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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
Apples To Apples Neighborhoods

A Sub 2015 Sale in One of the Hottest Neighborhoods in S.F.

May 2, 2017

Positioned as “an excellent opportunity to purchase a beautiful new construction residence in one of the hottest neighborhoods in San Francisco,” with “contemporary finishes, excellent views, and wonderful outdoor spaces,”…

As Proposed City Planning Commercial Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Proposed Oakland Tower Redesigned to Fit In

May 1, 2017

Speaking of major projects being redesigned, the plans for a proposed office tower to rise up to 450 feet in height at 2 Kaiser Plaza (a.k.a. 325 22nd Street), on…

Breaking News City Planning Industry Stuff Real Estate Legislation Rentals

Airbnb Settles with San Francisco, Law Limiting Listings to Take Effect

May 1, 2017

Airbnb and HomeAway have agreed to dismiss their legal challenge of San Francisco’s new short-term rental law which restricts units that haven’t been registered with San Francisco’s Office of Short-Term…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Setting the Opposition Party’s Story Straight

May 1, 2017

While the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) has not withdrawn their requested Discretionary Review (DR) and formal opposition to the redevelopment of the Mission District auto shop site at 1900…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Fixtures & Furnishings Remodeling and Renovation

Millennium Tower Penthouse Tumbles 29 Percent

May 1, 2017

Purchased for $8.1 million in mid-2015, the two-bedroom plus den penthouse unit #1A on the 58th floor of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower, a 2,700-square-foot unit with two parking spaces which…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Asian Art Museum Addition Completely Redesigned

April 28, 2017

The proposed expansion of San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum at 200 Larkin Street has been completed redesigned. The extruded aluminum screen which was envisioned to wrap around the expansion and…

Rentals Trends

Twenty Years of Eviction History in San Francisco

April 28, 2017

An aggregation of the Rent Board’s last twenty years of annual reporting, from March of 1997 to February 2017, provides a broader perspective with respect to eviction notice trends in…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Eight Stories of Condos to Rise in Little Saigon Closer to Reality

April 28, 2017

Plans to level the single-story Susan’s Massage, Four Seasons restaurant and Excellent Dry Cleaners building at the corner of Larkin and Olive, which have been in the works since 2015,…

As Proposed Design & Architecture East Bay Neighborhoods

New Housing to Rise on Longtime North Oakland Restaurant Site

April 28, 2017

Plans to raze the shuttered North Oakland restaurant building at 5817 Shattuck Avenue, out of which Dorsey’s Locker had long served soul food before a brief stint as Blue Bay…

Breaking News Bubble (Or Not) East Bay Marin (And Points North) Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Trends

San Francisco Home Sales and Median Price Slip as Bay Area Gains

April 28, 2017

While the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands in San Francisco last month jumped 44.5 percent from an upwardly revised 346 in February to 500 in March…

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