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Looking for (Another) Sub-2014 Priced High-End Loft?

December 4, 2019

Purchased for $2.15 million in the second quarter of 2014, the 2,018-square-foot live/work unit #602 in the historic Hales Warehouse building at 2 Mint Plaza returned to the market priced…

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Shadows Threaten Plans for Proposed Tower

December 3, 2019

San Francisco’s Planning Department has finished their preliminary assessment of the plans to raze San Francisco’s aging Fire Station 13 at 530 Sansome Street, along with the two adjacent parcels…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Industry Stuff Trends

“Over Asking” at The Ritz (But at a Real Big Loss)

December 2, 2019

As we outlined earlier this year: Purchased as new for $1.53 million, or roughly $1,284 per square foot, in early 2008, right as the Great Recession was picking up steam,…

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More HOPE for Hunters View

December 2, 2019

Having kicked-off back in 2010, the third and final phase of San Francisco’s 22-acre Hunters View public housing redevelopment includes the construction of two new buildings along the neighborhood’s new…

Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions Remodeling and Renovation

Fully Remodeled and Striking a Thanksgiving Pose

November 28, 2019

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 notoriety for having played the…

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Pace of Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Drops

November 27, 2019

Having ticked up 1.5 percent in September, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, dropped 1.7 percent in October…

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Index for Bay Area Home Values Drops Despite Gains Nationwide

November 26, 2019

Having turned negative last month, 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 Peninsula…

Breaking News City Planning Neighborhoods

Judge Denies Request to Block Navigation Center

November 25, 2019

Having been denied a restraining order to halt construction of the temporary Navigation Center which is being assembled upon the Port’s parking lot parcel known as Seawall Lot 330, adjacent…

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Bonus Plans for Building Up Post Street

November 25, 2019

Plans to raze the 4-story office building at 2233 Post Street, between Scott and Divisadero in Lower Pac Heights, are in the works. And while the site is principally only…

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(Partial) Conversion of SF Design Center Slated for Approval

November 25, 2019

While plans to convert the (newly) landmarked San Francisco Design Center building at 2 Henry Adams into tech space and lease the building to Pinterest were thwarted back in 2014,…

Fact on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
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Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern Noe Valley Compound Now Listed for 33 Percent Less
152 days after after the revised listing mentioned in the penultimate paragraph above, 1647 Sanchez's listing was removed from the…
Brahma (incensed renter) on “Full(er) House” Home Back on the Market
Sold for 7.7 percent under asking. From India Roby at Architectural Digest, yesterday, in a story headlined The Full House…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops
Apparently, developers believe that S.F. doesn't have enough office space. But the vacancy rate is rising. According to an article…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Construction of Prominent Hub District Tower Has Commenced
Might have been underway when the above was posted, but we weren't kept plugged-in. Lendlease’s tower to rise at 30…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern New Development Fails to Sell, Taken Back by The Bank
Grubber2 pretty much nailed it. Sold by Avidbank to HSH Holdings for $14 million, or about 13.6 percent under the…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality
My bad. Even realtor dot com is now showing that correct amount in its listing. I should have not taken…
steve on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality
I think someone mistyped the HOA fees. Redfin is now showing that as $1,764/mo. It doesn't change your main point,…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
It's not all bad at The Millennium Tower, and we can take a look at the unit namelinked above by…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality
Not only has the building — now dubbed Crescent Nob Hill — been completed since the above post, but certain…

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Looking for (Another) Sub-2014 Priced High-End Loft?

“Over Asking” at The Ritz (But at a Real Big Loss)

More HOPE for Hunters View

Fully Remodeled and Striking a Thanksgiving Pose

Pace of Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Drops

Index for Bay Area Home Values Drops Despite Gains Nationwide

Judge Denies Request to Block Navigation Center

Bonus Plans for Building Up Post Street

(Partial) Conversion of SF Design Center Slated for Approval

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