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Big Reduction for Flagship Home

October 16, 2019

The unfinished designer home at 210 Laidley, which was being built for its current owner and not a developer, hit the market earlier this year with an $8.995 million price…

City Planning Neighborhoods Transit

New Timing for Future Mission Bay Ferry Landing

October 16, 2019

The Port of San Francisco is about to officially solicit bids to start dredging the Bay and build San Francisco’s future Mission Bay Ferry Landing near the intersection of Terry…

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Number of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Has Likely Peaked

October 15, 2019

Having hit an 8-year high last month, the number of homes on the market in San Francisco has since ticked up another 5 percent to 1,030, which is 6 percent…

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Giants Massive Mission Rock Development Closer to Reality as Well

October 14, 2019

As we first reported earlier this year: Mission Rock Partners, which is a Joint Venture between the San Francisco Giants and Tishman Speyer, is positioning to break ground on the…

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Proposed 800-Foot-Tall Tower Closer to Reality

October 11, 2019

Having been further refined by Pelli Clark Pelli Architects over the past year, the plans for a 61-story tower to rise up to 800 feet in height upon Transbay Parcel…

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Housing Pipeline in San Francisco Slips but Building Actually Jumps

October 11, 2019

With the number of newly built units of housing in San Francisco having outpaced the number of newly proposed units of housing to be built in San Francisco for the…

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Planning Pans ‘Degrading, Non-Subservient’ Addition in the Mission

October 11, 2019

As we first reported earlier this year, plans for a modern addition to rise atop the historic commercial building at 2965-2967 Mission Street, which Endgames Improv purchased for $2 million…

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Rejected Oakland Tower Déjà Vu

October 11, 2019

With Oakland’s Planning Commission having formally rejected plans for a proposed 460-foot-tall, and seemingly split, tower to rise on the historic King Block in Downtown Oakland last year, a move…

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Landmark “Hacker” Church Back on the Market for $7.5M

October 10, 2019

Built in 1912, the 15,000-square-foot Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 906 Broadway was designated San Francisco Landmark #204 back in 1993. The Archdiocese of San Francisco sold the church…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Rates Drop, Odds of a Rate Cut Rise

October 10, 2019

Having jumped 17 basis points in mid-September, the average rate for a 30-year mortgage has since shed 16 basis points and dropped back down to 3.57 percent, which is 133…

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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Big Reduction for Flagship Home

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Number of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Has Likely Peaked

Giants Massive Mission Rock Development Closer to Reality as Well

Proposed 800-Foot-Tall Tower Closer to Reality

Housing Pipeline in San Francisco Slips but Building Actually Jumps

Planning Pans ‘Degrading, Non-Subservient’ Addition in the Mission

Rejected Oakland Tower Déjà Vu

Landmark “Hacker” Church Back on the Market for $7.5M

Mortgage Rates Drop, Odds of a Rate Cut Rise

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