Pommes Des Pommes (And A La Cornue) At 159 Cervantes
Purchased for $2,050,000 in June 2007 the single-family Marina home at 159 Cervantes is back on the market in 2010 asking $1,895,000 (8 percent less). We’re assuming the “Le Cornufe”…
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Purchased for $2,050,000 in June 2007 the single-family Marina home at 159 Cervantes is back on the market in 2010 asking $1,895,000 (8 percent less). We’re assuming the “Le Cornufe”…
While terms of the federal homebuyer tax credit originally required a signed contract by April 30 and closing by June 30, Congress has extended the closing date to September 30…
Sorry folks, but as noted, we screwed the proverbial pooch when we originally posted our reader’s S&P 500 versus Case-Shiller Index chart. Our greatest sin of which we do know…
Unhappy with plans for the proposed Noe Valley Plaza and a perceived lack of being heard, a few voices were raised during a Planning Department presentation last night. Via Noe…
A plugged-in reader plots the past ten years of S&P performance versus the composite* Case-Shiller Index. Currently up 11 percent year-over-year, the S&P 500 has fallen 13.6 percent since the…
The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index (“a forward-looking indicator”) fell 30 percent from April (110.9) to May (77.6). All seasonality and now stimulus aside, the index fell…
A sister development to the cater corner Broadway Family Apartments which received 8,500 applications for its 80 apartments in 2008, the proposed affordable housing development at 235 Broadway would replace…
Since the sale of CBS’s infamous “42 offer home” at 555 Edinburgh closed escrow in April of 2009 for “24 percent over asking” (and calling a “real estate rebound“), the…
While the more Spanish styled Mediterranean Villa at 299 Santa Paula Avenue remains on the market asking $4,950,000 (versus $5,900,000 a year ago), the more Tuscan styled Mediterranean villa down…
Kip and Nicole Macy (Pacific Heights The Sequel (Working Title: “Landlords Gone Wild!”)) have skipped town after posting a combined half-million dollar bail bond. They had both spent some time…