A Tough Week On The Street And Close To Home
As we wrote under the headline, “Look Past The Overhyped Facebook Effect” in February: Forget the overhyped Facebook effect (a.k.a. “buy now or be priced out forever 2.0”) and simply…
Accusations Of San Francisco Assessor-Recorder Office Impropriety
Accusations of impropriety within San Francisco’s Office of the Assessor-Recorder have been lobbed over at mungpao.com. According to the site, a fundraiser and political friend of San Francisco Assessor-Recorded Phil…
Setting: Hotel SoMa’s Suspended Swimming Pool. And…Action!
“I can imagine an old 1970s disaster movie with an earthquake and a pin-up swimmer: close-up to her horrified eyes looking at the crack in the glass becoming longer and…
From The Courthouse Steps To Our Apple Cart On Third
As we wrote about a two-bedroom Central Waterfront condo in April: Having sold as new for $459,000 in the year 2000 and refinanced in 2007 with a $525,000 first, 2030…
From 76 Station To 88 Apartments At 2175 Market Street As Proposed
Having acquired the land on which the 76 Station at the intersection of 15th and Market Streets sits last year, Forest City is now joining the fray of Market Street…
Hotel SoMa (690 Fifth Street) Plans Back In The Pipeline And Pool
Speaking of developments in the hotel space, plans for the proposed Hotel SoMa to rise at 690 Fifth Street have been dusted off and the developers are shopping for financing.…
U.S. Pending Sales Up 14.4% YOY But Slide 5.5% MOM In April
While the rate of U.S. home price declines slowed to a nominal 0.1 percent in March, the National Associations of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index fell 5.5 percent from March…
The Daytime Downside To The Development Of Mission Bay
A plugged-in reader reports: Mission Bay is a pretty godawful place to be during the day now due to the relentless pile-driving going on as part of these new developments.…
From Renderings To Reality (So To Speak) At 2299 Market Street
Originally rendered with an Apple store below, then re-rendered with simply STORE, it’s a plugged-in tipster that notes Bank of the West has filed an application to occupy fill the…
401 Grove Street Gets Its Groove On Despite Intimations Otherwise
Last July, San Francisco’s Planning Commission approved the development of 63 residential units over 5,000 square feet of ground floor retail and 37 parking spaces (32 residential, 3 commercial, and…