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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
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Second Street Tower Ready To Start Construction This Summer

February 19, 2013

Speaking of Tishman Speyer projects, first approved for development in 2010 and “diligently pursuing financing and preparing to start construction” ever since, Tishman is finally ready to start construction on…

Industry Stuff New Developments

Tishman Teams With China On 201 Folsom, Plans To Start Soon

February 19, 2013

Tishman Speyer is teaming with China Vanke Co. to finance the development of the 201 Folsom Street project. China Vanke will contribute $175 million and have a 70 percent stake…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Commercial Neighborhoods

San Francisco Giants Sign Anchor Brewing To Mission Rock Team

February 19, 2013

The San Francisco Giants have signed Anchor Brewing to renovate San Francisco’s Pier 48 and build new brewing, shipping, drinking, eating and educational facilities on the site, a true anchor…

Bay Buildings Neighborhoods RandomRumors Remodeling and Renovation SocketSite Readers Report

An Eleven Million Dollar Mansion Is Under Wraps Above The Haight

February 15, 2013

Former United States Ambassador James Hormel quietly sold his 8,000 square foot San Francisco mansion at 181 Buena Vista Avenue East for $7,200,000 early last year. While Hormel extensively remodeled…

Design & Architecture Neighborhoods New Developments

The Winning Design And Developer For Transbay Block 9

February 15, 2013

With a design by SOM and rendered by steeleblue, Avant Housing and Essex Property Trust have been selected by The Successor Agency to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to develop…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

Mercy Me: Hugo Hotel Is Historically Significant, The Plan To Mitigate

February 15, 2013

In order for Mercy Housing to move forward with their plans to build a new nine-story residential building with 67 affordable housing units on the corner of 6th and Howard…

Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

Muni Will Pay $131,250 Per Month To Lease The Pagoda Theater Site

February 14, 2013

As we reported last week: While Muni has a plan to demolish the derelict Pagoda Theater and extract the Central Subway tunneling machines from the North Beach site rather than…

Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions Remodeling and Renovation

If You’re Looking For A Last Minute Victorian Valentine…

February 14, 2013

Following a month on the market listed for $6,500,000, the asking price for the 8,229 square foot Victorian at 21 Buena Vista Avenue was reduced to $5,900,000 this morning. The…

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Recorded San Francisco Home Sales Hit Seven-Year Seasonal High

February 14, 2013

Recorded home sales in San Francisco rose 27.9% on a year-over-year basis last month (394 recorded sales in January 2013 versus 308 sales in 2012 and a seven-year seasonal high),…

Neighborhoods

Market Street Circa 1957 And Today: Time To Revisit A Sign District?

February 14, 2013

Proposition D which would have established a special Mid-Market sign district in San Francisco failed at the polls in 2009 with 45.91% of those who voted voting Yes and 54.09%…

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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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