Amongst The Gold Coast Mansions And Estates For $800 Per Foot
Boasting Golden Gate Bridge views, 3,900 square feet, five bedrooms and parking for two cars “amongst Gold Coast mansions & estates,” but in need of a bit of updating (“…in…
Planning Poised To Disapprove Developments On Ellis And Eddy
Approved for development in December 2004, the entitlements to develop two five-story buildings with a total of 46 affordable housing units at 519 Ellis and 430 Eddy expired three years…
South of Market Resource Survey Says…Five New Historic Districts
A request to approve the Planning Department’s recently completed South of Market (SoMa) Historic Resource Survey is another of the items on San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Commission agenda this afternoon.…
CoreLogic Claims NAR Overstates Sales And Understates 2010 Decline
The summary of CoreLogic’s February 2011 U.S. Housing and Mortgage Trends report: In 2010, home sales declined to the lowest level since the collapse in the housing market. The CoreLogic…
The Scene Of The Accident (And Proposed Liberty-Hill Alteration)
In front of San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Commission this afternoon, the application for exterior alterations and site work at 937 Valencia yields a rather bizarre background photo labeled “only known…
104 Laidley Returns Less A Little “Wonderful” (And “Green”)
As we wrote about 104 Laidley in early 2009 when listed for $1,095,000: Painted ladies and Tales of the City hillside abodes don’t have a monopoly on homes that scream…
Easing, Not Eliminating, The Option ARM Collateral Damage
“This was the year thousands of U.S. homeowners with option adjustable-rate mortgages were supposed to default as their payments spiked. Low interest rates and a surge of early delinquencies mean…
A Heights Of The Heights Apple Returns (1940 Broadway #6)
Listed for $4,350,000 in early 2008, the full sixth floor of The Heights (1940 Broadway #6) closed escrow that March with a reported contract price of $4,911,000. A few months…
Candlestick Point Woes Continue For More Than Cohen
While the Candlestick Point condo San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen lost to foreclosure remains listed for sale at $314,900 (having been purchased by Cohen for $518,178 in 2006), it’s a…
16 Percent Below 2003 For 140 South Van Ness #719
As we noted two months ago, 140 South Van Ness #719 purchased for $553,000 in November 2003, was taken back by the bank in 2009, and returned to the market…