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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
Listings (for sale)

Live Long (And Prosper?) Walking Up The Stairs To 1 Vulcan

March 10, 2011

Accessed by way of the Vulcan stairway, 1 Vulcan was built in 1908 and “encompasses three floors of living space with grand vistas of the bay and the surrounding gardens.”…

Bay Buildings

Westin San Francisco Headed For Auction? No.

March 10, 2011

While the Chronicle reports the Westin San Francisco hotel appears to be headed for auction but couldn’t confirm, we can confirm the Westin’s $22,000,000 in Senior Mezzanine Debt which had…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale) Remodeling and Renovation

An Apple (For Now) At 135 Rue Locust

March 10, 2011

Built in 1906, the “Cape Cod” styled Presidio Heights home at 135 “Rue” Locust has been rather nicely remodeled and updated since. And speaking of remodeling, three months ago a…

Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Listings (for sale)

Can You Name That Issue In 17 (Interior) Photos Or Less?

March 9, 2011

Another of the 32 residential units atop the Montgomery Washington Tower, 611 Washington #2502 is on the market and asking $3,995,000 for the 2,624 two-bedroom “featured in Architectural Digest.” Bonus…

Apples To Apples

You Make The Call On Rich Aurilia’s Berry Street Play

March 9, 2011

As we wrote in January: Asking $1,950,000 in September 2006, the three-bedroom condo atop 255 Berry Street known as #610 was purchased by former San Francisco Giants #35 Rich Aurilia…

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Purchase Activity In The U.S. Is Up (WOW) And Down (YOY)

March 9, 2011

With average 30-year mortgage rates up by 9 basis points over the past week to 4.93%, mortgage application volume for purchases in the U.S. increased 14.3% versus the week before…

Industry Stuff

Just “52 Days On The Market” (And $789 Per Square) For 41 Castle

March 9, 2011

As a plugged-in reader notes, the sale of 41 Castle closed escrow yesterday with a reported contract price of $2,500,000 ($789 per square foot). The 3,170 square foot recently rebuilt…

Bay Buildings Listings (for sale) SocketSite Readers Report

The Very Short Sale Of 2225 23rd Street

March 9, 2011

On Friday we noted the “very short sale” listing for 2225 23rd Street #316 at $150,000 versus the $395,000 which was paid in 2005. On Monday a plugged-in reader wrote:…

Apples To Apples

Three Percent Over 2003 But Remodeled (And Auctioned) In Between

March 9, 2011

Unfortunately the sale of 108 Bronte for a reported $579,000 last week isn’t apples-to-apples with its sale for $560,000 in July 2003 as the South Bernal Heights home was remodeled…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Neighborhoods

1945 Hyde As Proposed And Opposed In Russian Hill

March 8, 2011

Built in 1920, the two-story and 19,739 square foot parking garage at the corner of Hyde and Russell contains 58 parking spaces. As proposed, the Russian Hill garage would be…

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