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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 City Planning Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Real Estate Legislation

City Aims for Adoption of Ambitious Central Soma Plan in September

August 1, 2018

With a total of sixty-four (64) amendments having been proposed by Supervisor Kim, including incentives for the construction of on-site affordable housing units, requiring developments to secure a building permit…

Bay Buildings Design & Architecture East Bay Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Refined Design for Taller Oakland Tower

July 31, 2018

With an extra 15 feet of height and an additional 19 units approved last month, the final design review for the now 452-unit tower approved to rise up to 395…

East Bay San Jose (And South) Trends

Index for Bay Area Home Values Ticks Up, Led by the Middle Again

July 31, 2018

Having ticked up a percent in April, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay…

Design & Architecture San Jose (And South)

Former Yahoo Exec’s Perch Fetches 54 Percent of Original Price

July 30, 2018

Dubbed “The Perch,” the nearly 8-acre Silicon Valley estate owned by Yahoo’s former Chief Marketing Officer in Woodside, which includes over 7,000 square feet of finished space, with a four-bedroom…

Trends

Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Inch up while Inventory Climbs

July 30, 2018

Having slipped 0.5 percent in May, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, inched up 0.9 percent in June…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

One-Bedroom at The Brannan Nearly Fetches its 2015 Price

July 30, 2018

Purchased for $975,000 in October of 2015, the“spacious and bright” unit #7G at 229 Brannan Street, a 884-square-foot one-bedroom with one and one-half baths, a private terrace and city views…

As Proposed City Planning Elections Industry Stuff Real Estate Legislation Rentals

Supervisors Aim to Cement Support for Expansion of Rent Control

July 27, 2018

If adopted by voters in November, California Proposition 10 would overturn the state’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act which prevents rent control from applying to single-family homes, condos or any multifamily…

City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods New Developments

Timing and Cost of Affordable Family Housing to Rise in Mission Bay

July 27, 2018

As we first reported earlier this year: As designed by Paulett Taggart Architects and Studio Vara for Mercy Housing, the proposed development to rise up to 74 feet in height,…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Plans to Transform Shuttered Alexandria Theater Progress

July 26, 2018

As we first reported at the end of 2016: With the redevelopment of the former parking lot parcel behind the dilapidated Alexandria Theater at 5400 Geary Boulevard underway, new plans…

East Bay Marin (And Points North) San Jose (And South) Trends

Median Price Holds but Bay Area Home Sales Drop to a 4-Year Low

July 25, 2018

The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area totaled 8,337 in June, a 9.2 percent drop in sales on a year-over-year basis and…

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