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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
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How to Guarantee a Quick ‘Full-Price’ Sale in San Francisco

March 13, 2018

Purchased for $1.85 million in July of 2013, the 1,340-square-foot unit #35E at the Infinity, a “signature corner 2BR/2BA with stunning views of water, city or Bay Bridge from every…

Rentals Trends

Eviction Notices Drop in San Francisco with a Notable Exception

March 12, 2018

The number of eviction notices filed with San Francisco’s Rent Board dropped 12 percent over the past year, from 1,881 to 1,657. But there was one category in which there…

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Plans to Triple the Height of Pinterest’s Brand New Building

March 12, 2018

As we wrote about the recently completed six-story office building at 505 Brannan Street, which is now home to Pinterest, prior to it breaking ground in 2016: “Speaking of development…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Waylaid Rincon Hill Development Slated for Approval, Again

March 9, 2018

Approved for development back in 2009 but subsequently waylaid by a successful appeal to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, an appeal which was championed by neighbors in the adjacent building…

As Proposed City Planning Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Planning Could Approve Neighborhood-Changing Plan This Month (UPDATED)

March 9, 2018

With the legislative process required to adopt San Francisco’s ambitious Central SoMa Plan having successfully been initiated last week, a move which shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, the…

As Proposed Breaking News City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Ambitious Conservatory of Music Project Approved

March 9, 2018

The upzoning, development agreement and authorization needed for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s proposed twelve-story building to rise up to 120 feet in height at 200 Van Ness Avenue,…

Design & Architecture Rentals San Jose (And South)

Penthouse in Palo Alto Priced at $34K a Month

March 8, 2018

Built on a former Downtown Palo Alto parking lot and finished in 2016, the 5,165-square-foot penthouse atop the four-story Foundation Capital building at 550 High Street is now seeking a…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Rates Continue to Inch Up, Nearing 5 and 7-Year Highs

March 8, 2018

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched up another 3 basis points over the past week to 4.46 percent, which is 25 basis points higher than at the…

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Timing for San Francisco’s Transit Center Pushed Back

March 8, 2018

While the 5.4-acre rooftop park atop San Francisco’s future Transbay/Salesforce Transit Center is on track to be fully planted, landscaped and construction complete in June, the timing to complete the…

East Bay Marin (And Points North) Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Trends

Bay Area Employment Slips from Record Highs

March 8, 2018

A refinement to the State of California’s analytics increased the estimated number of people living in San Francisco with a job to a record 557,800 at the end of 2017…

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