U.S. Housing Starts Take A Big Hit
Driven by a 44 percent drop in multifamily units, housing starts in the U.S. fell to a 519,000 annual rate in October, down 12 percent from September and the slowest…
FHA: Not Out Of The Woods But Feeling A Little Less Lost
The Federal Housing Administration released its annual report to Congress on the financial status of its Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund today. Since last year, the FHA’s capital reserve ratio fell…
The Vision For 899 Valencia On The Northeast Corner Of 20th
It’s another underutilized infill site that’s been caught up in the Eastern Neighborhoods Area Plan development log jam which is finally starting to free. On northeast corner of Valencia and…
A Contract To Preserve 1818 California (Lilienthal-Orville Pratt House)
San Francisco Landmark #55, the Board of Supervisors will vote this afternoon on a Mills Act historical property contract for the Lilienthal-Orville Pratt House at 1818 California. In exchange for…
Louis Christian Mullgardt Meets Eden and Eden At 226 Edgewood
We weren’t too sure what to make of the juxtaposition between old and new when 226 Edgewood first hit the market three weeks ago asking $3,500,000, so we’ll turn to…
Belli Would Be Fired Up As 2950 Broadway Is Reduced By $5,600,000
As we wrote in May of 2009: It’s the outer Broadway mansion from which Melvin Belli ran naked “firing a pistol at his wife who hosted a real estate show…
Central Subway Eminent Domain And Last Resort Housing Plan
As the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency scrambles to fund the non-federal portion of San Francisco’s Central Subway Project, this afternoon San Francisco’s Land Use and Economic Development Committee tackles…
San Francisco’s Seasonal Listed Housing Slide Underway
Inventory of listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco fell 7.6% over the past three weeks to 1,834 active listings. On average, inventory has fallen 5.7% during the…
Dear Santa, A Pony And Two Hundred Million For A Subway Please…
Earlier this year the Federal green light and initial funds were given for San Francisco to enter the final design stage for the $1.6 billion Central Subway project, but the…
One Rincon (Back) Up To 87 Percent Sold
Purchased for $2,019,000 ($1,037 per square foot) in September 2008, 425 1st Street #3004 returned to the market five months ago asking $1,998,000 ($1,026 per square). Reduced, delisted and relisted…