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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 Breaking News City Planning Neighborhoods

Passed by Planning, Central SoMa Plan Is Now Headed to the Supes

May 14, 2018

Having been unanimously supported by San Francisco’s Planning Commission last week, the City’s ambitious Central SoMa Plan is now slated to be reviewed by the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Neighborhoods New Developments

Lumina Plaza Penthouse Fails to Fetch its 2015 Price

May 14, 2018

Purchased for $2.331 million or roughly $1,430 per square foot in the fourth quarter of 2015, the Lumina Plaza C’s penthouse unit #8E, which features 12-foot ceilings and measures 1,630…

Bay Buildings Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods

Burned-Out Former Drug Den Back on the Market for a Million Bucks

May 14, 2018

As we wrote 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…

City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

The Plans to Transform San Francisco’s Civic Center

May 11, 2018

In the works since 2016, three comprehensive plans for transforming San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza, Fulton Mall and United Nations Plaza, as newly rendered and outlined below, will be presented…

As Proposed City Planning Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Placeholder for Transbay District Tower Slated for Approval, Again

May 11, 2018

While plans for a skinny 495-foot-tall tower with up to 334 condos, or 72 condos over a 273-room hotel, “depending upon market conditions,” were approved to rise on the downtown…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Redesigned Golden Gate Development Closer to Reality

May 11, 2018

The new plans for an eleven-story building to rise on the site of the former Stars/Trader Vic’s/Maestro building turned Empire Room at 555 Golden Gate Avenue could be approved next…

Apples To Apples City Planning Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods

Thwarted by Neighbors, Noe Home Returns sans Addition

May 10, 2018

With plans to raise, renovate and expand the existing 2,300-square-foot Noe Valley home at 437 Hoffman Avenue having been drafted, the property traded hands for $1.85 million in 2014. While…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Holds along with Odds of a Rate Hike

May 10, 2018

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage held at 4.55 percent over the past week but remains 50 basis points above the 4.05 percent rate in place at the…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Modern Mount Olympus Development Closer to Reality

May 9, 2018

Plans for a modern 10-unit development to effectively rise on the northwest corner of 17th and Roosevelt, below the summit of San Francisco’s Mount Olympus on the southern border of…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Neighborhoods Remodeling and Renovation

A near Record-Setting Sunnyside Sale

May 9, 2018

Purchased as a 1,300-square-foot house, with two bedrooms and two baths, for $760,000 in October of 2007, the Sunnyside home at 643 Mangels Avenue, just below Miraloma and to the…

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