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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 Design & Architecture Neighborhoods Transit

Plan for a Better Market Street Picked, Aiming for a 2020 Start

May 2, 2018

While running a few years behind schedule, the three alternatives and two design options for redesigning the 2.2‐mile segment of Market Street between Octavia Boulevard and The Embarcadero, with the…

Breaking News East Bay Marin (And Points North) Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Trends

SF Population Ticks Up to 884,000; Bay Area Nearing 7.8 Million Mark

May 1, 2018

The estimated population of San Francisco proper has inched up from 880,400 in July of 2017 to 884,000 as of January 1, 2018, according to the latest data from California’s…

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Iconic Western SoMa Club Building on the Market for $6 Million

May 1, 2018

Purchased for $2.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2014 and subsequently remodeled and expanded, including the addition of a new roof deck, the former home to the first leather…

Apples To Apples Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods

$10M Fixer Back on the Market for $600K Less and Virtually Staged

April 30, 2018

The 5,700-square-foot Presidio Heights fixer at 3515 Pacific Avenue hit the market listed for “$6.9 million” early last year and sold for $10.35 million that March. Having since been virtually…

Design & Architecture East Bay Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Trends

Berkeley Gas Station Development Redesigned for ‘Co-Living’

April 30, 2018

Plans to level the Berkeley Gas & Smog station on southwest corner of Shattuck and Ashby Avenues have been in the works since 2015, at which point a five-story development…

New Developments Trends

Pending Home Sales Inch up in the U.S., Drop in the West

April 30, 2018

Having dropped to a 39-month low at the beginning of the year, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity,…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Big Bubble Development Closer to Reality on Van Ness

April 30, 2018

Having been redesigned to address some bay window and encroachment concerns, the plans for a seven story building to rise on the Big Bubble Laundromat site at 2525 Van Ness…

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

Bay Area Home Sales Slip, 9-Year Seasonal Low in San Francisco

April 27, 2018

The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area totaled 7,122 in March, a 3.3 percent drop in volume versus the same time last…

East Bay Neighborhoods

Oakland A’s Enter Negotiations for Howard Terminal Site, Again

April 27, 2018

Having dismissed the 50-acre site back in 2014, the Oakland A’s have now entered into a formal negotiating agreement with Oakland’s Port Commission to explore building a new MLB stadium…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Raising the Roof (And Not) on Potrero Avenue Take Two

April 27, 2018

As we first reported last year: Plans to redevelop the southwest corner of Potrero Avenue and 23rd Street, across from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in the Mission, have been…

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