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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

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Bubble (Or Not) Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions

Sub-2015 Priced ‘Ultra-Premium’ Condo in the Mission Reduced

October 12, 2018

Purchased for $1.625 million in mid-2015, the two-bedroom Mission District condo #205 in the “V20” building at 3590 20th Street, at the corner of Valencia, was on the market for…

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New Plans for a Prominent Van Ness Corridor Site

October 12, 2018

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 feet of retail space fronting Van…

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Refined Timing for Proposed Balboa Reservoir Redevelopment

October 11, 2018

As we first reported earlier this year: According to a draft Fiscal Responsibility report for the massive Balboa Reservoir project, the projected $560 million development, a total which doesn’t include…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Jumps, Nearing an Eight-Year High

October 11, 2018

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage jumped 18 basis points over the past two weeks to 4.90 percent, which is now 99 basis points above its mark at…

Apples To Apples Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Remodeling and Renovation

It’s Officially “Over Asking” for That Renovated Cow Hollow Home

October 10, 2018

As we wrote earlier this year: With a previously renovated kitchen which has since been renovated anew, along with a couple of other improvements, it’s not perfectly apples-to-apples. But having…

Listings (for sale) Real Estate Economics RealRecentReductions Trends

Inventory of Homes for Sale in SF Increases, Price Cuts Rise as Well

October 9, 2018

Having hit a 7-year high in September, the number of homes actively listed for sale in the San Francisco ticked up another 6.6 percent over the past month to 950…

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions

Another Cut for the Latest Showcase Home

October 9, 2018

Purchased for $8.001 million in October of 2015 and subsequently “re-imagined by some of the areas top designers,” with new fixtures and finishes throughout, the 2018 Decorator Showcase home at…

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Projected Impact of the Massive Potrero Power Station Project

October 4, 2018

The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the proposed redevelopment of the 29-acre Potrero Power Plant site – which could yield nearly 2,700 units of housing; 1.6 million square feet…

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Bonus Plans for Prominent Polk Street Site Newly Rendered

October 4, 2018

As we first reported a couple months ago: Plans to level the Out of The Closet thrift store complex on the southeast corner of Polk and California and develop a…

Bay Buildings Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

RFP Issued for Redevelopment of Fort Scott

October 3, 2018

The official Request for Proposals (RFP) has been issued to the four finalists selected to bid for the opportunity to redevelop the 30-acre Fort Winfield Scott campus in the Presidio.…

Notcom on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval
And don't forget the simultaneous implosion of the The California College of the Arts (CCA)...guess that move to SF wasn't…
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…
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…
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 -…
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…
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…
Notcom on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year
I would diagnose this type of disconnect: Ass Burgher's Syndrome
Brahma (incensed renter) on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year
Yes. You correctly understood the schtick. Business people can make up all kinds of rationalizations for their pecuniary interests that…
Daniel on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
The Chron has some numbers to put to this: They just published a rundown of office occupancy by largest tenants.…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Another Motivated Seller and Near Million Dollar Drop
San Francisco clearly isn't doing enough to be a warm, welcoming and inclusive city for elite tech founders with lots…

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