Asking $22 Million for a Stately Pacific Heights Compound
Purchased as a legal three-unit building, which had long been used as a single-family home, for $7.3 million in early 2014, an application to merge two of the three units…
Boosters’ Appeal of Potrero Development Denied
The Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association has lost its appeal of Martin Building Company’s approved development of 127 apartments and a Del Popolo pizzeria at 88 Arkansas and 17th Street, across…
More Density and Modern Design for Polk Gulch Project Proposed
As originally proposed in 2013, and approved the next year, the one-story City Rent-A-Car building at 1433 Bush Street, between Polk and Van Ness, was to be razed, and in…
Median Home Price Hits $1.3M in SF as Bay Area Sales Slow
Bay Area home sales dropped 7.3 percent in April versus the same time last year, with all nine counties recording a decline, ranging from 2.6 percent in Contra Costa to…
Raising the Roof and Density in Noe Valley
Purchased for $1.229 million in 2006, the “Recently RENOVATED” Noe Valley home with “Breathtaking WATER VIEWS” at 437 Hoffman returned to the market listed for $1.495 million in 2009 and…
Bonus Height Debate Turned Up to Eleven and 100 Percent
Four months ago we reported that the debate over San Francisco’s proposed Affordable Housing Bonus Program (AHBP), which would allow market-rate developers to build up to two stories higher than…
First eBay Employee’s Home Fetches $16.5 Million
Listed for $19.988 million in January, the asking price for the 14,000-square-foot Los Altos Hills home owned by Jeff Skoll, the first employee and former President of eBay, was reduced…
Progress for Big Oakland Project Which Could Have Been Bigger
Identified as Opportunity Site #6 in Oakland’s Lake Merritt Station Area Plan, the 226 13th Street parcel, which is currently a parking lot bounded by 13th, Jackson, 14th and Alice…
Sale of $39M East Bay Estate Is Going to the Dogs
Built for Dave Duffield, the co-founder of PeopleSoft (which was acquired by Oracle in 2005) and Workday, the 22-acre Fieldhaven estate at 7 Country Oak Lane in Alamo is now…
State Legislation Could Streamline Development in San Francisco
Governor Brown’s proposed Streamlining Affordable Housing Approvals bill could potentially fast track the approval and permitting process for tens of thousands of units in San Francisco’s housing pipeline, allowing code…