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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
Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Industry Stuff

Potrero Hill Penthouse Fetches 2014 Price

March 1, 2017

Purchased for $1,635,000 in May of 2014, the two-bedroom Onyx penthouse unit #406 at 415 De Haro Street, in the flats of Potrero Hill, returned to the market listed for…

Breaking News East Bay San Jose (And South) Trends

San Francisco Home Sales Drop 15 Percent, Greater Bay Area Holds

February 28, 2017

While the estimated number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the Bay Area last month (4,849) dropped 31.4 percent from the month before with typical seasonality in…

Apples To Apples San Jose (And South) Seemingly Random

49ers’ QB Colin Kaepernick Has Sold His Bay Area Home

February 28, 2017

San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, has sold his gated San Jose home at 4903 Eastbourne Court for $3.075 million, which is roughly 3 percent more than Kaepernick had invested…

Trends

Bay Area Condo Values Slip, Houses Inch Up

February 28, 2017

Having slipped 0.1 percent in November, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay and…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Plans and Potential for Building up Balboa Park

February 28, 2017

Plans to raze the warehouse and (National) Trophy (Company) building at 350-352 Ocean Avenue are in the works. And as proposed, a four-story building designed by Schaub Ly Architects will…

East Bay Real Estate Economics Rentals Trends

Price of Renting a Room in SF Has Dropped 12% from Peak

February 27, 2017

With the weighted average asking price of renting an apartment in San Francisco having now dropped over 8 percent since peaking in the fourth quarter of 2015, which brings us…

As Proposed City Planning Neighborhoods New Developments

Mission District Development Controls to Be Modified and Extended

February 27, 2017

The ‘Interim Controls’ to limit new market-rate housing, office and retail developments in the Mission District, which were adopted in January of last year and are scheduled to expire this…

Trends

Pending U.S. Home Sales Take a Hit, Particularly in the West

February 27, 2017

Having ticked up at the end of last year, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes an average level of activity, dropped up 2.8…

Bay Buildings City Planning Commercial Neighborhoods

The Quest to Reopen Julius’ Castle

February 27, 2017

As we wrote about this long-shuttered local landmark back in 2014: Having operated as a restaurant since 1922, but shuttered in 2007 amid allegations of landlord fraud and un-permitted renovations,…

Neighborhoods New Developments

Plans for Prominent SoMa Corner Slated for Approval

February 24, 2017

Speaking of major developments on Howard which could be approved next week, the refined plans for 124 apartments, over 14,000 square feet of ground floor retail/restaurant/commercial space and a basement…

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