Employment In San Francisco Hits An All-Time High
With the number of San Francisco residents with jobs having increased by 600 over the past month and up 9,400 over the past year, the unemployment rate in the city…
Tenderloin Rising: Plans For Eight-Stories Of Condos On Eddy
Plans to build an eight-story, market-rate residential building on Eddy Street, between Leavenworth and Hyde in the Tenderloin, have been submitted to Planning for review. As proposed by JS Sullivan…
Housing Balance Versus Housing Now
Supervisor Jane Kim is moving forward with a ballot measure which would require developers to obtain special authorization from the Planning Commission in order to build any market rate housing…
250-Foot Tower On Rincon Hill Ready To Rise
Plans to build a 200-foot, twenty-one story building with 51 dwelling units at 325 Fremont were first approved over a decade ago, plans which were revised in 2004 to yield…
Seven Stories And Seventy-Two New Condos In The Mission
The plans for a seven-story building with 72 condos to rise on the northwest corner of 16th Street and South Van Ness Avenue over in the Mission could be approved…
Bill To Freeze Ellis Act Evictions Rejected By Housing Committee
Senator Mark Leno’s proposed bill to curb speculative Ellis Act evictions in San Francisco has been rejected by the State Assembly’s Housing and Community Development Committee by a vote of…
Fed Cuts Stimulus But Intends To Keep Rates Low
Citing a rebound in economic activity while noting the housing sector remains slow (despite historically low interest rates and rising inventories), the Fed has announced another cut to its bond…
The Priciest One-Bedroom On The Market In San Francisco
Listed for $1,695,000 in early 2009, it sold for $950,000 that December. And three years later, the 1,004-square-foot one-bedroom #27B within the San Francisco Four Seasons on Market Street returned…
Loan Application Volumes Drop While Inventories Continue To Rise
Mortgage loan application volume for home purchases across the country fell 6 percent over the past week and loan activity is running 15 percent lower on a year-over-year basis. At…
Mayor Lee Counter Attacks Athletic Fields Renovation Measure
While the Coalition to Protect Golden Gate Park continues to gather signatures to support their proposed ballot measure which would require athletic fields in Golden Gate Park west of Crossover…