Pace of Existing U.S. Home Sales Inches up but Median Price Drops
Having dropped 1.7 percent in August, the pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. inched up 0.7 percent in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.39 million transactions…
Plans for Another Big Mid-Market Hotel (and More)
Speaking of proposed Mid-Market hotels, plans for a 12-story building to rise upon the long-vacant lot at 1125 Market Street (upon which the former Bell/American/Embassy Theater once stood adjacent to…
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First Richard Neutra Designed Home in SF Illegally Razed
Built in 1936 and known in architectural circles as the Largent House, the modernist home at 49 Hopkins Avenue hit the market listed for $1.475 million in 2013 and sold…
Clearing the Way for a 10-Story Hotel Right Here
Back in 1908, a rather fine seven-story loft building designed by MacDonald & Applegarth was built upon the 1055 Market Street parcel which stretches from Market to Stevenson Street. A…
Western SoMa Target, CVS and Starbucks Closer to Reality
The formal application to convert the former Sports Authority building at 1690 Folsom Street into a full-service Target has been filed with Planning. The conversion wouldn’t require an expansion of…
Temporary Transbay Terminal to Become a Condo Showroom
While there are big plans to redevelop the Transbay District block bounded by Howard, Beale, Folsom and Main once San Francisco’s Temporary Transbay Terminal is shuttered after San Francisco’s new…
Biggish Ocean Avenue Development Closer to Reality
The designs for a 125-unit development to rise up to five stories in height upon the former Crayon Box/Little Bear preschool site at 65 Ocean Avenue, between Cayuga Avenue and…
$2.5 Million Cut for Landmark Presidio Heights Home
Having hit the market in July priced at $16 million, as we first reported at the time, the asking price for the Landmark Presidio Heights home at 3500 Jackson Street…
Bus Rapid Transit on Van Ness Pushed Back to Mid-2020
Having finally broken ground last year, which led to some false hopes with respect to the redevelopment of the former McDonald’s site at the corner of Van Ness and Golden…
Think You Know Bernal? Now’s the Time to Tell
Purchased for $1,605,000 in October of 2012 having first sold for $1,375,000 in January of 2011, the contemporary Bernal Heights home at 1755 Alabama Street returned to the market listed…