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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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Battle over Newly Approved Rincon Hill Development Rages On

July 5, 2018

The waylaid plans for a modern residential building to rise up to 84 feet in height at 430 Main/429 Beale Street were, in fact, approved by San Francisco’s Planning Commission…

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Plans to Expand and Caffeinate Reddit’s HQ in SF

July 5, 2018

Purchased for $45 million in 2016 having been leased to Reddit, plans to convert the 33,000-square-foot, 185-space parking garage portion of the original NBC Radio City building at 420 Taylor…

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Supervisors Slated to Hear City’s Ambitious Central Soma Plan

July 2, 2018

Unanimously supported by San Francisco’s Planning Commission back in May, San Francisco’s full Board of Supervisors is now slated to hear and potentially vote on the passage of the City’s…

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Big Oakland Project Slated for Approval, Mass Opposed by Alliance

July 2, 2018

From the Oakland Heritage Alliance, which echo the thoughts of the Oakland Landmark Preservation Advisory Board, with respect to the block-sized “Eastline” development that’s proposed to rise across the entire…

Commercial Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Polk Gulch Parcel on the Market, Zoned for 130 Feet in Height

July 2, 2018

The Polk Gulch parcel upon which the Natural Mattress Store and adjacent American Rug Company building sits is on the market with an $8.28 million price tag. The 1235 Sutter…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Plans for Infilling Chestnut Street

June 29, 2018

Plans to level the long-standing Wells Fargo branch building at 2055 Chestnut Street in the Marina, which was built for Crocker Bank in 1974, have been drafted. As envisioned by…

Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

Burned-Out Former Drug Den with Views Fetches Two Million Bucks

June 29, 2018

As we noted last year: Purchased for $440,000 in 1995, the Castro District duplex at 517-519 Sanchez Street has been raided numerous times over the past seven years, resulting in…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Commercial Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Waylaid Mission District Development Modified, Slated for Approval

June 28, 2018

Waylaid by a groundswell of local opposition, plans to mostly demolish the brick and timber Fitzgerald Furniture Company building on the northeast corner of 19th and Bryant Streets and develop…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Slips, Short-Term Rate Inches Up

June 28, 2018

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage slipped 2 basis points over the past week to 4.55 percent but remains 67 basis points higher on a year-over-year basis and…

Elections

San Francisco’s Certified Election Results and Key Numbers

June 28, 2018

San Francisco’s Department of Elections has just finished their final review of the 253,583 ballot cast in the June 5 election and certified the election results. With 481,991 registered voters…

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