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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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Million Dollar Price Cut for Nicolas Cage’s Former Russian Hill Home

October 30, 2017

As we first reported at the beginning of the year: Purchased by Nicolas Cage by way of an anonymous trust for $9.4 million back in 2006, the Russian Hill mansion…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods Trends

Redevelopment of Another Gas Station in SF Closer to Reality

October 27, 2017

Plans to level the 76 station and JT’s Auto Repair shop on the southwest corner of Lawton and 42nd Avenue in the Outer Sunset and develop a four-story building upon…

As Proposed Breaking News Design & Architecture East Bay Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Plans for a Seemingly Split 460-Foot-Tall Oakland Tower Revealed

October 27, 2017

The preliminary plans for a 374-foot-tall tower to rise at 1261 Harrison Street, at the corner of 13th in Downtown Oakland, have been scrapped. Instead, Pinnacle Red Group is now…

Commercial Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods

No Guarantee of New Housing to Rise in the Heart of Noe Valley

October 27, 2017

The former Real Food building at 3939 24th Street, in the heart of Noe Valley, has been vacant since 2003 when the grocery was suddenly shuttered. Two months ago it…

Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods New Developments

Block-Sized Development on the Market in Outer Parkside

October 27, 2017

While still under construction, the 117,000-square-foot development at 2800 Sloat Boulevard, which includes 56 condos over 23,000 square feet of commercial space, an open-air market and a basement garage for…

Design & Architecture East Bay Neighborhoods

Crown Jewel of Piedmont Fetches $5.225 Million

October 27, 2017

Having hit the market listed as “the crown jewel of Piedmont” for $7.25 million last year, the restored 5,700-square-foot Edwardian on a manicured half-acre lot at 117 Sheridan Avenue has…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods New Developments

Plans to Double the Density of Development on Folsom

October 26, 2017

With the plans for a modern eight-story building to rise on the adjacent 980 Folsom Street parcel having been approved earlier this month, we now have the preliminary plans for…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Big and Even Bigger Plans for 4.5-Star Mission District Site

October 26, 2017

Plans to level the 4.5-star San Francisco Auto Works shop at 1021 Valencia Street are in the works. And as envisioned, up to 24 residential units over a ground floor…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Rates Inch up, Odds of a Hike over 98 Percent

October 26, 2017

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has ticked up 4 basis points over the past two weeks to 3.94 percent, which is 47 basis points above the 3.47…

Bubble (Or Not) Trends

Index for Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Hits 31-Month Low

October 26, 2017

The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, held at a downwardly revised 106.0 from August to September, which is…

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