Plans for Pyramid Adjacent Redevelopment Closer to Reality
While likely drafted to sweeten the pot for Aegon’s $700 million sale of the iconic Transamerica Pyramid, Redwood Park and the two other office buildings on the block, the plans…
Former Armory on Ellis Slated to Be Auctioned
As we outlined in mid-2018: Built to serve as an armory for the National Guard around 1906, and on the market for $9.9 million in 2017, the asking price for…
Macy’s Shuttering Dot-Com HQ in SF, Expanding in Atlanta
While Macy’s is shuttering its 243,000-square-foot dot-com space at 680 Folsom Street in San Francisco, which is currently home to around 1,000 macys.com employees and contractors, the company isn’t reducing…
Neighbors Challenge Plans for “Incompatible” Mansion
As we first revealed back in November of 2017: Purchased as an oceanfront “fixer” for $11 million in April of 2015, plans to demolish the existing 4,600-square-foot home at 178…
Depreciated Mission District Penthouse Returns
Purchased for $2.595 million or roughly $1,433 per square foot in July of 2015, the three-bedroom penthouse unit #504 atop the Mission District development at 3590 20th and Valencia Street…
Plan for Massive Oyster Point Redevelopment Closer to Reality
With the first phase of Kilroy Reality’s massive Oyster Point development underway, Kilroy’s precise plan for the remaining four phases of the 31-acre project, which has been entitled but still…
Another Cut for the Fully Remodeled “Full House” Home
As we outlined last year: Designed by Charles Lewis Hinkel and built in 1883, the Lower Pacific Heights Victorian at 1709 Broderick Street, or at least its façade, gained widespread…
There Were 365 Tenant Buyouts in SF Last Year, One Hit $325K
Landlords in San Francisco negotiated and inked a total of 365 legally reported buyout agreements with tenants last year, as mapped above, down slightly from 379 in 2018. For the…
Asking Rents Inch Up in San Francisco, Slip in Oakland
Having dropped a little over 5 percent at the end of last year, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco, including one-off rentals as well as…
Re-Approved Development in Play (Save Its Penthouse Unit)
Purchased for $2.75 million in 2005 with approved plans for a 13-story, 41-unit residential building to rise on the site, the two-story commercial building which had occupied the 7,000-square-foot parcel…