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Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops Asking Rents in San Francisco Are Ticking Up, But… Benchmark Mortgage Rate Poised to Inch Down Asking Rents in Oakland Tick Up, Down Year-Over-Year Index Versus Reality for Another “Over Asking!” Sale
Neighborhoods Remodeling and Renovation

A Short-Sale Dream Turned Nightmare Take Two And An Artist’s Plea

January 16, 2014

Purchased for $525,000 in 2003 and refinanced in 2007 with a $700,000 loan, the one-bedroom cottage at 3066 Market Street was sold short for $485,000 in 2011, listed as a…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Designs For Mid-Market Building To Replace Den Of Adult Activities

January 16, 2014

The design for the proposed 8-story building to replace the adults-only Market Street Cinema incorporates boxed windows spanning multiple floors to create strong vertical lines across its Market Street façade…

Commercial Design & Architecture Neighborhoods New Developments

15-Story Mission Bay Hotel Slated For 2016 Opening And Four Stars

January 16, 2014

Originally zoned for the development of a 500-room hotel and up to 50,000 square feet of retail, Mission Bay Block 1 which fronts Channel between Third and Fourth Streets was…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Rates Drift Down Amid Signs Of Weakening Recovery

January 16, 2014

The average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage ticked down from 4.51 to 4.41 percent over the past week, 17 basis points below the 4.58 percent two-year high rate recorded…

Listings (for sale)

A Designer Noe Home Gets Its Due And Goes For $3.225 Million

January 15, 2014

As we wrote about the Dumican Mosey Architects designed home above in December: Listed for $3,400,000 on November 10 with “Offers Due” at 1pm on November 21, the high-end Noe…

Bay Buildings Neighborhoods Rentals

Mid-Market Rent Reductions: NEMA Drops A Few Dollars

January 15, 2014

When NEMA first started pre-leasing its North Tower units at Market and Tenth in early December, studios were priced starting at $2,575 per month for a 463-square-foot unit while one-bedrooms…

Trends

Fewer San Francisco Homes Sold In 2013 Versus 2012

January 15, 2014

In line with the drop in listed home sales we noted yesterday, the number of recorded San Francisco home sales in 2013 was 3.5 percent lower than the year before…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Bankers Lower Forecast As Mortgage Applications Drop

January 15, 2014

“Despite an economic outlook of steady growth and a recovering job market, mortgage applications have been decreasing – likely due to a combination of rising rates and regulatory implementation, specifically…

Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

Plans For Condos To Replace Prominent Mid-Market Porn Complex

January 14, 2014

Having drafted plans to raze the Market Street Cinema at 1075 Market Street and construct an 8-story building the site of the former “adult entertainment complex, that would have been…

Neighborhoods New Developments

8 Octavia Topped Out, Condos On Track For Summer Completion

January 14, 2014

The modern 47-unit building under construction at the intersection of Octavia and Market has topped out and 8 Octavia is on track to be ready for occupancy this summer.

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Recent Reader Activity
  1. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern Noe Valley Compound Now Listed for 33 Percent Less

    152 days after after the revised listing mentioned in the penultimate paragraph above, 1647 Sanchez's listing was removed from the…

  2. Brahma (incensed renter) on “Full(er) House” Home Back on the Market

    Sold for 7.7 percent under asking. From India Roby at Architectural Digest, yesterday, in a story headlined The Full House…

  3. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Apparently, developers believe that S.F. doesn't have enough office space. But the vacancy rate is rising. According to an article…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Construction of Prominent Hub District Tower Has Commenced

    Might have been underway when the above was posted, but we weren't kept plugged-in. Lendlease’s tower to rise at 30…

  5. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern New Development Fails to Sell, Taken Back by The Bank

    Grubber2 pretty much nailed it. Sold by Avidbank to HSH Holdings for $14 million, or about 13.6 percent under the…

  6. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    My bad. Even realtor dot com is now showing that correct amount in its listing. I should have not taken…

  7. steve on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    I think someone mistyped the HOA fees. Redfin is now showing that as $1,764/mo. It doesn't change your main point,…

  8. Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

    It's not all bad at The Millennium Tower, and we can take a look at the unit namelinked above by…

  9. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    Not only has the building — now dubbed Crescent Nob Hill — been completed since the above post, but certain…

  10. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Probably won't meaningfully decrease the amount of office space on the market. Google is pulling out of it's lease at…

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