Thanks, Thoughts and Tradition
Built in 1903, the year after a new shipping canal turned the former East Bay peninsula on which it stands into the island of Alameda, the Gold Coast home at…
UCSF Campus Deemed Historic but Developers Have a Plan
The bid to formally recognize the modernist building at the center of UCSF’s 10-acre Laurel Heights campus as historic, a move which was initiated by opponents of the proposed redevelopment…
Pace of Existing Home Sales in the U.S. Ticks Up but Drops YOY
While the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. ticked up 1.4 percent in October to an annual rate of 5.22 million sales, the pace is now running…
44 Percent More Homes on the Market in SF, Sales Still Down
Having peaked at a 7-year high in the absolute last month, the inventory of homes actively listed for sale in San Francisco (870) has dropped 10 percent with typical seasonality…
Timing for New Bayfront Park Pushed Back
As we first revealed early last year: “San Francisco’s future 5.5-acre Bayfront Park, which will be bounded by a realigned Terry A. Francois Boulevard and the San Francisco Bay, between…
Asking Rents Slip in San Francisco, Jump in Oakland
Having ticked down a couple percent last month, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco – including one-off rentals as well as those in larger developments…
Plans for an Historic Renovation, Addition and Repurposing
Built for the Eng-Skell Co. (which is now known as ESCO Foods) in 1930, the three-story Art Deco building at 1035 Howard Street provided laboratory, manufacturing, warehouse and office space…
Bay Area Employment Ticks Up, Unemployment as Well
Having jumped in September, the number of people living in San Francisco with a job ticked up by another 1,800 over the past month to a record 565,700 in October…
52 Concept Proposals for San Francisco’s Historic Piers
The Port of San Francisco received 52 responses to their request for concept proposals from developers and tenants interested in redeveloping thirteen of San Francisco’s historic piers (which stretch from…
San Francisco Villa Quietly Trades for 26 Percent Less
Built on a 14,000-square-foot hilltop lot in St. Francis Wood back in 1982, the “French Style Villa Estate” at 11 San Jancinto Way traded hands for $6.25 million in June…