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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 Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Bonus Plans to Level and Redevelop This Historical Resource Site

June 4, 2018

As we first reported eight months ago: “The two-story concrete building at 220 9th Street, which is home to Desmoto Sport, Hop.in and a number of other businesses in the…

City Planning Neighborhoods New Developments

New Timing for Navigation Centers and Their Redevelopment

June 4, 2018

Originally slated to be shuttered in the second quarter of the year, which “would leave the community with a vacant, inactive, and unsecured lot that would become a blight to…

City Planning Neighborhoods Real Estate Legislation Remodeling and Renovation Rentals

An Audit of SF’s Accessory Dwelling Unit Program to Date

June 1, 2018

Discretely enacted in 2014, rolled out across the entire city in 2016, and expanded to increase flexibility for the inclusion of single-family homes in 2017, San Francisco’s Accessory Dwelling Unit…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions Trends

Dolores Park Hive Now Listed at a Larger Loss and Plying Crypto

June 1, 2018

As we reported this past October: Purchased by the founder of Hive Communities for $6.495 million in April of last year, the 5,493-square-foot “Light House” condo at 651 Dolores Street,…

As Proposed City Planning Neighborhoods

Planning to Encourage Development of Glen Park Parking Lot

June 1, 2018

The former homes that stood on the underdeveloped Glen Park lot fronting Brompton Avenue and Kern Street were removed in the late 1960s, when the city widened Bosworth Street and…

As Proposed Bay Buildings City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Floating Fire Station (Even) Closer to Reality on San Francisco’s Bay

June 1, 2018

Having ditched the previously proposed smooth aluminum exterior panels and terracotta screens, “that lacked precedent within the historic district,” and adopted a corrugated metal finish with aluminum airfoil louvers at…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Rendering for Skinny Transbay District Tower Revealed

May 31, 2018

As we reported last week, plans for a skinny 44-story tower to rise on the Transbay District parcel at 540 Howard Street, upon which the three-story Temple nightclub building currently…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Rates Slip along with the Odds of a Rate Hike in June

May 31, 2018

Having ticked up to a 7-year high, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage slipped 10 basis points over the past week to 4.56 percent but remains 62 basis…

Bubble (Or Not) Trends

Pending Home Sales Drop in the U.S. despite More Inventory

May 31, 2018

Having inched up 0.4 percent in March, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, declined 1.3 percent in April…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Shoehorned Home Sans Parking Fetches $3.5 Million

May 31, 2018

Purchased for $3.1 million in April of 2015, the 3,687-square-foot, four-bedroom Clarendon Heights home which was shoehorned between two existing homes, and originally built without any legal way to reach…

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