San Francisco and East Bay Rents Little Changed Last Quarter
Following a nominal slip at the end of last year, the average asking rent for an apartment in a building with over 50 units in San Francisco inched up $4…
Contentious Affordable Housing Site Awarded to Developers
Identified by the Port of San Francisco as “the greatest affordable housing development opportunity among the Port’s seawall lots in the northeastern waterfront,” but having faced neighborhood pushback over just…
The Surprisingly Sophisticated Design for a Tower on Mission
From a distance, the proposed 54-story tower to rise at 518 Mission Street, the shorter of the two Oceanwide Center towers being designed by Foster + Partners and Heller Manus,…
Development to Replace Rincon Hill Gas Station Slated for Approval
While the public hearing for the proposed 14-story development to rise on the northwest corner of First and Harrison, a prominent Rincon Hill parcel currently occupied by a Union 76…
Back to 2005 in Bayview?
Purchased for $670,000 in 2005, the remodeled Bayview home at 1426 Van Dyke Avenue resold for $630,000 in 2007. And in 2012, the property was foreclosed upon and taken back…
Asking $10,000 per Square Foot in Palo Alto!
The 936-square-foot bungalow at 961 Lincoln Avenue in Palo Alto is now on the market for the first time in nearly a century and asking $9,998,000, or roughly $10,680 per…
A Record 63,400 Apartments and Condos in SF’s Housing Pipeline
With new proposals for over 2,000 units of housing having been submitted to the City in the first quarter of 2016, there are now a record 63,400 apartments and condos…
A Two-Bedroom Mission Condo Couldn’t Fetch its Below Market Rate
Nine months ago the Below Market Rate (BMR) deeded two-bedroom condo #403 at 1587 15th Street, “located right in the heart of the vibrant Mission/Valencia corridor” above the former 4505/Belcampo…
Pending Home Sales Drop in the West
While the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index rose 1.4 percent from 109.1 in February to 110.5 in March and measures 1.4 percent higher versus the same time…
That Designer Penthouse on Berry Is Back at $3.2 Million
Purchased for $2.35 million after we featured it in 2008, the designer remodeled two-bedroom penthouse #708 atop 255 Berry, which features a wood-paneled ceiling, walls and wide plank floors, returned…