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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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$20 Million Price Cut for Tech Mogul’s Silicon Valley Estate

April 27, 2017

Built for Kumar Malavalli, the co-founder of Brocade Communications Systems and current VC, the 21,400-square-foot home at 27500 La Vida Real in Los Altos Hills hit the market with a…

Trends

Pending U.S. Home Sales Slip, Running Below Average in the West

April 27, 2017

Having rebounded 5.5 percent in February, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes an average level of activity, slipped 0.8 percent in March to…

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Impact of Giants’ Massive Mission Rock Development Revealed

April 27, 2017

The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) and refined plans for the San Francisco Giants’ proposed 28-acre Mission Rock project, which is slated to rise up to 240 feet in height…

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

Palo Alto Contemporary on the Market for $9 Million

April 27, 2017

Designed by the owner-architect, Mary Maydan of Maydan Architecture, and built on a quarter-acre Palo Alto lot back in 2005, the still contemporary home at 925 Addison Street is now…

As Proposed Breaking News Neighborhoods

Bernalhaus Collective Evicted, Condos to Rise

April 26, 2017

The remaining residents of the artists’ collective known as Bernalhaus, on Peralta Avenue, behind the Alemany Farmers’ Market at the bottom of Bernal Heights, have been forcibly evicted and locked…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

From Apartments to Hotel Rooms in the Tendernob as Proposed

April 26, 2017

The approved plans for a 5-story building with 15 apartments to rise on the vacant lot at 824 Hyde Street, upon which the former 4-story Chatom Apartments building had stood…

City Planning Commercial Neighborhoods New Developments

The Latest Accounting for Mission Bay

April 26, 2017

When San Francisco’s 300-acre Mission Bay neighborhood is fully developed, it will include 6,400 units of housing. That’s 1,100 more than today, with 500 of those units under construction and…

As Proposed Bay Buildings City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods New Developments

Plans and Funding for a New Dogpatch Hub, with a Catch (or Two)

April 26, 2017

A detailed proposal and plans to transform the deteriorating and fire-bombed former Police Station at 2300 Third Street into a new Dogpatch Hub and community center have been drafted. And…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Development Challenged for Looking Too Upscale

April 25, 2017

Plans to level the former N&S Auto Body Shop at 1924 Mission Street and construct a new 80-foot-tall building, with 11 apartments over a ground floor retail space fronting Mission,…

Breaking News Trends

Bay Area Single-Family Home Values Hit an All-Time High

April 25, 2017

Having slipped at the beginning of the year, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North…

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