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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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A Mixed Employment Report for SF and around the Bay

March 24, 2017

Having dropped the most in nearly a decade at the beginning of the year, the number of people living in San Francisco with a job ticked up by 1,400 last…

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Big Plans for San Francisco’s Temporary Transbay Terminal Site

March 23, 2017

The Transbay District block bounded by Howard, Beale, Folsom and Main – which is currently the site of San Francisco’s Temporary Transbay Terminal – will be divided into three upon…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Listings (for sale)

Foreclosed upon at the Palms and Back under $1K per Foot

March 22, 2017

Purchased for $575,000 ($832 per square foot) in 2006, the buyer of the one-bedroom unit #533 at the Palms (555 4th Street) was in default with over $270,000 in past…

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Existing Home Sales Slip in the U.S.

March 22, 2017

Having ticked up 3.3 percent in January, the pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. dropped 3.7 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.48 million transactions.…

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New Timing for Twisty Transbay Tower

March 21, 2017

While the Transbay District site for the twisty 400-foot-tall “Bay Tower” designed by Jeanne Gang to rise at 160 Folsom Street, on the northwest corner of Folsom and Spear, has…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale) Marin (And Points North) RealRecentReductions

Pre-2006 Pricing for Villa Tara in Tiburon

March 21, 2017

Purchased for $7.6 million in early 2006, the 6,500-square-foot “Villa Tara” at 12 Tara Hill Road in Tiburon returned to the market listed for $10.9 million in 2015. Reduced to…

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Uber Slows its Roll in Oakland, Doubles Down in San Francisco

March 21, 2017

With Uptown Station’s opening already pushed back to the second quarter of 2018 due to design changes, Uber is now looking to sublet up to half of the 300,000 square…

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Eco-Luxe Guitar House Newly Listed for $25 Million in Marin

March 20, 2017

Sitting on an 11-acre hilltop parcel upon which Bill Graham’s last home once sat at 800 Corte Madera Avenue in Marin, the so-called ‘Guitar House’ compound took over five years…

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A Peek into the Future Look and Feel of Candlestick Point

March 17, 2017

Among the very first parcels to be developed on Candlestick Point, Block 9A – which will be located between the future 8th and 9th Streets along a newly extended Harney…

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San Francisco Has 124,847 Street Trees and a Webpage for Each

March 17, 2017

A year-long inventory and mapping of every street tree in San Francisco has been completed. And based on the EveryTreeSF census, which identified the exact location, species and current condition…

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