Recorded San Francisco Sales Up 27.7% In July (Year-Over-Year)
Recorded home sales volume in San Francisco rose 27.7% on a year-over-year basis last month (567 recorded sales in July 2012 versus 444 sales in July 2011), down 3.2% as…
San Francisco’s Market Street Masonry Discontiguous District
Composed of eight buildings between Franklin and Valencia Streets, the “Market Street Masonry Discontiguous District” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But if you’d like to roll around the district,…
Apples-To-Apples And Year-Over-Year For Our Ex-Mayors Ex-Home
As we first reported last year, the sale of the ex-Mayor’s ex-home at 1581 Masonic closed escrow on July 13, 2011 with a reported contract price $2,750,000. As plugged-in people…
Foreclosure Activity Falls In San Francisco, Pipeline Down 31 Percent
Having dropped 17 percent from April to June, pre-foreclosure activity in San Francisco has fallen another 5 percent over the past two months with 378 properties in the pipeline, 33…
1355 Market Square Scoop: Three New Restaurants And A Grocery
As we first reported in June with respect to Shorenstein’s makeover of the Western Furniture Exchange & Merchandise Mart at 1355 Market Street, the 11-story Mid-Market building they’re re-branding along…
Historic Hibernia Bank Building: Then, Now And As Newly Proposed
Designed by Albert Pissis and constructed in 1892, the Hibernia Bank Building at 1 Jones and McAllister survived, for the most part, San Francisco’s great quake and fire of 1906.…
Parklet Or Piglet?
While many complain of Planning being too heavy-handed with respect to architecture and design in San Francisco, the parklet outside The Dancing Pig at 544 Castro has at least one…
Lofty Expectations For ClockTower #656
While recently painted and redecorated, the kitchen, baths and layout inside the 1,560 square ClockTower loft building #656 look to be relatively the same as when purchased for $1,085,000 ($695…
Inside The Old Wing’s Steam Laundry Building On Duboce
The old Wing’s Steam Laundry building on Duboce was taken down to the studs in 2008. Reconfigured and redesigned by Kennerly Architecture, the first of four new Tenancy in Common…
A Penthouse Apple Is Picked
Speaking of million-dollar-plus property sales, the sale of 42 Hotaling closed escrow this week with a reported contract price of $3,500,000, roughly $1,095 per square foot, eight (8) percent under…