Agents Take Next Step Toward Razing The Elbo Room
As we first reported last month, the owners of 645 Valencia Street which is currently leased to the Elbo Room have filed preliminary plans to raze the Mission district building…
Google Owns Over 10% Of Mountain View And Plans To Expand
Including 42 acres upon which Google has proposed to build a 1.2 million square foot Bay View campus (click to enlarge), Google now controls 250 parcels in Mountain View and…
Designs For New Condos On Clement Street Slated To Be Approved
As we first reported back in 2012 with respect to a Clement Street development which was quietly in the works at the time: While the neighbors and neighborhood groups haven’t…
Fixed Mortgage Rates Tick Up, Jumbos Remain Relatively Cheap
The average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage ticked up from 4.33 to 4.37 percent over the past week and is within 21 basis points of the 33-month high rate…
The Modern Maniscalco On 27th Street Fetches $3,775,000
Speaking of Maniscalco designed Noe homes, having been listed for $3,095,000, the sale of 630 27th Street has just closed escrow with a reported contract price of $3,775,000.
New Homes Sales Up In January, Inventory Up Even More
The seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. increased to an annual rate of 468,000 in January, up 2.2 percent year-over-year and the highest rate since…
Apples to Apples and Peak to Peak?
Purchased for $2,700,000 in August of 2007, the John Maniscalco designed home at 836 Alvarado is back on the market and listed for $2,599,000, a little under $800 per foot.…
Home Loan Purchase Activity At Lowest Level Since 1995
On a seasonally adjusted basis, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Purchase Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume for home purchases in the U.S., has fallen to its lowest level…
Condos Rather Than Cold Ones On Divisadero Street
A proposal to add four floors of residential space over the existing two-story garage at 834 Divisadero Street is making its way through Planning. Designed by Ian Birchall and Associates,…
A Couple Of Interesting Notes For Tomorrow’s Home Price Reports
A couple of things to keep in mind when reading tomorrow’s reports of home prices in San Francisco having gained 22.6 percent in 2013. The rate of appreciation has been…