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Another Reduction for the Redeveloped BrainWash Building/Site

July 6, 2022

Purchased for $4.6 million in February of 2018 and then remodeled to yield four office suites over an open 4,000-square-foot retail space, with four new bathrooms and a newly poured…

Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions

Price Cut(s) for Permitted Third Street Building to Rise

July 5, 2022

Acquired for $1,075,000 in the second quarter of 2018, with plans for a skinny six-story, seven-unit building to rise on the site having been drawn, the fire-damaged McAfee’s One Hour…

Breaking News Listings (for sale) Real Estate Economics RealRecentReductions Trends

Number of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Drops, But…

July 5, 2022

Driven by a typical slowdown in new listing activity prior to a holiday weekend, the net number of homes on the market in San Francisco (a.k.a “inventory”) dropped 10 percent…

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Premium for Renting in San Francisco Is Ticking Back Up

July 1, 2022

Having hit $3,500 at the end of May, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has since ticked up another 2 percent to $3,575 a month,…

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Bigger Than Bonus Plans for Polk Gulch Parking Garage Site

June 30, 2022

Having failed to sell at auction and survived a foreclosure scare, plans to entitle a bigger-than-bonus-sized tower to rise on the former National Guard armory turned parking garage site at…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Neighborhoods Trends

Masterfully Remodeled Noe Valley Home Fetches $1,400 Per Foot

June 29, 2022

Purchased in an off-market sale for $4.988 million or roughly $1,136 per square foot in March of 2019, the “masterfully remodeled,” 4,390-square-foot Noe Valley home at 2430 Castro Street returned…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Purchase Mortgage Activity in the U.S. Down Over 20 Percent

June 29, 2022

Mortgage loan application volume in the U.S., which dropped to a 22-year low a few weeks ago, inched up 0.7 percent over the past week on a seasonally adjusted basis.…

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Index for Bay Area House Values Ticks up 2.2 Percent

June 28, 2022

Having jumped a downwardly revised 4.3 percent in March, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay,…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Inch Up, Drop Year-Over-Year

June 28, 2022

Having dropped 3.9 percent in April to a near decade low, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, a seasonally adjusted index for which 100 denotes “an average…

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Over Twice as Many Homes on the Market in S.F. Than in 2019

June 27, 2022

Despite a slowdown in the number of homes that have been newly listed for sale over the past month, the net number of homes on the market in San Francisco,…

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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Another Reduction for the Redeveloped BrainWash Building/Site

Price Cut(s) for Permitted Third Street Building to Rise

Number of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Drops, But…

Premium for Renting in San Francisco Is Ticking Back Up

Bigger Than Bonus Plans for Polk Gulch Parking Garage Site

Masterfully Remodeled Noe Valley Home Fetches $1,400 Per Foot

Purchase Mortgage Activity in the U.S. Down Over 20 Percent

Index for Bay Area House Values Ticks up 2.2 Percent

Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Inch Up, Drop Year-Over-Year

Over Twice as Many Homes on the Market in S.F. Than in 2019

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