The Most Expensive Home Sale in San Francisco so Far This Year
While never officially listed for sale on the MLS, the nine-bedroom Presidio Heights mansion at 34 Maple Street, which was designed by Hermann Barth and built for Mary A. Huntington…
Iconic Lombard Street IHouse in Play
The iconic A-frame at the corner of Lombard and Pierce was built for the International House of Pancakes (IHOP) back in 1968. And while it’s still open for business, the…
Redevelopment of Macy’s Men’s Store Building Slated for Approval
In the works since the end of 2016, as we first reported at the time, plans to strip the concrete and travertine skin from the exterior of the Macy’s Men’s…
Mortgage Rates Slip, Odds of a Rate Hike Hold
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage slipped 4 basis points over the past week to 4.40 percent but remains 30 basis points higher than the average rate in…
San Francisco’s First Whole Foods 365 Slated for Approval
In the works since 2016 and having survived a proposed formula retail ban, plans to convert the shuttered Lombardi Sports building at 1600 Jackson Street, at the corner of Polk,…
More Dorms for Developers in Western SoMa as Proposed
With 200 mini apartments rising on the 333 12th Street parcel to the left, and the ground having been broken for 136 units to rise on the 1532 Harrison Street…
Rincon Hill Penthouse Fetches 4.7 Percent over Its 2014 Price
Purchased for $3.535 million at the end of 2014, prior to which it had been listed for rent at $18,000 per month, the three-bedroom, three-bath penthouse unit #5204 atop One…
Supersized Van Ness Corridor Development Contemporized
As we first reported last week, plans to double the unit density of the approved development to rise upon the former service station site on the northwest corner of Van…
Modern Silicon Valley Mansion Priced at $29.8 Million
Having been unofficially on the market as an unfinished spec home without a published price since 2016, the new modern Atherton mansion which sits on a 1.6-acre parcel at 96…
Conversion in Classic SF Tower Fetches 22 Percent under 2015 Price
As we wrote at the beginning of the year: Purchased for $1.21 million in November of 2015, the 1,003-square-foot unit #303 in the classic Russian Hill building known as Bellaire…