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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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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee Has Died at the Age of 65

December 12, 2017

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died from a heart attack early this morning at the age of 65. As such, Board of Supervisors President London Breed is now the acting…

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Bonus Plans for Building Up Broadway

December 11, 2017

Plans for a mixed-use building to rise up to six stories in height upon on the parking lot parcel at 425 Broadway, which actually wraps around the three-story Crowbar and…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Waylaid Mission District Development Slated for Approval

December 11, 2017

In the works since 2014 but waylaid by the adoption and subsequent extension of ‘Interim Controls’ to limit new market-rate housing, office and retail developments in the Mission, plans to…

Industry Stuff New Developments Trends

Sales and Pricing Index for New Condos in SF Tick Up

December 11, 2017

With sales offices for two new developments in San Francisco having opened their doors in October, the number of purchase contracts signed for new construction condos in the city ticked…

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An Uber Sale in the Works

December 8, 2017

Purchased for $7.995 million in early 2015, at which point the home’s total square footage measured around 6,200 square feet, including its lower level and three-car garage, the Pacific Heights…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Contemporary Cow Hollow Development Slated for Approval

December 8, 2017

In the works since 2015, plans to level the long-shuttered Chevron service station site at the corner of Van Ness and Union and construct a contemporary seven-story building upon the…

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Best Priced Two-Bedroom in Premier High-Rise Fetches Even Less

December 8, 2017

Purchased for $1.495 million in September 2015, the 1,418-square-foot Lumina unit #2A, above Woodlands Market at 318 Main Street, returned to the market this past June listed for $1.649 million,…

Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions

Quiet Million Dollar Cut for a Rocker’s Sea Cliff Home

December 7, 2017

Having been reduced from $16 million to $14 million in one fell swoop earlier this year, the listing Kirk Hammett’s 4,200-square-foot home at 308 Sea Cliff Avenue was officially withdrawn…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Refined Designs for Affordable Housing to Rise at Candlestick Point

December 7, 2017

With the first two blocks of the new Candlestick Point neighborhood slated to start rising next fall, the design for one of the first 100 percent below market rate (BMR)…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Holding Under 4 Percent

December 7, 2017

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has held relatively firm over the past three weeks, slipping a single (1) basis points in the aggregate to 3.94 percent, which…

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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

    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

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

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