Bonus Plans for Building Up Geary Boulevard
Plans to level the Firestone Complete Auto Care shop at 2800 Geary Boulevard have been drafted. And as envisioned, a six-story building could rise on the Laurel Heights/Lone Mountain parcel,…
Transbay District Grocery Store Plans Formally Nixed
As we first reported back in 2017: It’s now been over two years since Related California cut 99 residential units from their development plans for Transbay Block 8 and reduced…
Seventh Extension for Oakland Tower Now on Tap
As we outlined last June: “Plans for a pair of residential towers to rise up to 275 feet in height at 325 Seventh Street, on the edge of Oakland’s Chinatown,…
Pace of New Home Sales in the U.S. Ticks Up, Median Price Slips
The pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ticked up 4.9 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted rate of 667,000 sales which is 0.6 percent above the…
New Plans for Prominent Van Ness Corridor Site Closer to Reality
As we first reported last year: Plans to raze the former KRON TV building at 1001 Van Ness Avenue and develop a 14-story building, with 239 condos over 5,000 square…
More Expensive Homes for Sale in San Francisco
While the total number of homes listed for sale in San Francisco slipped by a little under 4 percent to 625 over the past two weeks with typical Spring Break…
Bay Area Home Sales Rebound to an 11-Year Low
Having dropped to an absolute 11-year low in January, the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area increased 12.9 percent in February to…
Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Slip
Having ticked up 4.6 percent in January, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, slipped 1.0 percent in February…
Mortgage Rates Dramatically Drop, Inversion Spreads
With Fed officials having officially deemed the foregoing of any additional interest rate hikes in 2019 to “be best” for our economy in light of increasing global risks, which shouldn’t…
Initiative to Acquire and Transform Alcatraz Is Back
Having failed back in 2008, a ballot initiative which aims to transform Alcatraz Island into a “Global Peace and Creative Art Center” has been re-drafted and is positioning to qualify…