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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
As Proposed Being Green City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Big Plans for the Burgeoning Hub District’s Streets and Plazas

March 3, 2017

With up to 9,000 units of housing expected to be built within the boundaries of San Francisco’s burgeoning Hub District, which is off-centered around the intersection of Market Street and…

Breaking News East Bay Marin (And Points North) Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Trends

Employment in S.F. and the East Bay Just Dropped the Most since 2009

March 3, 2017

While the upwardly revised December count of the number of people living in San Francisco with a job ended up adding 1,300 to the employment roll, the January count eliminated…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Neighborhoods Trends

Coveted SoMa View Condo Fetches 3% More than in 2014

March 3, 2017

Listed as the most desirable one-bedroom with den floor plan at SoMa Grand, with a balcony and coveted “Views, Views, Views!” from both the living room and bedroom, 1160 Mission…

Breaking News Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods

Club Zone Parcels Positioned for over 200 Homes in Play

March 3, 2017

The Action Rentals building at 1526-1530 Folsom Street is on the market in Western SoMa, along with its parking lot at 1560 Folsom and two adjacent parcels which extend to…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Proposed One Oak Tower Closer to Reality

March 2, 2017

The paperwork to secure the building permits for the proposed 40-story Hub District tower to rise up to 435 feet in height at One Oak Street – at the prominent…

Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods

Unlisted Billionaires Row Home Has Quietly Traded Hands

March 2, 2017

While it’s not (yet) listed for sale or official inventory, the 8,200-square-foot home on the northwest corner of Broadway and Divisadero, at the start of San Francisco’s Gold Coast/Billionaires Row,…

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Short-Term Rental Certificate for Sleeping Boxes Revoked

March 2, 2017

Marketed as “private micro-suites” with queen sized beds on Airbnb for $90 per night, or “sleeping boxes” according to a couple of complaints, the short-term rental registration/certificate for 4229 Moraga…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Changes to Allow for Taller Goodwill Site Tower Slated for Approval

March 1, 2017

The public hearing at which the height and bulk limits for the proposed 550-unit apartment tower to rise on the Goodwill site at the corner of Mission and South Van…

As Proposed Design & Architecture East Bay Neighborhoods New Developments

MacArthur Boulevard Project Newly Rendered and in Play

March 1, 2017

As we first reported last year: The days are numbered for the MacArthur Carwash and tire shop at the corner of MacArthur and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland,…

Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

Polk Gulch Garage with an Illegal Hotel Back on the Market

March 1, 2017

With the third floor of the Polk Gulch garage at 819 Ellis Street having been illegally converted into the “American International Hostel,” an un-permitted tourist hotel, the City had ordered…

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