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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
Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Listings (for sale)

Hotaling Isn’t For Horses Anymore: The Penthouse Atop The Stables

July 10, 2012

Atop the landmark Barbary Coast building built as the Hotaling Stables in the 1860’s, a 3,195 square foot penthouse with an urban rooftop terrace and garden was constructed. Purchased for…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Listings (for sale)

While The Kitchen Is Still Red, Is 733 Front Street Back In The Black?

July 10, 2012

Purchased for $2,150,000 soon after the sales office at 733 Front Street opened in early 2007, the two-bedroom number 601 has returned to the market listed for $2,195,000. As plugged-in…

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Remodeling and Renovation

Before, After And Back On The Market Atop Cole Valley On Carmel

July 9, 2012

Purchased for $1,295,000 in June 2011, this past September permits were pulled to renovate, remodel and expand the upper Cole Valley home at 93 Carmel Street: The property as pictured…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

Mayor Lee To CPMC: Save St. Luke’s Or Cathedral Hill Campus Is DOA

July 9, 2012

With the appeal of Planning’s approval of CPMC’s comprehensive development plans having been pushed to next week, and new fears that CPMC isn’t committed to the long-term operation of its…

As Proposed Industry Stuff

32 Percent More Or Less Efficient In San Francisco Part Two

July 9, 2012

As we first reported this past March: Per San Francisco Building Code Section 1208.4, the smallest legal dwelling unit in San Francisco must have living room of at least 220…

Apples To Apples As Proposed Real Estate Economics

Noe Valley TIC Picked: September 2008 To Today

July 9, 2012

Purchased for $1,368,000 in September 2008, the sale of 1278 Church Street has closed escrow with a reported contract price of $1,425,000, up 4 percent on an apples-to-apples basis versus…

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale)

Asking $4.5 Million Per Bedroom (And There’s Only One)

July 5, 2012

Purchased as a two-bedroom with two baths for $3,025,000 in 2008 and since remodeled by architect Andrew Skurman as a one-bedroom with one and one-half baths, the 1,642 square foot…

Neighborhoods SocketSite Readers Report

No Comment From Ms. Brady (Nor Save Our Richmond Environment)

July 5, 2012

As a plugged-in reader reports, when you have a development project in San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood that requires City Planning review, you need to hold a pre-application meeting to notify…

Apples To Apples

With Overtime Running Out, A Hail Mary Is Caught (And Race Is Won)

July 5, 2012

Purchased for $630,000 in 2004, as plugged-in people knew the remodeled single-family home at 2542 39th Avenue which was listed as a short-sale for $490,000 six months ago was facing…

Neighborhoods Remodeling and Renovation

Life, 111 Liberty, And The Successful Pursuit Of Developer Happiness

July 5, 2012

As we first wrote about 111 Liberty in March: Purchased as a 2,350 square foot two-unit building for $1,335,000 in September 2010 with permits in place to add a new…

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  1. Fact on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

    What's the status update on socket site? AI chatbots still on strike?

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. 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…

  8. 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,…

  9. 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…

  10. 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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