Will Millennials Tax Family Housing in SF or Flee with Kids in Tow?
San Francisco has the lowest percentage of children of any major city in the United States, with only 18 percent of San Francisco households including a child under 19 years…
200-Foot-Tall Mission Street Development Closer to Reality
While originally only zoned for development up to 120 feet in height, an amendment to allow a 21-story building to rise up to 200 feet on the SoMa parcel at…
Appraised for $1.8M but No Sale When Listed for $600K Less
Purchased as a Bernal Heights fixer for $580,000 in October of 2014, the 912-square-foot, one-bedroom house at 519 Nevada Street was flipped for $815,000 four months later with no improvements…
Supreme Court Denies Challenge of Warriors Arena Development
With the Golden State Warriors slated to ceremonially break ground for the development of their new Mission Bay Arena and office complex at noon today, California’s Supreme Court has just…
Lake Merritt Rising: The Plans for a Grand Parking Lot Parcel with Views
The site of a gas station from the mid-1940s to 1991, the service station at 500 Grand Avenue was demolished in 1992, its underground storage tanks were removed, and the…
Inventory of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Starts to Climb
Having increased by a hundred over the past week, the number of single-family homes and condos currently listed for sale in San Francisco now totals 401, which is 30 percent…
Foreclosed upon El Rey Theater Could Soon Be Landmarked
Designed by master architect Timothy Pflueger and opened in 1931, the 1,800-seat El Rey Theater at 1970 Ocean Avenue was shuttered and sold to Voice of Pentecost in 1977, which…
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Plans for Historic Tech Space on Howard
Plans to convert the two-story warehouse building at 1076 Howard Street into 15,000 square feet of open tech space are in the works, which includes an expansion of the building’s…
New Condo Sales Were 25 Percent Lower in San Francisco Last Year
While the number of purchase contracts signed for new condominiums in San Francisco ticked up from 32 in November to 55 last month, which was double the number signed in…
Nicolas Cage’s Loss Is on the Market, Priced for a $7 Million Gain
Purchased by Nicolas Cage by way of an anonymous trust for $9.4 million back in 2006, the Russian Hill mansion at 898 Francisco Street resold for $8.5 million in July…