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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
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17 Stories And 273 Rental Units Ready To Rise At 55 9th Street

June 8, 2012

First approved for development in 2007 and having since been sold to AvalonBay, the construction of 17 stories at 55 9th Street with 273 rental units over ground floor retail…

As Proposed Breaking News

TIC Lottery Bypass Legislation Will Be Introduced Next Week

June 8, 2012

As we first reported two weeks ago: While conspicuously absent from the Mayor’s Housing Trust Fund proposal, according to a plugged-in reader, condo conversion lottery bypass legislation will be introduced…

Bay Buildings Being Green Neighborhoods SocketSite Readers Report

Mid-Market’s Newest Secret Garden

June 8, 2012

Speaking of the reincarnation of 1355 Market Street, a plugged-in tipster captures Twitter’s rooftop garden which has been rising atop the building. In the words of our tipster who lives…

Apples To Apples Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Seemingly Random

Taking A Pricing Cue From The Industry (But Not An Agent)

June 7, 2012

Purchased for $900,000 in 2005, the Miraloma Park home at 440 Teresita Boulevard was put on the market in 2009 listed for $1,200,000 but failed to attract a buyer. Taking…

Bay Buildings Commercial Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Market Square’s Mid-Market Retail Revolution

June 7, 2012

As we noted yesterday, the reincarnation of 1355 Market Street and the adjoining 875 Stevenson Street, together “Market Square,” will include almost 100,000 square feet of potential new retail space…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Rates Hit All-Time Lows (Yes, Again)

June 7, 2012

According to Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates averaged 3.67 percent (with 0.7 points) for the week ending today, another new all-time low, down from…

Bay Buildings

The Price To Live On San Francisco’s Postcard Row

June 7, 2012

The sale of 710 Steiner along San Francisco’s famed Postcard Row closed escrow yesterday with a reported contract price of $2,400,000 ($960 per listed square foot). As we first reported…

Bay Buildings Commercial Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

The Tweet Reincarnation Of 1355 Market Street

June 6, 2012

With Twitter having signed on as the anchor tenant, Shorenstein is moving forward with their makeover of the Western Furniture Exchange & Merchandise Mart at 1355 Market Street, the 11-story…

Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Seemingly Random

Real Estate Linkbait Listbait™

June 6, 2012

Purchased for $980,000 or $445 per listed square foot in 2006 as a four-bedroom single-family home in need of work, 2207 17th Avenue has since been remodeled, expanded, and re-listed…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale)

Another Quick Flip For Our Ex-Mayor’s Ex-Home On Masonic?

June 6, 2012

As we first reported last July: “…the sale of the ex-Mayor’s ex-home at 1581 Masonic closed escrow today with a reported contract price $2,750,000. As plugged-in people know, the Newsoms…

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    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…

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