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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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