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Lurking Behind This Larkin Street Penthouse Wall: The Office

November 1, 2012

Penthouse #6 atop the Russian Hill building at 2555 Larkin Street was purchased for $1,950,000 in 2002 in need of updating, and updated it was (click floor plan to enlarge).…

Design & Architecture Neighborhoods New Developments SocketSite Readers Report

Trinity Place Phase Two: Timing And Reality Check

October 31, 2012

As originally designed, approved, and rendered, the 22-story second phase of Trinity Place rising at 1190 Mission Street was to feature a glass and aluminum curtain wall wrapping around its…

Apples To Apples Real Estate Economics Trends

Actual Versus “The Index” For A Contemporary Corona Heights Home

October 30, 2012

Purchased for $2,275,000 in 2002 and unsuccessfully listed for $2,995,000 in 2007 and $2,295,000 in 2010, the contemporary Corona Heights home at 438 Roosevelt sold last week with a reported…

Bubble (Or Not) Real Estate Economics

It’s Time To Acquire A New Garage Up In Pacific Heights

October 30, 2012

Once again, previous owners of the Pacific Heights home at 1945 Franklin Street have included Nicholas Cage and Patricia Arquette. And as plugged-in people know, the infamous Excalibur with “ACQUIRE”…

Trends

San Francisco Home Values Tick Up, Condos Up 11.1 Percent YOY

October 30, 2012

According to the August 2012 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home values in the San Francisco MSA gained 0.5% from July 2012 to August 2012 and are up 5.3% year-over-year…

Neighborhoods Remodeling and Renovation

Back (And “Over”) on Day for a Million Dollars More

October 29, 2012

As we wrote about the gutted home at 324 Day Street back in 2009: Purchased for $1,053,000 in 2007, the single-family 324 Day was subsequently gutted, foreclosed upon and returned…

As Proposed Neighborhoods

There’s Room To Grow, And Plans To Do So, Out On Clement

October 29, 2012

While the neighbors and neighborhood groups haven’t yet been notified, the owner of the single-story building at 3038 Clement Street is quietly working on plans to raze the “European Food”…

As Proposed Commercial Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Transbay Tower Slated For 2014 Groundbreaking, Occupancy In 2017

October 29, 2012

With the 1,070 foot tall Tansbay Tower having been approved to rise at 101 First Street, and Hines having partnered with Boston Properties to purchase the site and finance the…

As Proposed Commercial Neighborhoods New Developments Real Estate Economics

San Francisco’s Housing Pipeline: 4,200 New Units On The Way

October 26, 2012

As we first reported earlier this year, with 372,831 total housing units in San Francisco, a third of which are single-family homes and only a quarter of which are in…

Bay Buildings Commercial Neighborhoods

Square’s Mid-Market To Mid-Market Move

October 26, 2012

Plans to add a “chef’s kitchen and other amenities” for employees of Square are underway at 1455 Market Street, with the company’s six block move from its current Mid-Market headquarters…

Fact on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…

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Lurking Behind This Larkin Street Penthouse Wall: The Office

Trinity Place Phase Two: Timing And Reality Check

Actual Versus “The Index” For A Contemporary Corona Heights Home

It’s Time To Acquire A New Garage Up In Pacific Heights

San Francisco Home Values Tick Up, Condos Up 11.1 Percent YOY

Back (And “Over”) on Day for a Million Dollars More

There’s Room To Grow, And Plans To Do So, Out On Clement

Transbay Tower Slated For 2014 Groundbreaking, Occupancy In 2017

San Francisco’s Housing Pipeline: 4,200 New Units On The Way

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