Planning Pans Plans for Underground Sleeping Rooms
As we first outlined a few months ago, plans for a modern SRO building to rise up to 86 feet in height on the southeast corner of South Van Ness…
800-Foot-Tall Tower Slated for Planning’s Approval
San Francisco’s Planning Commission is slated to approve the refined plans for a 61-story tower to rise up to 800 feet in height at 542-550 Howard Street (a.k.a. Transbay Parcel…
Mortgage Rates Start the Year Down, Little Chance of a Hike
Having held relatively firm over the past three weeks, the average rate for a 30-year mortgage is starting the New Year at 3.73 percent, down 79 basis points (0.79 percentage…
Index for Bay Area Home Values Slips Again Despite National Gains
Having turned negative two months ago, 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…
Cool St. Paul’s Condo Effectively Fetches its 2015 Price
Purchased for $1.95 million in June of 2015, the 1,753-square-foot unit #7 in the former St Paul’s Primary School building at 300 Valley Street returned to the market priced at…
2019 Ends with Fewer Homes for Sale in SF, Pending Sales Up
With only a handful of homes having been newly listed for sale over the past week and the seasonal culling of unsold listings – most of which are likely return…
Pace of Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Rebounds
Having slipped 1.7 percent in October, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, ticked up 1.2 percent in November…
Babies Kept San Francisco’s Population from Falling in 2019
Having really slowed its roll last year, the estimated population of San Francisco proper continued to grow at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the first half of 2019…
Asking Rents Slip in San Francisco, Nearing Peak in Oakland
The weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco, including one-off rentals as well as units in larger developments, dropped a little over 5 percent over the past…
Revised Plans for Grubstake Site Closer to Reality
As we first reported back in 2015: Prior to closing escrow on his purchase of the iconic Grubstake restaurant at 1525 Pine Street, buyer Nicholas Pigott quietly engaged D-Scheme Studio…