Bigger Plans for Outer Sunset Gas Station Site
As originally proposed a couple years ago, the 76 station on the southwest corner of Lawton and 42nd Avenue in the Outer Sunset was to be razed for a four-story…
Designs and Timing for UCSF’s New Psych Center in Dogpatch
With the latest plans for UCSF’s future Child, Teen and Family Center, and Department of Psychiatry Building, slated to be presented to UC’s Board of Regents next month, a plugged-in…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Drops to Its Lowest Mark This Year
Having hit 4.30 percent four weeks ago with the probability of the Fed’s second rate hike already priced-in, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has since dropped to…
Complaints Related to Airbnb-ing in S.F. Have Doubled Again
Having more than doubled from around 250 in 2015 to over 600 in 2016, the number of formal complaints related to illegal short-term rentals in San Francisco is on pace…
Former ‘Farm’ Parcel Rezoned, on the Market as a Development Site
Having successfully petitioned to re-zone the southwestern spur of the former Mission District “Farm” buildings site from Open Space (OS) to Mixed-Use Residential (MUR), with the potential for building up…
The Story behind This $350K Over Asking Sale in West Oakland
Built as a duplex in the early 1900s, the two-story West Oakland building at 960-962 16th Street was subsequently converted into the House of Prayer Church of God with a…
Plans to Raise the Roof and New Rentals on Mission Closer to Reality
With the master tenant of the former Anna’s Linens shop at 2610 Mission Street having been paid to forfeit the remaining 30 years on a 99-year lease, plans to renovate…
Boutique Urban Townhome Project Pushing Forward
With the ground floor space of the little two-story office building at 220 Battery Street, which was to become a 7-Eleven, having been renovated and re-opened as Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches,…
Shuttered Oakland Chicken Shack Back on the Market for $2 Million
The shuttered Church’s Chicken shack at 345 East 18th Street, which is two blocks from the southeastern shore of Oakland’s Lake Merritt, is back on the market with a $1,999,999…
Sub-2015 Pricing in South Beach
Purchased as new for $952,000, or roughly $1,213 per square foot, in November 2015, the 785-square-foot, one-bedroom condo #403 at 72 Townsend Street, a “one-of-a-kind luxury mid-rise” building in the…