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Telegraph Hill Masterpiece Now Listed for Nearly 40 Percent Less

Telegraph Hill Masterpiece Now Listed for Nearly 40 Percent Less

Designed by Lewis Butler of Butler Armsden Architects and built near the peak of “the highest hill in the coveted neighborhood of Telegraph Hill,” the new four-level, three-bedroom home at 119 Telegraph Hill Boulevard hit the market priced at $15.995 million early last year, accompanied by a number of... Read More »

Foreclosure Auction for Infamous Sea Cliff Mansion Postponed

Foreclosure Auction for Infamous Sea Cliff Mansion Postponed

As we first revealed last year, the private stairway behind the infamous seven-bedroom home at 224 Sea Cliff Avenue, which leads down to the secluded cove below and has been a frequently touted selling point for the property, appears to have been built beyond the property lines of the... Read More »

Signature Lumina Condo Fetches Over $2,000 Per Square Foot!

Signature Lumina Condo Fetches Over $2,000 Per Square Foot!

Featuring sweeping Bay and Bridge views, along with three bedrooms, three full baths and a large media room/office, the 2,685-square-foot, signature corner unit #30B atop the Lumina tower at 338 Main Street has just traded for $5.45 million or $2,030 per square foot.  As some might say, that’s not... Read More »

Chop, Chop

Chop, Chop

The rather spectacular new building at 15-17 Guy Place, which replaced a little single-family home, hit the market priced at $15 million in March of 2021, positioned as an “almost 8,000-square-foot, seven-level residence,” with a 5,115-square-foot, 5-bedroom main residence (17 Guy Place) over an 1,870-square-foot, 2-bedroom guest residence (15... Read More »

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Slips, Poised to Drop.  But…

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Slips, Poised to Drop. But…

Measured prior to yesterday’s quarter point hike by the fed, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage had inched back down 4 basis points (0.04 percentage point) over the past week to 6.39 percent, offsetting the 4 basis point rise the week prior. As such, the average 30-year... Read More »

Re-Revised Plans for Overturned Development Closer to Reality

Re-Revised Plans for Overturned Development Closer to Reality

With San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors having overturned the revised plans for a 13-story, mixed-use building to rise on the site of the columned Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist at 450 O’Farrell Street, revised plans which would have yielded around 300 “Group Housing” units on the site rather than... Read More »

Homebuying Activity Slips, Jumbo Loan Appetite Has Dropped

The number of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for an existing home in the U.S. ticked down a (1) percent over the past week. And having ticked down two (2) percent on a seasonally adjusted basis, purchase mortgage activity was 32 percent lower than at the same... Read More »

Exceptional NoPa Condo Fetches an “Over Asking” Price, But…

Exceptional NoPa Condo Fetches an “Over Asking” Price, But…

Purchased for $1.42 million in July of 2018, the two-bedroom condo at 1735 Grove, in a three-unit building “on a quiet, tree-lined street in the heart of NOPA,” was subsequently remodeled to include a showcase kitchen, with custom cabinetry, high-end appliances, quartz countertops and a new breakfast bar and... Read More »

Vacant Residential Development Repositioned, Reduced

Vacant Residential Development Repositioned, Reduced

Designed and developed by Stanley Saitowitz, the modern new 25-unit building at 603 Tennessee Street, across the street from UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus, a block from Chase Center and a short walk from the commercial corridors of both Dogpatch and Mission Bay, was condo mapped, but efforts to sell... Read More »

Asking Prices Drop in San Francisco, Inventory Keeps Ticking Up

Despite some misleading industry reports making the round and parroted in the press, the net number of homes on the market in San Francisco ticked up another 2 percent over the past week. While inventory levels are still 2 percent lower than at the same time last year, they’re... Read More »