A Bid to Block the Redevelopment of UCSF’s Laurel Heights Campus
While SKS Partners and the Prado Group have been pushing forward with plans to redevelop the 10-acre Laurel Heights campus at 3333 California Street, which it has acquired from UCSF,…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Jumps, Nearing 7-Year High
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage jumped 11 basis points over the past week to 4.58 percent, which is 55 basis points higher than the 4.03 percent rate…
Major Excelsior District Development Newly Detailed and Phased
Having been expanded to include the Safeway parcel and parking lot at 4950 Mission Street, in addition to the Valente Marini Perata Funeral home parcel at 4840 Mission, the proposed…
New Condo Sales Tick up in SF on the Heels of a Price Drop
Having taken a hit in February, the Mark Company’s pricing index for new condos in San Francisco inched up 0.5 percent in March but is still running 8.8 percent lower…
Asking Rents Tick up in San Francisco, Slip in Oakland
Having ended last year lower than where they started, asking rents for apartments in San Francisco have ticked up around 3 percent since the beginning of the year, roughly half…
Bottom Third of Bay Area Home Values Just Hit Pre-Recession High
Having inched up 0.4 percent in January, 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…
Pace of New Home Sales above Average in the U.S., Jumps out West
Having ticked up an upwardly revised 3.6 percent in February, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ticked up another 4.0 percent in March to…
Revised Plans for Supersized Bart-Adjacent Project Sans Parking
Facing pushback from Oakland’s Planning Department with respect to the “monotonous and bulky massing” of the proposed 1,032-unit “Hub” development to rise up to 23 stories in height upon the…
Get Ready to Rumble, Not Just Shake, If Approved
As we first reported at the beginning of the year, and formally confirmed last week, Shake Shack is planning to convert the shuttered Real Food Company building on the southeast…
Proposed Mission District Development Newly Rendered
As we first reported last month and has been newly rendered below: Plans to level the Mission District garage at 1721 15th Street, between Little Star Pizza and The Monastery,…