Refined Designs and Timing for a Pair of Hub District Towers
The plans for a pair of 41-story towers to rise up to 420 feet in height upon the San Francisco Honda site, on the southwest corner of Market Street and…
A Hedge Fund Manager’s Plan for Doubling up in Presidio Heights
When the hedge fund manager who lives in the 4,400-square-foot Presidio Heights home at the corner of Walnut and Jackson learned that the home next door at 3311 Jackson, a…
Plans for a 15-Story Polk Gulch Tower Revealed
As we first reported last year, the vacant two-story building at 925 O’Farrell Street which had been occupied by Thai Stick Shabu Shabu and is zoned for development up to…
The First of Brooklyn Basin’s Two Affordable Buildings
With the first building of the massive Brooklyn Basin project – a 64-acre East Bay development which will yield up to 3,100 units of housing, 200,000 square feet of commercial/retail…
Plans for Embattled Lombard Street Site Closer to Reality
In the works since 2014, as we first reported at the time, the public hearing for the proposed four-story development to rise across the former Blockbuster parcel at 2444 Lombard…
Angling for a Bidding War to Fetch a 2015 Price
Listed for $1.17 million, or roughly $768 per square foot, in January 2015, the ClockTower loft unit #C322 at 461 2nd Street quickly sold for an “over asking!” price of…
Bigger Plans for Developing Shuttered Haight Street Site
As we first reported last year, plans to raze the former Lee’s Meat and Popular Market building at 478-482 Haight Street, adjacent to the new Nickies, and develop a new…
Indexes for Bay Area Home Values Inch Up
Having inched up 0.7 percent in June, 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…
Plans for Six Stories on Seventh as Proposed
Plans to level the former industrial building turned parking garage at 230 7th Street and construct a new six-story building upon the Western SoMa site are taking shape. The proposed…
Index for Pending U.S. Home Sales Drops, Forecast Downgraded
Having slipped in July, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, dropped 2.6 percent in August to 106.3 which…