred to San Francisco as a “superstar” city and argued that “land…