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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
City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods

Plans for a Less Classy Mission District Development in Play

April 2, 2018

Having already been redesigned to look less upscale, the façade of the approved seven story development to rise up to 79 feet in height upon the former auto body shop…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Design & Architecture

Merged Millennium Tower City Residence Fetches $4.66M

April 2, 2018

Two adjacent units on the fourth floor of the eleven-story mid-rise component of San Francisco’s leaning Millennium Tower development (a.k.a. the City Residences) were legally merged back in 2013 to…

As Proposed Breaking News Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Expectations for Skinny Transbay District Tower Reset

March 30, 2018

Plans to redevelop the downtown parking lot parcel at 524 Howard Street were first approved nearly three decades ago, at which point a 23-story office building was expected to rise…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Designer Glen Park Home Fetches 9.5 Percent over Its 2014 Price

March 30, 2018

As we wrote three weeks ago: Designed by architect Strachan Forgan and built for himself in 2007, the 1,850-square-foot Glen Park home at 1223 Bosworth Street was featured on the…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

More Height and Density on Van Ness as Newly Proposed

March 30, 2018

While plans for a six-story over basement building to rise up to 65 feet in height upon the former service station site turned perennial Christmas tree lot on the northwest…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture

Modern LEED Platinum Home Fetches $3.7M

March 29, 2018

Designed by DNM Architecture, built for “a technology company executive” in 2014 and priced at $4.75 million in the first quarter of 2016, the LEED Platinum certified home at 4443…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Rates Hold, Fed’s Next Rate Hike Expected in June

March 29, 2018

With the impact of the Fed’s predicted rate hike last week having already been priced in, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has been holding around 4.44 percent,…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Plans for Western NoPa Infill Project Push Ahead

March 28, 2018

Plans to raze the Sunshine Cleaners at 1735 Fulton Street, along with the former Poleng Lounge/Storyville Jazz Club building next door, a few doors down from Papalote and Barrel Head…

Trends

Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Tick Up along with Inventory

March 28, 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,…

Industry Stuff New Developments Trends

New Condo Sales and Pricing Dip in San Francisco

March 27, 2018

While the sales figures for new condos in San Francisco at the beginning of this year received a boost from the official opening of the sales office for the 42-unit…

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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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 -…

  5. 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…

  6. Brahma (incensed renter) on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)

    And 12 years and 8 months later, brought to market asking $35 million only to be removed 122 days after…

  7. Notcom on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    I would diagnose this type of disconnect: Ass Burgher's Syndrome

  8. Brahma (incensed renter) on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    Yes. You correctly understood the schtick. Business people can make up all kinds of rationalizations for their pecuniary interests that…

  9. Daniel on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

    The Chron has some numbers to put to this: They just published a rundown of office occupancy by largest tenants.…

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    San Francisco clearly isn't doing enough to be a warm, welcoming and inclusive city for elite tech founders with lots…

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