Nearly New Two-Bedroom Fetches 3 Percent over its 2014 Price
Purchased as new for $1,016,000, or roughly $963 per square foot, back in March of 2014, the “primely” located two-bedroom, two-bath unit #415 at 8 Buchanan Street (a.k.a. Linea) returned…
Positioning to Raise the Roof in the Middle of Hayes Valley
The little four-unit building at 630 Octavia Street and its adjacent parcel, which is currently used as a parking lot, recently traded hands for what would appear to be a…
Plan to Stabilize the Sinking Millennium Tower Closer to Reality
With the initial round of testing having proven successful, the plans to permanently stabilize the sinking Millennium Tower by adding a series of 52 new piles around the tower’s perimeter…
Massive Berkeley Mansion Now Listed at a Loss
Designed by John Hudson Thomas and built for John Hopkins Spring, a real estate developer, in 1914, the 12,000-square-foot Spring Mansion which sits at 1960 San Antonio Avenue in the…
Number of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Inches Up
With the number of homes which were newly listed for sale in San Francisco over the past two weeks roughly matching the number of new purchase contracts that were written,…
Alternative Designs for Rejected Oakland Tower Revealed
With Oakland’s Planning Commission having formally rejected the plans for a proposed 460-foot-tall, and seemingly split, tower to rise at 1261 Harrison Street, on the historic King Block in Downtown…
SoMa Loft Reduced and Relisted Below its 2015 Price
Purchased for $1.185 million in December of 2015, the “modern, stylish, tri-level loft” #14 at 175 Russ Street, “located in the heart of SOMA,” with easy access to tech shuttles…
Mortgage Rates Tick Up
Having dropped 59 basis points since hitting a 7-year high of 4.94 percent this past November, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up 6 basis points over…
Plans for 20 New Condo Buildings Overlooking Candlestick Point
Plans for 20 new residential buildings to rise on a vacant 7-acre slice of land fronting Jamestown Avenue, a former Candlestick Park parking lot which overlooks the massive Candlestick Point…
Inventory of New Homes for Sale in the U.S. Hits a 10-Year High
The pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ended 2018 at a seasonally adjusted rate of 621,000 sales, down 2.4 percent on a year-over-year basis but with a…