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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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The Fallacy of Legacy Business Status in San Francisco

April 25, 2017

The benefit of being awarded “Legacy Business” status in San Francisco is widely misunderstood and frequently misrepresented. Businesses that apply and are approved for Legacy Business status by the City…

Trends

Pace of New Home Sales in the U.S. Jumped in March

April 25, 2017

The seasonally adjusted rate of new single-family home sales in the U.S. jumped 5.8 percent from February to March, hitting an eight-month high of 621,000 annual sales, which is 15.6…

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UPDATED: Steph and Ayesha Curry Cut Price for Their East Bay Home

April 24, 2017

The 7,520-square-foot Walnut Creek pad at 620 Sugarloaf Court, which Steph and Ayesha Curry purchased for $3.2 million in November 2015, returned to the market last year listed for $3.7…

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Zestimated at $8.1 Million Last Year, sold for $4.55 Million Last Week

April 24, 2017

With a “Zestimate” of $8.1 million, the “rare and extraordinary…Telegraph Terrace Penthouse” unit #20 at 175 Francisco Street hit the market priced at $7.5 million in June of last year.…

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Plans to Gentrify Jingletown

April 24, 2017

Plans to redevelop the old An-Fo Manufacturing Co building at 3129 Elmwood Avenue, on the edge of Oakland’s Jingletown, near the Fruitvale BART Station, have been approved. As envisioned, a…

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Pedigreed Postmodern on the Peninsula for $15 Million

April 24, 2017

Built for David Kelley, the founder of IDEO and Stanford Design School, and designed by the late Italian architect, Ettore Sottsass, founder of Sottsass Associati and the Memphis group, the…

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Expansion of San Francisco’s Ferry Terminal About to Get Underway

April 21, 2017

With Sinbad’s having been razed to make room for the San Francisco’s Ferry Terminal Expansion project, which includes the construction of two new berthing facilities (Gates F and G) and…

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Employment in San Francisco Dropped in Q1

April 21, 2017

With the number of people living in San Francisco with a job pegged at 543,900 last month, a nominal 200 higher than the month before, employment in the city has…

As Proposed City Planning Neighborhoods

Plans to Build Higher on Harrison

April 21, 2017

Plans to raze the two-story Fast Signs Building on the northwest corner of Harrison and Hawthorne Streets are in the works. And as proposed, a 14-story building, with 118 residential…

Trends

Pace of Existing Home Sales Hits a Ten-Year High in the U.S.

April 21, 2017

Having slipped 3.7 percent in February, the pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. ticked up 4.4 percent in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.71 million transactions,…

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