Benchmark Mortgage Rate Drops to One-Year Low
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year loan has dropped to 3.59 percent, down 12 basis points over the past week to the lowest rate in over a year and…
Local Development Advocate and Realtor Arraigned for Voter Fraud
Local development advocate and Realtor Donald Dewsnup has been arraigned on charges of registering to vote using a false address and providing a false address to the California Bureau of…
Unfinished Pac Heights Flip Fetches $4.7M
Purchased for $4.1 million in December of 2014 and relisted for $6.5 million the following September along with plans to transform the legal 3-unit building into a contemporary 7,000-square-foot home,…
Oakland Adopts Emergency Rent Control
A whittled down 90-day moratorium on rent increases that surpass the annual change in the Consumer Price Index (which has been running around one percent per year) was adopted by…
Sixth Street Development Site in Play
Approved for the development of 104 apartments last year, the 363 6th Street site upon which the former bondage dungeon turned City Life Church building currently sits, a block away…
San Francisco’s Future Transbay Park and Foreshadowing
A plugged-in tipster delivers the latest rendering for San Francisco’s future Transbay Park, the construction of which is currently slated to commence in early 2018 (once the operations of the…
Here’s the Deal with This Little Guy
You’ve likely never seen it before. And if you don’t see it soon, you likely never will. For as proposed and slated to be approved by the City this week,…
Noe Valley’s next 5,000-Square-Foot Home (and Possibly Two)
With the ground having been broken for the modern 4,820-square-foot home to rise at 645 Duncan Street, a project which was rather ironically challenged and then nearly scrapped in order…
Blockbuster Duboce Triangle Infill in the Works
Plans for redeveloping the underdeveloped parking lot at 55 Belcher Street, behind the former Blockbuster at 158 Church, are in the works. And as proposed, a four-story building with 25…
Three Months Later and Seeking a Million More
Listed for $6.995 million last year, the sale of the five-bedroom Pacific Heights home at 2470 Broadway closed escrow with a contract price of $6.5 million three months ago. And…