Potrero Hill Site Approved for Big Development Now in Play
While approved for the development of a 172-unit building with parking for 111 cars and 6,900 square feet of ground-floor retail space last month, the Potrero Hill parcel at 1301…
New Plans to End a Five-Year Battle over Building up in Nob Hill
The nearly five year fight over the proposed redevelopment of the two-story Nob Hill warehouse at 1469 Pacific Avenue will be continued for at least another couple of weeks. But…
Pending U.S. Home Sales Suddenly Skid
Having hit a ten-year high in April, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes an average level of activity, suddenly dropped 3.7 percent to…
The Grand Plan to Transform the Intersection of Market and Van Ness
In addition to potentially raising building height limits, allowing for more density, and setting the stage for a number of public realm improvements, such as new public open spaces and…
Airbnb Sues San Francisco
Arguing that its listings are protected by the First Amendment and a couple of Federal Communications Acts, regardless of whether or not said listings are for offerings which are illegal,…
Index for Bay Area Home Values Ticks up but Rate of Change Slows
The Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area gained 1.5 percent in April, hitting an all-time high and surpassing the previous cycle peak recorded in…
The Rerefined Plans for Razing Home and 60 Rentals to Rise
The plans for razing the long-shuttered Home restaurant at the Corner of Market and Church and constructing a four to seven-story building on the 2100 Market Street site were approved…
Price Reductions for Homes in San Francisco Hit a Four-Year High
In a trend we first noticed forming a year ago, the share of active listings for single-family homes and condos in San Francisco for which the original list price has…
Big Plans for a ‘Bombed-Out’ Oakland Building Site
Purchased for $1,050,000 last September, plans to level the former Holy Ground Fellowship building turned taggers paradise at 605 9th Street in Old Oakland, are in the works. And as…
Waylaid Mission District Development Slated for Approval
The waylaid plans to raze the shuttered Western Plywood warehouse at Harrison and 22nd Streets and construct a wedge-shaped, four-story building on the Mission District site are slated to be…