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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
Design & Architecture East Bay Neighborhoods

Take Three for an East Bay Infill Project

December 18, 2017

With false starts in both 1991 and 2002, at which points 34-unit and 32-unit buildings had been approved and permitted, and site prep had actually gotten underway but was subsequently…

As Proposed City Planning Neighborhoods

Affordable Development Appealed by Neighbor in Telegraph Hill

December 15, 2017

While the proposed development of 178 affordable apartments to rise up to six stories in height across the half-block-plus parking lot parcel at 88 Broadway, a development which the Telegraph…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Infilling Cole Valley as Envisioned

December 15, 2017

When the large Cole Valley Victorian at the corner of Carl and Stanyan, which is known as the Lange House, sold for $3.15 million in mid-2014, the sale included the…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Collective of Modern Condos Closer to Reality

December 15, 2017

As we first reported last year: Plans to level the two-story Auto Trust Services building at 255 Shipley Street have been drafted. And as proposed, a modern four-story building designed…

As Proposed Breaking News City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Plans for Semi-Massive Presidio Heights Development Formalized

December 14, 2017

The formal application to move forward with the semi-massive redevelopment of CPMC’s nearly 5-acre California Hospital Campus at 3700 California Street has just been submitted to San Francisco’s Planning Department.…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

Down on Nob Hill

December 14, 2017

Purchased for $1.2 million or roughly $1,136 per square foot in January 2016, the 1,056-square-foot one-bedroom condo #1212 within Gramercy Towers at 1177 California Street returned to the market priced…

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

Bay Area Home Sales Hold Despite Fires and SF’s Slip

December 13, 2017

Despite the marked impact of the recent wild fires in Sonoma and Napa counties, which resulted in an average 18.7 percent drop in sales activity versus the same time last…

Breaking News Real Estate Economics

The Fed Institutes a Rate Hike, Signals Three More in 2018

December 13, 2017

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 three more…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Listings (for sale) Real Estate Economics

Apples-To-Apples for a Central SoMa Penthouse Condo, Take Two

December 13, 2017

As we wrote a year ago last month: “Speaking of list price reductions in San Francisco, the asking price for the “rarely available” corner one-bedroom unit #802 on a penthouse…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Plans for Building up in the Excelsior Back in Play

December 13, 2017

Plans to level the former Excelsior District Woolworth’s turned Dollar Store at 4550 Mission Street and construct a four-story building, with 17 residential units over a ground floor retail space…

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    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

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    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)

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