Timing for Approved Tower About to Be Pushed Back
While the plans for a 40-story, and now 319-unit tower to rise up to 420 feet in height at the intersection of Market, Oak and Van Ness Avenue were approved…
Proposed Navigation Center on Post Closer to Reality
With the support of Supervisor Peskin, the formal application to convert the top two floors of the shuttered House of Fans building at 888 Post Street, at the corner of…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Drops to a 13-Week Low
Having started the year down, the average rate for a 30-year mortgage dropped another 8 basis points over the past week to 3.64 percent, which is now 81 basis points…
Plans for a Palace-Adjacent Home Hit a Historic Snag
As we first outlined a little over a year ago: Hidden behind the Avila Ocean Adventures LLC, a former Facebook engineer turned tech investor purchased the three-bedroom home at 3600…
The Framework for a Modern Addition (And Neighbor’s Ire)
Plans for a modern addition to the existing setback, three-unit building at 254 Roosevelt Way have been in the works for nearly two years. As designed by The Open Workshop,…
How to sell a Prime Presidio Heights Home in Just One Day
The remodeled 6,245-square-foot home at 3530 Washington Street, “on one of the finest blocks in Presidio Heights,” appears to have been priced in late 2018 and was officially listed for…
A High-End Rent Versus Buy (At a Sub-2018 Price)
While not recorded on the MLS, the three-bedroom unit #60A at 181 Fremont Street appears to have been purchased for $5,772,672 in May of 2018 based on a review of…
Outer Mission Rising as Envisioned and Infilled
Plans to raze the two older buildings at 4716-4722 Mission Street, which technically sit on the border of Mission Terrace and the Excelsior, between Leo and Ruth and within the…
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Refined Plans for Redevelopment of Historic Tres Site
While Planning balked at the proposed approach for securing two separate office allocations for the redevelopment of the historic Central SoMa building at 130 Townsend Street, which is currently home…
An “Over Asking” Sale in the Award-Winning YBL Building
Purchased for $1.235 million in July of 2018, the penthouse-level unit #903 in the award-winning Yerba Buena Lofts building at 855 Folsom Street features two bedrooms, two baths, 1,230 square…