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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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Multiple Lawsuits Target San Francisco’s Central SoMa Plan

January 14, 2019

As expected, a couple of lawsuits challenging San Francisco’s recently approved Central SoMa Plan have just been filed in San Francisco’s Superior Court and more could soon follow. The first…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Plans for a Single, Taller 984-Unit Hub District Tower Picked

January 14, 2019

While plans for a pair of 41-story towers with a total of 984 residential units to rise on the former San Francisco Honda site at 10 South Van Ness were…

Apples To Apples Marin (And Points North) Neighborhoods

Stinson Beach Resale Fetches $3,347 per Foot

January 14, 2019

Purchased for $5.3 million, or roughly $3,139 per square foot, back in 2015, the 1,688-square-foot Stinson Beach home at 13 Walla Vista returned to the market at the end of…

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions Remodeling and Renovation

50 Percent Price Cut for Newly Remodeled Pac Heights Mansion

January 11, 2019

Purchased out of foreclosure for $2.525 million in 2013, the “grandly proportioned circa 1898 Victorian mansion” at 1945 Franklin Street, on the eastern edge of Pacific Heights, has since been…

Commercial Real Estate Economics Trends

Office Rents in San Francisco Ended 2018 at a Record High

January 10, 2019

Driven in part by the delivery of a record 3.7 million square feet of shiny new office space over the past year, all of which was delivered pre-leased, the average…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Rates Drop to a 9-Month Low, Application Volume Jumps

January 10, 2019

Having shed 6 basis points over the past week, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has dropped to 4.45 percent, which is 49 basis points below the 7-year…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions

Price Cuts for ‘Rarely Available,’ yet Almost New, One-Bedroom

January 9, 2019

Priced by the sales office at $1.25 million in January of 2017, the sale of the one-bedroom unit #18D within the new Lumina tower at 201 Folsom Street closed escrow…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Contemporary Conversion in the Mission Closer to Reality

January 8, 2019

As we first reported back in 2015: “Two years ago, a fire damaged the home which shares the lot with the former Iglesia del Pacto Evangelico church at 856 Capp…

As Proposed City Planning Industry Stuff Neighborhoods New Developments Trends

Newly Proposed Development Hit a 7-Year Low in SF Last Year

January 7, 2019

Having peaked at 116 in 2014, the number of newly proposed plans for major developments in San Francisco has been trending down ever since, a trend which shouldn’t catch any…

Real Estate Economics RealRecentReductions Trends

Price Cuts Up, Pending Sales Down in San Francisco

January 7, 2019

Having ended 2018 with around 36 percent more homes on the market in San Francisco than there were at the end of 2017, which is right in line with the…

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    And don't forget the simultaneous implosion of the The California College of the Arts (CCA)...guess that move to SF wasn't…

  2. The Milkshake of Despair on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval

    The Academy of Art is a reminder of what the city has lost with the San Francisco Art Institute. The…

  3. Brahma (incensed renter) on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval

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    Wound up closing at asking 39 days after the above post. Then something happened which appeared on the MLS like…

  6. Brahma (incensed renter) on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)

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  7. Notcom on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

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