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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 Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions

$1.5 Million Price Cut for Hidden Glen Park Estate

October 9, 2017

Having hit the market priced at $12.5 million last month, as we first reported at the time, the asking price for the massive Glen Park estate at 47 Chenery Street…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

In the Red at Blu

October 9, 2017

Purchased for $1.458 million or roughly $1,185 per square foot in October 2015, the two-bedroom unit #7D at 631 Folsom Street (a.k.a. BLU), which includes a dedicated parking spot, two…

Industry Stuff New Developments Trends

New Condo Sales and Pricing Slip in San Francisco

October 6, 2017

The number of purchase contracts signed for new construction condos in San Francisco dropped 59 percent from August (96) to September (39) but were still 44 percent higher versus the…

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Plans for an 18-Story Hotel to Rise upon Shuttered LuLu’s Site

October 6, 2017

As we first noted nine months ago: While the shuttering of Restaurant LuLu after 24 years at 816 Folsom Street appears to have caught some by surprise, the writing was…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Odds of a Rate Hike Rocket

October 6, 2017

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched up 2 basis points over the past week to 3.85 percent, which is now 43 basis points above the 3.42 percent…

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions

19.2 Percent Price Cut for Designer Noe Valley Pad

October 6, 2017

Priced at $6.8 million or roughly $1,420 per finished square foot at the beginning of the year, the list price for the designer five-bedroom home at 4352 26th Street was…

Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Historic Hibernia Bank Building on the Market in the Mission

October 5, 2017

Designed by Arthur Brown Jr. of Bakewell & Brown and City Hall fame and built for Hibernia Bank in 1924, an addition to the concrete and steel reinforced building on…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods

Dolores Park Hive Now Listed at a Loss

October 5, 2017

Purchased by the founder of Hive Communities for $6.495 million in April of last year, the 5,493-square-foot “Light House” condo at 651 Dolores Street, one of four condos within the…

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Still No Full-Service Grocery in Sight for Transbay Block 8

October 4, 2017

It’s now been over two years since Related California cut 99 residential units from their development plans for Transbay Block 8 and reduced the project’s proposed grocery store space from…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Listings (for sale) New Developments RealRecentReductions

Best Priced Two-Bedroom in Premier High-Rise Drops Another $93K

October 4, 2017

As we originally reported two months ago: Purchased for $1.495 million in September 2015, the 1,418-square-foot Lumina unit #2A at 318 Main Street returned to the market this past June…

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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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  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)

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