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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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Another Oakland Development Is Redesigned

May 18, 2017

As we first reported last week, the Strada Investment Group is seeking permission to increase the density of the approved development to rise at 1100 Clay Street, between 11th and…

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Major Market Street Development Underway

May 18, 2017

Demolition of the former Flax at 1699 Market Street is underway. The building permits for a 9-story, 160-unit building to rise up to 85 feet in height upon the Market…

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Plans for a Tower to Rise over This Historic Building

May 18, 2017

Ellis Partners is abandoning the previously approved plans for a 20-story tower to rise at 1100 Broadway in Downtown Oakland. And instead, they’re proposing to develop an 18-story building, the…

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A Clinical Addition, Micro Units and Potential Setback on Polk

May 17, 2017

North East Medical Services (NEMS), a non-profit community health center, is planning to build a new medical clinic at 650 Polk Street by adding four new stories atop the existing…

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From Modern to Contemporary in Western SoMa

May 17, 2017

As originally envisioned, a modern five-story building designed by RG-Architecture was to rise up to 55 feet in height upon the 349 8th Street site, between Folsom and Heron in…

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Proposed 25-Story Oakland Tower Closer to Reality

May 17, 2017

The refined designs for a proposed 25-story tower to rise up to 270 feet in height at 1721 Webster Street, between 17th and 19th Streets in Oakland’s Central Business District,…

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Noe Valley ‘T House’ Back on the Market with an Eye-Popping Price

May 17, 2017

Having traded from a former Google engineer to a former Facebook engineer for $6.1 million in 2011, the Ogrydziak/Prillinger Architects (OPA) designed “T House” at 526 Duncan Street, which was…

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Iconic North Beach Sausage Factory on the Market

May 16, 2017

Built in 1948, the shuttered Buon Gusto Sausage Factory at 535 Green Street was once the largest sausage and salami producing facility in the west. The 8,600-square-foot building, which is…

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How to Play Planning and Mint a Few Million Bucks

May 16, 2017

Purchased as two adjacent but completely separate units in the Royal Towers building at 1750 Taylor Street for a combined $4.6 million back in January of 2014, an application to…

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Proposition Could Pose a Problem for Proposed SoMa Project

May 16, 2017

As proposed, the former Pacific Bicycles building at 345 4th Street will be razed and a seven-story commercial building will rise up to 85 feet in height upon the Central…

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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