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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

A Masterful Millennium Tower Floor Plan And Apples-To-Apples Sale

June 19, 2012

Purchased for $884,000 in March of 2010, 301 Mission Street #17C hit the market this past October listed for $849,000 before being withdrawn from the MLS in December. Relisted for…

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Marin (And Points North)

The House That Joe Boxer Bought And Re-Built With Phase 3 Profits

June 19, 2012

While the South Park gnomes haven’t figured out their underpants business, Nick Graham scored with Joe Boxer, the Phase 3 profits from which bought and rebuilt 26 Acorn Way. Purchased…

Trends

Housing Starts Slip From April To May But Up 28.5% Year-Over-Year

June 19, 2012

Housing starts in the U.S. slipped 4.8 percent from April to May, once again driven by a slowdown in the multi-family housing sector as starts for structures with five (5)…

Neighborhoods Seemingly Random

Vandals In SF: Mayoral Q&A (Question & Accusation)

June 18, 2012

Tomorrow’s question and accusation from Supervisor Wiener that Mayor Lee is scheduled to answer with a scripted response: Only a few days after the opening of the wonderful new children’s…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

A New Church And 100 Condos At Gough And Eddy, God Willing

June 18, 2012

Back in 1995, a fire destroyed the St. Paulus Evangelical Lutheran Church that once stood at the corner of Gough and Eddy Streets where a garden now grows. Currently home…

Apples To Apples SocketSite Readers Report

Renovated Marina Jewel Falls Short But Avoids The Courthouse Steps

June 18, 2012

As we reported this past March: Purchased for $2,500,000 in 2006, the renovated “Mediterranean Revival jewel” at 3737 Broderick Street, “just steps from the Marina Green and the St. Francis…

Real Estate Economics

How Are Bay Area Henrys Feeling About Housing?

June 18, 2012

Defined by Bloomberg as earning between $100,000 and $250,000 a year, the Bay Area has more than its fair share of High Earner Not Rich Yet “Henrys.” In 2010, retailers…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Trends

No Apples On Ames But A Taste For Modern And Healthy Appetite

June 18, 2012

As we first reported last month (and back in 2008): Following a Boor Bridges led renovation over which a reader waxed poetic and the builder chimed in, the 840 square…

Bay Buildings SocketSite Readers Report

Bank-Owned Landmark San Francisco Mansion Sells For $11.5M

June 15, 2012

Nine years after completing a reported $10 million (plus) renovation, the San Francisco Landmark Ellinwood Mansion at 2799 Pacific was foreclosed upon in 2009 with $11,363,000 owed and no bidders…

Trends

Reported San Francisco Employment Unchanged In May

June 15, 2012

Preliminary May labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties pegs the unemployment rates at 7.4%, 6.3% and 6.8% respectively, unchanged in San Francisco and San…

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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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