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Modern $10 Million Cow Hollow Home in Contract

April 21, 2023

Quietly purchased for $9.75 million in March of 2015, which was nearly 23 percent more than the home had fetched in 2012, despite the “short term hold” and it having…

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Bay Area Employment Inches Up, Unemployment Rate as Well

April 21, 2023

Having dropped by 5,400 at the beginning of the year, the net number of people living in San Francisco with a job has since ticked back up by 3,500 to…

City Planning Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods Trends

Another Dormant Development Site Making the Rounds

April 21, 2023

Plans for bonus-sized development to rise up to 65 feet in height on the the shuttered Firestone Complete Auto Care shop at 2800 Geary Boulevard and yield 42 “light-filled” residential…

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Oakland A’s East Bay Ballpark Deal and Development Is Dead

April 20, 2023

The Oakland A’s have finalized a deal to purchase a 49-arce site off the Las Vegas Strip, across the freeway from the T-Mobile Arena and a little north of the…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Ticks Up, Odds of a Hike as Well

April 20, 2023

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up, not down, 12 basis points (0.12 percentage point) over the past week to 6.39 percent. As such, the average 30-year…

Commercial East Bay Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Real Estate Economics Trends

East Bay Office Landlords Trying to Hold Firm, But…

April 19, 2023

The office vacancy rate in the East Bay, not including Walnut Creek or further east, nor life science/lab space, which is a methodological change, ticked up 80 basis points in…

Breaking News Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Home Buying Activity in the U.S. Drops

April 19, 2023

Having briefly rebounded last week, purchase mortgage application volume for existing homes in the U.S. has since dropped 9 percent in the absolute and 10 percent on a seasonally adjusted…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Real Estate Economics Trends

A Quick “Over Asking” Lumina Sale!

April 18, 2023

Listed for $899,000 last month, the bright Lumina Plaza unit #7C at 333 Beale Street, a 916-square-foot, one-bedroom unit with a den/office and extra half-bath, was in contract within two…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

New Home Purchase Activity Inches Up, Average Loan Size Down

April 18, 2023

Mortgage loan application volume for new homes across the U.S. ticked up 10 percent from February to March with typical seasonality in play. On a year-over-year basis, however, mortgage application…

Breaking News Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Real Estate Economics Trends

Number of Homes on the Market in S.F. Trending Up, Sales Down

April 17, 2023

Having atypically ticked down earlier this month, the net number of single-family homes and condos on the market in San Francisco has since started to tick back up, driven by…

Brahma (incensed renter) on Looking for (Another) Sub-2014 Priced High-End Loft?
The owner apparently disagreed, and tried the leasing option. Roughly a month after the above main post, Apt 602's listing…
Conifer on Seized Pac Heights Home Listed with a $14M Price Tag
Perhaps Brahma should take over SocketSite and bring it back to life. I am just a long-term, half a century,…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Seized Pac Heights Home Listed with a $14M Price Tag
You were spot on for the selling price, but years off on the time frame. After several listing removal and…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Motivated Sellers Drop Price for Light Filled Dogpatch Loft, Again
The AI Boom! continues to show the incredible impact of wealth creation in S.F. and on S.F. real estate. 578…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards
Then the owner should sell the property to someone who can get the job done. Apparently the Y-I-M-B-Ys are apparently…
tipster on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards
Ha ha, "upon the slopped site" Little did the editor realize the foreshadowing of this typo in the 2019 post.…
Notcom on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards
I've never heard of a billboard holding up a project - and can a billboard really be "demolished"? - so…
The Milkshake of Despair on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards
No update, just a guess that the developer realized a modern new development was not going to attract the offers…
Marcus on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards
It's now seven years since this posting. Any update? Seems Mavrik Studio is out of business.
Brahma (incensed renter) on Dolores Park Light House Condo Listed for a Million Less
I completely agree, and if you're looking for a natural test of whether or not the extremely heated market dynamics…

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