Downsized Plans for a Towering SoMa Hotel Right Here
While the preliminary plans for a 21-story hotel with 480 rooms to rise up to 200 feet in height across the Central SoMa parking lot at 350 Second Street were…
Modernized Inner Mission Home Fetches its Early 2015 Price
As we wrote early last month prior to knowing the outcome: “Having been taken “down to the studs and masterfully redesigned,” with four (or five) bedrooms, three full bathrooms, an…
The Fed Institutes Another Rate Hike, Signals Seven More to Come
As predicted, the Federal Reserve has just raised its benchmark Federal Funds rate, upping its target range by another 0.25 percent (25 basis points) and signaling expectations for two more…
The Plans for 48 BMR Condos to Rise above This Derelict Building
The formal plans to add six stories and 48 below market rate (BMR) condos atop the dilapidated two-story commercial building on the southeast corner of Mission and 18th Streets have…
Existing Home Sales in the U.S. Reverse Course, Jump in the West
Having dropped an average of 3.4 percent in each of the previous two months, the pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. ticked up 3.0 percent in February to a…
Affordable Housing for Families to Rise in Mission Bay
As designed by Paulett Taggart Architects and Studio Vara for Mercy Housing, the proposed development to rise up to 74 feet in height, not including its parapets, on the western…
Déjà Vu for a Waylaid Rincon Hill Development
As we first reported a couple weeks ago, the revived plans for a modern 144-unit building to rise up to 84 feet in height at 430 Main/429 Beale Street could…
Historic Block Could Sink Plans for 460-Foot-Tall Oakland Tower
As we noted when the formal application to move forward with plans for a seemingly split 460-foot-tall tower to rise at 1261 Harrison Street in Downtown Oakland were filed with…
YouTube Co-Founder’s Penthouse Newly Listed for $2 Million Less
Purchased as an empty shell atop the Ritz-Carlton Residences in San Francisco for $4.85 million in 2007, the co-founder of YouTube, Steve Chen, proceeded to have the 3,000-square-foot penthouse unit…
Destination Waterfront Hotel Slated for Approval in the East Bay
The final development permit for a proposed waterfront hotel to rise up to 67 feet and six stories in height on the Jack London Square parcel known as F3, behind…