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Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops Asking Rents in San Francisco Are Ticking Up, But… Benchmark Mortgage Rate Poised to Inch Down Asking Rents in Oakland Tick Up, Down Year-Over-Year Index Versus Reality for Another “Over Asking!” Sale
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Now Listed for Over 40 Percent Under Its 2015 Price at the Ritz

October 1, 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,…

As Proposed Bay Buildings City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Revised Plans for Tower to Rise on Fire Station Site

October 1, 2019

While Related California is moving forward with plans to raze San Francisco’s aging Fire Station 13 at 530 Sansome Street in order to make room for a 200-foot-tall, mixed-use tower…

Bay Buildings City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Plans to Transform Tenderloin Block Even Closer to Reality

September 30, 2019

Plans to redevelop the Tenderloin parcel upon which the columned Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist sits at 450 O’Farrell Street were approved last September, with designs for a new 13-story,…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Number of Homes on the Market in San Francisco Ticks Up

September 30, 2019

Having hit an 8-year high in the absolute last week, the number of homes on the market in San Francisco has ticked up another 3 percent to 1,010 and remains…

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Bay Area Home Sales and Median Price Trend Down

September 27, 2019

The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area dropped 2.3 percent from July to 7,247 August, which was down nearly 6 percent on…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Revised Plans for New SRO Project Slated for Approval

September 27, 2019

As we first outlined earlier this year: Plans to raze the white two-story garage/warehouse building at 262 7th Street, adjacent to Sightglass Coffee, between Folsom and Howard, are in the…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Marin (And Points North) RealRecentReductions

Big Swinging in Sausalito Returns, Reduced

September 26, 2019

Designed by Michael Rex Associates and featured on the American Institute of Architects tour of Marin in 2012, as we wrote about the modern three-level Sausalito home at 525 Bridgeway…

Bay Buildings Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions

Official Cuts for a Pair of Penthouse Shells

September 26, 2019

As we first noted two months ago: Technically it’s not a price cut, the prevalence of which has been on the rise in San Francisco, as the list price for…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Rates Retreat

September 26, 2019

Having jumped 17 basis points last week, the average rate for a 30-year mortgage has since shed 9 basis points and now measures 3.64 percent, which is 108 basis points…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Unlike in San Francisco, Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Tick Up

September 26, 2019

Having dipped 2.5 percent in July, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, ticked up 1.6 percent in August…

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  1. Fact on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

    What's the status update on socket site? AI chatbots still on strike?

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. 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…

  8. 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,…

  9. 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…

  10. 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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