Plans for Infilling Pacific Heights
Plans for an infill building to rise up to four stories in height on the parking lot parcel between the John F. Kennedy Towers at 2451 Sacramento Street and the…
An Opportunity to Capitalize on a Bernal Heights Blaze
The fire that consumed the former Cole Hardware at 3312 Mission Street and badly damaged the adjacent buildings – including the Graywood Hotel at 3308 Mission, a single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotel…
Bay Area Home Sales Dropped Nearly 10% in December, More in SF
The estimated number of Bay Area single-family homes and condos that traded hands this past December (7,136) was 9.1 percent lower than in December 2015, having dropped 4.4 percent from…
A Case Study in Mission District Development versus Displacement
With the controversial plan for preserving San Francisco’s Mission District one step closer to adoption, a real world example of development versus potential displacement, and existing rent-controlled versus new market-rate…
Bay Area House Values Slip, Condos Inch Up
Having inched up in October, 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 Peninsula…
Raiders Move Closer to Reality without Casino Magnate’s Money
As we foreshadowed when the Oakland Raiders formally filed their application to move the franchise to Las Vegas two weeks ago, Goldman Sachs was positioned to fund any financing gap…
Plan to Preserve the Mission District Revealed
The draft plan to retain low to moderate income residents and community-serving businesses, artists and nonprofits in San Francisco’s Mission District has just been released for public review. The Mission…
Pending U.S. Home Sales Ticked up at the End of 2016
Having dropped 2.5 percent in November to its second lowest level of the year, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes an average level…
Punk Rocker’s Noe Valley Pad on the Market for $3.6 Million
It’s probably not the pad you envisioned for a punk rocker, but the Noe Valley home at 665 29th Street, which is owned by Eric Melvin, the lead guitarist for…
The Art to Adorn Van Ness
The construction of the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project that’s now underway includes a public art component which the Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo has been commissioned to fulfill.…