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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
As Proposed Bay Buildings Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Plans for New Polk Gulch Tower Formalized

October 29, 2018

A formal application to raze the vacant two-story building at 925 O’Farrell Street, which had previously been home to Thai Stick Shabu Shabu, and develop a skinny 14-story tower upon…

Listings (for sale) Real Estate Economics RealRecentReductions Trends

Inventory Peaks in San Francisco, Price Cuts on the Rise

October 29, 2018

With the number of homes actively listed for sale in the San Francisco hovering around 960, the 7-year high it hit last week, inventory levels appear to have peaked for…

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The Latest Timing and Budget for 157 Affordable Apartments to Rise

October 26, 2018

The financing to build 157 below market rate (BMR) rental units upon the former Phoenix Continuation High School site turned Mission District Navigation Center at 1950 Mission Street is now…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods

High-Tech Noe Home Back on the Market

October 26, 2018

The “High-Tech Noe Home” at 525 28th Street hit the market as new for $3.6 million in June of 2014 and sold for $3.65 million that July. Designed by EE…

East Bay Real Estate Economics Rentals Trends

Asking Rents in San Francisco and Oakland Slip

October 25, 2018

Having ticked up a little over 1 percent from the second to third quarter of this year, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco – including…

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Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Inch Up, Remain down vs 2017

October 25, 2018

Having dropped 1.8 percent in August, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, inched up 0.5 percent in September…

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Modern Mid-Market Loft Now Listed Below its 2014 Price

October 24, 2018

Purchased for $1.75 million in October of 2014, the “modern and sleek” unit #5 in The Silver Building, a full-floor loft conversion with exposed beams, eleven foot ceilings, high-end finishes…

Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods New Developments Rentals

Redevelopment of Iconic Tenderloin Site Positioning to Break Ground

October 24, 2018

The building permits for the approved eight-story building to rise on the northwest corner of Turk and Larkin, upon the site of the iconic Kahn & Keville tire and battery…

Bubble (Or Not) Real Estate Economics Trends

New Home Sales in the U.S. Drop with Inventory at a 9-Year High

October 24, 2018

Having actually dropped a downwardly revised 3.0 percent in August, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. dropped another 5.5 percent in September to an…

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Refined Plans for 18-Story Berkeley Development Slated for Approval

October 23, 2018

With the architects (WRNS Studio) having eliminated the previously proposed fabric of screens/shutters to adorn the development’s façade, the refined plans for a contemporary 18-story building to rise up to…

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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

    Here we are, more than six years later, and in a story datelined May 11, 2026 (Academy of Art sells…

  4. Notcom on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)

    Noted. But of course I'm more interested in (what passes for) journalism over at the 'Standard'": consider this remarkable -…

  5. Brahma (incensed renter) on Coveted LEED Condo Listed Below its 2015 Price

    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)

    And 12 years and 8 months later, brought to market asking $35 million only to be removed 122 days after…

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

    I would diagnose this type of disconnect: Ass Burgher's Syndrome

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    Yes. You correctly understood the schtick. Business people can make up all kinds of rationalizations for their pecuniary interests that…

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    The Chron has some numbers to put to this: They just published a rundown of office occupancy by largest tenants.…

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