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A Modernized Bayview Home Returns

September 27, 2023

Taken “down to the studs” and modernized, “with no details left unfinished,” the remodeled four-bedroom Bayview home at 1119 Hollister sold for $1.15 million in 2019 and then again for…

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New Home Sales Drop Below Pre-Pandemic Pace, Prices Slip

September 27, 2023

Having ticked up an upwardly revised 8.0 percent in July, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. dropped 8.7 percent in August to an annual…

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Index for Bay Area Home Values Inches Up, Down YOY

September 26, 2023

Having inched up an upwardly revised 0.2 percent in June, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area (i.e., “San Francisco,” which includes…

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Big Bernal Heights Infill Project Parcels Reduced, Again

September 25, 2023

Listed for $3.5 million eight months ago, with big plans for ten new “luxurious view residences” to rise on and behind the undeveloped Bernal Heights lot(s) at 1513 York Street…

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Inventory Levels Tick Up in San Francisco, Poised to Peak

September 25, 2023

The net number of homes on the market in San Francisco, including both condos and single-family homes, ticked up another 6 percent over the past week, driven by an ongoing…

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Polk Gulch Garage to Be Preserved, Demand for Parking Grows

September 22, 2023

While the supersized plans for redeveloping the Polk Gulch funeral home site at 1123 Sutter Street, along with the adjacent three-story garage at the corner of Sutter and Larkin, were…

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Premier Penthouse Unit Quietly Trades Down

September 21, 2023

Purchased for $2,942,500 in September of 2012, which was roughly $1,468 per square foot but 8 percent under asking at the time, the “exclusive,” three-bedroom, three-bath penthouse unit #18D atop…

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Massive Pac Heights Compound on the Market

September 20, 2023

Designed by Conrad Alfred Meussdorffer and developed in 1923, the 33,000-square-foot, 8-story-plus-penthouse building at 2100 Jackson Street, on the northwest corner of Jackson and Laguna in Pacific Heights, was purchased…

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Number of Homes on the Market in San Francisco Climbs

September 19, 2023

The net number of homes on the market in San Francisco, including both condos and single-family homes, ticked up another 8 percent over the past week and has climbed over…

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Free Fallin’ Atop The Four Seasons

September 18, 2023

Created by merging two units atop the Four Seasons Residences at 765 Market Street, the nearly 3,600-square-foot Penthouse Unit 2CD was purchased for $6.5 million in the fourth quarter of…

Brahma (incensed renter) on Dolores Park Light House Condo Listed for a Million Less
I completely agree, and if you're looking for a natural test of whether or not the extremely heated market dynamics…
Brahma (incensed renter) on 141 Below Market Rate Modular Studios Even Closer to Reality
We now have two more recent data points. Tahanan Supportive Housing (at 833 Bryant St.) completed in winter 2021, was…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Beaux Arts Beauty Suddenly Back on the Market
Maybe the seller knew what they had, didn't want to take a more than $1 million haircut and was willing…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Contemporary Little Saigon Condo Listed for Nearly 30 Percent Less
The one-bedroom, one bathroom 719 Larkin &num;705 sold for $690,000 in November of 2019, conforming to building and neighborhood comps…
Aaron Goodman on Parkmerced: From The Plans To Develop, To The Plans To Preserve
Gabriel Metcalf should apologize, 6 national organizations signed a memo against the destruction of Parkmerced, and to date they have…
Notcom on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval
And don't forget the simultaneous implosion of the The California College of the Arts (CCA)...guess that move to SF wasn't…
The Milkshake of Despair on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval
The Academy of Art is a reminder of what the city has lost with the San Francisco Art Institute. The…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval
Here we are, more than six years later, and in a story datelined May 11, 2026 (Academy of Art sells…
Notcom on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)
Noted. But of course I'm more interested in (what passes for) journalism over at the 'Standard'": consider this remarkable -…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Coveted LEED Condo Listed Below its 2015 Price
Wound up closing at asking 39 days after the above post. Then something happened which appeared on the MLS like…

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A Modernized Bayview Home Returns

New Home Sales Drop Below Pre-Pandemic Pace, Prices Slip

Index for Bay Area Home Values Inches Up, Down YOY

Big Bernal Heights Infill Project Parcels Reduced, Again

Inventory Levels Tick Up in San Francisco, Poised to Peak

Polk Gulch Garage to Be Preserved, Demand for Parking Grows

Premier Penthouse Unit Quietly Trades Down

Massive Pac Heights Compound on the Market

Number of Homes on the Market in San Francisco Climbs

Free Fallin’ Atop The Four Seasons

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