Contractor Caught Demolishing a Historic Facade
Purchased by a local contractor for $1.282 million in March of 2012, plans to allow the construction of a new garage, a new entry stair and “minor façade alterations” to…
Mortgage Rates Move up along with the Odds of a June Hike
Ending a three-week slide, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up 10 basis points over the past week to 4.19 percent and is now running 40 basis…
Potrero Hill Penthouse Now Listed at a Loss
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…
New U.S. Home Sales Drop despite Most Inventory since 2009
The seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. dropped 10.4 percent in December. And with a pace of 536,000 annual sales, the rate was 0.4 percent…
Complaints Related to Airbnb-ing in SF More Than Doubled Last Year
While Mayor Ed Lee vetoed the short-term rental law approved by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors last year, publicly arguing that the legislation would have made registration and enforcement of…
110-Unit Dogpatch Development Closer to Reality
Plans to raze the two-story industrial building at 888 Tennessee Street, which is currently home to Amazon Flex and Color Graphics, and construct a new four-story building, with 110 residential…
Polk Street Parcel with Plans for a Modern Addition in Play
Plans to construct a modern six-story addition atop the historic two-story building at 1033 Polk Street were first floated back in 2014, as we originally reported at the time. As…
Plans for an Infill Mandela Hotel in Emeryville
Speaking of new hotels, plans for a 220-room hotel to rise on the vacant Caltrans lot to the south of the Emeryville Target have been drafted and will be reviewed…
Refined Designs and Timing for a New Cow Hollow Hotel
Plans to level the 40-room Pacific Heights Inn at 1555 Union Street have been in the works for a couple of years. And as proposed, a 100-room hotel designed by…
Existing Home Sales in the U.S. Hit a 10-Year High in 2016
Existing-home sales in the U.S. hit a ten year high in 2016, ending the year with 5.45 million sales versus 5.25 million sales in 2015 and 6.48 million sales in…