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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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33 Percent Price Cut for G’s Penthouse Lair, Take Two

December 1, 2017

Having hit the market priced at $12 million in early 2015, the asking price for Gurbaksh “G” Chahal’s 3,355-square-foot penthouse atop the Infinity was subsequently reduced down to $7.995 million…

Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Remodeling and Renovation

The Flippin Story behind Another Freestanding Facade

November 30, 2017

Purchased by the founder of the Flip video camera company (which was sold to Cisco for $590 million in 2009 and subsequently shuttered) for $1.2 million in August of 2002,…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Bonus-Sized Plans for Shuttered Gas Station Site Slated for Approval

November 30, 2017

Speaking of infilling South Van Ness Avenue in the Mission, bonus-sized plans for a seven-story building to rise on the long-shuttered gas station site on the northeast corner of 19th…

Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods New Developments

Timing for 127-Unit SoMa Development to Rise

November 29, 2017

While the building permits for the approved 127-unit apartment building to rise up to eight stories in height on the western side of 5th Street, between Shipley and Clara in…

As Proposed Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Plans for Infilling South Van Ness

November 29, 2017

Plans to level the Barney’s Auto Center shop at 986 South Van Ness Avenue, between 20th and 21st Streets in the Mission, and build nine (9) condos upon the 5,222-square-foot…

Trends

Index for Pending U.S. Home Sales Ticks Up, Slips in the West

November 29, 2017

Having dropped to its lowest level since January of 2015 this past September, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of…

As Proposed Breaking News Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Proposed 454-Unit Mid-Market Tower Massed

November 28, 2017

As we first reported last week, plans to build up to 454 units of housing upon the underdeveloped Mid-Market parking lot at 469 Stevenson Street, which is currently owned by…

Bay Buildings Breaking News Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Historic Hibernia Bank Building Sold, Positioned for Redevelopment

November 28, 2017

Having hit the market last month touting its excellent redevelopment potential, as we first reported at the time, the sale of the historic Hibernia Bank building at 1098 Valencia Street…

Trends

Indexes for Bay Area Home Values Inch Up

November 28, 2017

Having slipped 0.1 percent in August, 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 and…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Redesigned Dollar Store Development Slated for Approval

November 27, 2017

In the works since 2009, the proposed redevelopment of the “One $ Store” parcel on the southwest corner of Mission and 17th Streets could be approved by San Francisco’s Planning…

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