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Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops Asking Rents in San Francisco Are Ticking Up, But… Benchmark Mortgage Rate Poised to Inch Down Asking Rents in Oakland Tick Up, Down Year-Over-Year Index Versus Reality for Another “Over Asking!” Sale

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Initiative to Challenge Law Which Limits Development

May 12, 2016

Approved by San Francisco voters in 1986, Proposition M established an annual cap on the amount of office space that’s allowed to be developed in the city. While the annual…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Drops to Three-Year Low

May 12, 2016

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has dropped to 3.57 percent, the lowest rate in three years and 40 basis points below the 3.97 percent rate in place…

Design & Architecture East Bay Neighborhoods New Developments

Contemporary West Oakland Infill at $367 per Square Foot

May 12, 2016

The lot upon which the contemporary West Oakland dwelling at 862 Wood Street has been built was purchased for $160,000 early last year, along with the approved and permitted plans…

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An Artful Bolinas Retreat and Resale

May 12, 2016

Designed by William Leddy and built on five acres overlooking the Bolinas Lagoon for a collector of Asian Art in 1994, the plans for the modern home at 40 Mesa…

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Epic Battle Heating up over the Monster in the Mission

May 11, 2016

A public hearing to review and collect comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the proposed 331-unit development to rise up to ten stories on the northeast corner of…

Design & Architecture Remodeling and Renovation

Mid-Century Hacienda in the Oakland Hills Fetches $726 Per Foot

May 11, 2016

Listed for $2.4 million, the remodeled 4,065-square-foot ‘Mid-Century Hacienda’ in the Oakland Hills which we featured last month has closed escrow with a reported contract price of $2.95 million or…

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Big Plans for the Burned-Out Big House Site

May 11, 2016

Demolished following a five-alarm blaze back in 2014, plans to construct a five-story building with 16 condos over nearly 8,000 square feet of new retail space on the site of…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture East Bay

No Atlas Shrug, More Like a High Five (or Six)

May 11, 2016

Listed for $232,000 less than the price which was paid for the rather exceptional Mid-Century Modern home at 10 Atlas Place two years ago, it shouldn’t come as too much…

Apples To Apples Neighborhoods

Under a Million (and Asking) in Excelsior

May 11, 2016

As we wrote at the end of last year: “One of the nearly 100 homes listed for sale in San Francisco for which the asking price has recently been reduced,…

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The Law That Could Ban the Vast Majority of Airbnb Listings in SF

May 10, 2016

With the vast majority of the San Francisco properties listed on Airbnb still not registered with the City as required by law, a new piece of legislation could require Airbnb…

Fact on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
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Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern Noe Valley Compound Now Listed for 33 Percent Less
152 days after after the revised listing mentioned in the penultimate paragraph above, 1647 Sanchez's listing was removed from the…
Brahma (incensed renter) on “Full(er) House” Home Back on the Market
Sold for 7.7 percent under asking. From India Roby at Architectural Digest, yesterday, in a story headlined The Full House…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops
Apparently, developers believe that S.F. doesn't have enough office space. But the vacancy rate is rising. According to an article…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Construction of Prominent Hub District Tower Has Commenced
Might have been underway when the above was posted, but we weren't kept plugged-in. Lendlease’s tower to rise at 30…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern New Development Fails to Sell, Taken Back by The Bank
Grubber2 pretty much nailed it. Sold by Avidbank to HSH Holdings for $14 million, or about 13.6 percent under the…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality
My bad. Even realtor dot com is now showing that correct amount in its listing. I should have not taken…
steve on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality
I think someone mistyped the HOA fees. Redfin is now showing that as $1,764/mo. It doesn't change your main point,…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
It's not all bad at The Millennium Tower, and we can take a look at the unit namelinked above by…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality
Not only has the building — now dubbed Crescent Nob Hill — been completed since the above post, but certain…

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