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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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Redwoods, Sculpture and Funicular Ousted from Plaza Plans

June 30, 2017

The approved plans for the future half-acre Mission Plaza at the base of the Transbay/Salesforce Tower feature a grove of 20 redwood trees, a 41-foot-tall sculpture assembled from concrete blocks…

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Central SoMa Development Closer to Reality

June 30, 2017

As we first reported last year: With a bit of drilling going on at the lot on the corner of 5th and Shipley, a reader wonders what’s in the works…

As Proposed Breaking News City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Plans for 520-Foot Tower at Van Ness and Market Have Been Drawn

June 29, 2017

Lendlease Development has drafted their preliminary plans for a 520-foot-tall tower to rise at 30 Van Ness Avenue. And while previous plans for the Hub District parcel had envisioned razing…

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

Dogpatch Development Positioning to Break Ground sans BMRs

June 29, 2017

Entitled for development early last year, the building permits for the 109-unit project to rise up to seven stories in height at 2177 3rd Street have now been issued and…

Design & Architecture Neighborhoods New Developments

Approved Plans for Going Even Bigger in Dolores Heights

June 28, 2017

After a former Facebook couple raised the ire of their future Dolores Heights neighbors by proposing to build a 5,600-square-foot, single-family home across the 323 Cumberland Street parcel (upon which…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Planning Seeks More Density for Development in Presidio Heights

June 28, 2017

As proposed, the redevelopment of CPMC’s nearly 5-acre California Hospital Campus at 3700 California Street will yield 240 units of high-end housing – including 12 new single-family homes, 14 new…

As Proposed Bay Buildings City Planning Design & Architecture East Bay Neighborhoods

Tower to Rise over Historic Building Raises Concerns

June 28, 2017

As we first reported earlier this year, Ellis Partners is planning to abandon the previously approved plans for a 20-story tower to rise adjacent to the historic Key System Building…

Trends

Pending U.S. Home Sales Slip for Third Month in a Row

June 28, 2017

Having dropped 1.3 percent in April, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes an average level of activity, slipped another 0.8 percent in May…

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods San Jose (And South)

Atherton Estate of Warriors Shareholder on the Market for $32.8M

June 27, 2017

While the ownership of the two-acre Atherton estate at 150 Almendral Avenue is hidden behind a limited partnership, the property is owned by real estate investor, and minority owner of…

Breaking News Real Estate Economics Trends

Indexes for Bay Area Home and Condo Values Hit New Highs

June 27, 2017

Having ticked up an upwardly revised 1.1 percent in March, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East…

Notcom on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval
And don't forget the simultaneous implosion of the The California College of the Arts (CCA)...guess that move to SF wasn't…
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…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval
Here we are, more than six years later, and in a story datelined May 11, 2026 (Academy of Art sells…
Notcom on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)
Noted. But of course I'm more interested in (what passes for) journalism over at the 'Standard'": consider this remarkable -…
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…
Brahma (incensed renter) on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)
And 12 years and 8 months later, brought to market asking $35 million only to be removed 122 days after…
Notcom on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year
I would diagnose this type of disconnect: Ass Burgher's Syndrome
Brahma (incensed renter) on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year
Yes. You correctly understood the schtick. Business people can make up all kinds of rationalizations for their pecuniary interests that…
Daniel on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
The Chron has some numbers to put to this: They just published a rundown of office occupancy by largest tenants.…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Another Motivated Seller and Near Million Dollar Drop
San Francisco clearly isn't doing enough to be a warm, welcoming and inclusive city for elite tech founders with lots…

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