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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
East Bay Fixtures & Furnishings Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions Remodeling and Renovation

Steph and Ayesha Curry’s East Bay Pad Officially Listed at a Loss

June 26, 2017

The East Bay pad that Steph and Ayesha Curry purchased for $3.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, after which another $400K was spent to remodel the kitchen (which…

As Proposed Being Green City Planning Neighborhoods

$10 Million Deal for Western SoMa Park Land Closer to Reality

June 26, 2017

The City’s nearly $10 million deal to acquire the five Western SoMa buildings at 145-165 11th Street, 964 Natoma and 973 Minna Street could be approved by San Francisco’s Board…

Design & Architecture East Bay Neighborhoods New Developments

Design for Second Brooklyn Basin Building Revealed

June 26, 2017

With plans for 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…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Towering Plans for City College Site

June 23, 2017

In a move which shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, City College of San Francisco has formally submitted plans for a tower to rise upon their 46,000-square-foot Hub District…

Bay Buildings Neighborhoods San Jose (And South)

Make That 23 Percent of Original Pricing for Silicon Valley Estate

June 23, 2017

As we first reported earlier this week, the 47.5-acre de Guigne estate at 891 Crystal Springs Road in Hillsborough, which hit the market priced at $100 million back in 2013,…

East Bay Marin (And Points North) Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Trends

Bay Area Home Sales (Mostly) Rebounded in May

June 23, 2017

Having dropped a downwardly revised 13.0 percent in April, the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands in San Francisco rebounded 17.2 percent to 560 in May, which…

Trends

New Home Sales in the U.S. Rebound but Remain below Average

June 23, 2017

Having shed 11.4 percent in April, the seasonally adjusted rate of new single-family home sales in the U.S. rose 2.9 percent in May to an annual rate of 610,000 sales…

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Modernized Victorian with a Storied past Fetches $5 Million

June 22, 2017

Purchased as a 2,136-square-foot home for $1.995 million in 2014, the Cole Valley Victorian at 164 Belvedere Street (which had once been owned by the iconic Rolling Stone photographer Baron…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Holds Post Hike

June 22, 2017

With the probability of the Fed’s rate hike last week already priced in, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage barely moved over the past seven days, dropping one…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

For the Grace and Good of Western SoMa

June 21, 2017

Plans for a four-story, 45-foot tall building to rise on the Western SoMa through lot at 17 Grace Street, which fronts Washburn Street as well, are working their way through…

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