Supersized Plans for North Beach Factory Site Rendered Anew
As we first reported earlier this month, bigger plans to redevelop the iconic Buon Gusto Sausage Factory building at 535 Green Street – which was once the largest sausage and…
Bay Area Home Sales and Median Price Were Down, Again
While the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area inched up 0.5 percent from June to just over 7,400 in July, sales were…
Revised Plans for Cursed Van Ness Corridor Corner Approved, But…
The revised plans for a seven-story building to rise up to 70 feet in height on the southeast corner of Pacific and Van Ness, as newly rendered by Ian Birchall…
Pending Home Sales in the US Drop
Despite mortgage rates having dropped to a near three-year low, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, dropped 2.5…
Different Drivers Pushing Average Rents up in SF and Oakland
The weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco, including one-off rentals as well as units in larger developments, has inched up to around $4,350 per month, which…
Height of Proposed Tower(s) Likely to Be Reduced
As we first revealed last month, bonus plans for a 245-unit residential building to rise up to 294 feet in height on the northwest corner of Harrison and Hawthorne have…
Indexed Appreciation for Bay Area Homes Drops to Under a Percent
Having inched up 0.3 percent in May, 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…
Price for the “Most Expensive Home in San Francisco” Reduced
Priced at $45 million last year, which was misreported by some as being “the most expensive home ever listed” in San Francisco, “Residence 950” at 950 Lombard Street – which…
Mission District Corner in Play
Plans to convert the former used car lot turned Firepie parcel on the northeast corner of Valencia and Cesar Chavez have been drafted. And as envisioned by Kerman Morris Architects,…
House of Light Returns Listed for a Million More
Having hit the market priced at $8.5 million in 2016, the award-winning “House of Light,” which was designed by the late modernist architect John Thodos and built on a wooded…