Nob Hill Cooperative Apartment Takes a Hit
Quietly purchased for $3.2 million in April of last year (2016), the two-bedroom unit #910 at the Comstock (1333 Jones) returned to the market listed for $3.0 million this past…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Inching Up, Ending 2017 Around 4%
As expected, the average rate for the benchmark 30-year mortgage inched up 5 basis points over the past week to 3.99 percent, which is the highest rate in five months…
The Force Is Strong in Sea Cliff: Luke’s Home Fetches $18.8 Million
Purchased by the infamous Luke Brugnara for $7 million in 2002, the seven-bedroom home at 224 Sea Cliff Avenue, to which Luke had $11 million worth of art delivered and…
Refined Designs and Impact Report for a Block-Sized Development
Zoned for the potential development of up to 1,556 residential units, 2.8 million square feet of office space or a combination of the two, the preliminary plans for the proposed…
Pending U.S. Home Sales Inch up but Expected to Slow
Having gained 3.5 percent in October, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, inched up another 0.2 percent in…
Bay Area Home Values Tick Up, Condo Values Slip
Having inched up 0.5 percent in September, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay…
A Century of Planning in San Francisco
Back in 1904, San Francisco Mayor James Phelan convened the Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco, a private group which invited the visionary Daniel Burnham to create…
Bay Area Unemployment Rates Just Dropped to Record Lows
Having slipped in October, the number of people living in the city of San Francisco with a job increased by 4,600 in November to a record 557,400 and the unemployment…
San Francisco Population Hits 880,000; Bay Area Over 7.7 Million
The estimated population of San Francisco proper has crossed the 880K mark, hitting 880,418 on the first of July, according to data from California’s Department of Finance. That’s an increase…
Pace of New U.S. Home Sales Soars Following Downward Revision
With the preliminary pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. having been revised down from a 6.2 percent gain in October to a 1.7 percent decline, the seasonally…