Context for a Recent 25 Percent Over Asking Sale
We first took note of the well-designed unit #1 at 236 States Street back in 2008, a few years before it was marketed as a short-sale near the bottom of…
Major NoPa Redevelopment Slated for Approval
In the works since mid-2015, plans to level the Divisadero Touchless Carwash and Roy’s Shell station on the corner of Divisadero and Oak and develop a six-story building upon the…
Bay Area Employment Really Drops, Unemployment Rate as Well
While the unemployment rate in San Francisco returned to a record low 2.1 percent last month, the drop was driven by a reduction in the size of the labor force…
Wiener’s Big Housing Bill (SB 50) Shelved Anew
Following in the footsteps of Senator Scott Wiener’s original “transit-rich housing bonus” Bill 827 which was killed last year, Wiener’s follow-up bill, Senate Bill 50 (SB 50), which would allow…
Another Mission District Addition on the Boards
Technically zoned for Production, Distribution and Repair (PDR) uses, special permission for Gus’s Community Market to open on the corner of Harrison and 17th Street, on the first floor of…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Dips, Odds of an Easing Jumps
The average rate for a 30-year mortgage shed 7 basis points over the past two weeks to 4.07 percent, an average rate which is now 54 basis points lower than…
Plans for a Skinny 300-Foot-Tall Tower to Rise Right Here
As we first reported a little over two years ago: Built in 1922, the narrow two-story building at 570 Market Street, which also fronts Sutter Street and is currently home…
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Former Facebook COO Lists Palo Alto Home for $40M
Purchased by Owen Van Natta, the onetime Facebook COO and former executive at MySpace, Zynga and Amazon, for $9.0 million in June of 2011, the gated Palo Alto neo-Tudor which…
Proposers of Presidio Redevelopment Given Another Chance to Pitch
With the singular proposal to redevelop the 30-acre Fort Winfield Scott campus in the Presidio having been thoroughly panned by the staff of the Presidio Trust, as we first reported…
Plans for Building up in Hayes Valley Don’t Raise Any Red Flags
As we first reported earlier this year: The little four-unit building at 630 Octavia Street and its adjacent parcel, which is currently used as a parking lot, recently traded hands…