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PriceChopper: Yet Another Prime Piece of Nob Hill Real Estate

One Other Thing the Castro Will Get with its New Whole Foods

Fougeron’s “Tehama Grasshopper” (431 Tehama #2) Hits The Market
On San Francisco’s AIA Home Tour in 2007. On the cover and inside Metropolitan Home in 2008. And now on the market and asking $4,128,000 in 2009, it's the Fougeron Architecture designed "Tehama Grasshopper" otherwise know as 431 Tehama...

393 Carl: One Of Four New Construction Condos After And Before
One of four new construction condos completed in March and asking $1,395,000 at the time, the listing for 393 Carl was withdrawn from the MLS in May. Back on the market in August with a new broker and now...

Upper Market Whole Foods: Even More Renderings (Again)

San Francisco Listed Sales Volume In July: Down 13% YOY
While sales volume for listed single-family homes in San Francisco gained 2% on a year-over-year basis in July, condo sales volume fell 28.5% (228 transactions in July 2008 versus 163 in 2009), up 16% from June versus a 27% increase...

Designer East Bay Apples To Apples For 737 Second Street #405
If you didn’t see it a year ago its website is still live and it’s worth a look. And if you did and wondered what happened a plugged-in reader reports: This property is now an apple…changed hands in just...

Mission Pie Cleaning Up Nice

Condo group insists on insurance
Q: We own a condo and are in the process of changing property management. The new property management sent us a form to fill out for our condo insurance, policy number, insurance company, policy period, etc. Is it right to give out my policy insurance...

Future of Geary Median is a Question Mark

Only in the Bay Area? The vegetarian real-estate broker
You couldn't make this stuff up. A Bay Area real-estate agent is marketing himself as a "vegetarian broker" . This being his unique selling proposition, presumably he hopes to reel in like-minded veggie lovers as clients.

Note to tenants: Your landlord may be reading your tweets
A renter in Chicago found out the hard way that what you say on Twitter can be used against you in a court of law. Amanda Bonnen tweeted about her "moldy apartment" on May 12: reportedly wrote on Twitter "Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay."...

Everybody has to pay for the common area
Q: I am the president of the board of our homeowners association, which has 11 houses. There is a conflict that seems unsolvable. There is a large common area behind seven of the houses that is approximately 300 feet long and 60 feet wide that has beautifully..

Japantown May Get Some Nice Things

Temporary Transbay Bus Terminal: First Prefab Buildings Placed
The site was cleared in January and now the first of the prefab buildings that will compose the Temporary Transbay Terminal at 200 Folsom have been placed on site. A reminder of how it should look by the end...

Calling All Contractors That Still Have Cash…
From the listing for 324 Day over in Noe Valley: Contractor special! Construction stopped during renovation and was foreclosed. Seller/lender anxious to sell, very motivated. Bring your best offer, don't worry about the listing price. Seller/lender will finance with...

Modern Steel Glass Penthouse in the Works

From Renovation To Potentially Razed For 680/690 Folsom
According to J.K. Dineen, TMG Partners' renovation and redesign of 680/690 Folsom might never see the light of day through those proposed glass curtain walls. Instead, the buildings could be razed to make way for a Moscone Center expansion....

Lease. Own. Evolve. (Which Shouldn’t Have Come As Any Surprise)
The Millennium’s new "Lease. Own. Evolve." campaign shouldn’t have caught any plugged-in people by surprise. It’s the rental program we broke the news about in May. As we wrote at the time: Less than 10% of the building is expected...

Home Prices Falling, Yay!: It’s harder than ever to sell…

Mortgage rates up, refinancing activity slows
Rates for 30-year home loans jumped to the highest level in seven months last week, leading to a slowdown in refinancing activity, Freddie Mac said Thursday. The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage was 5.59 percent last week, up from 5.29 percent the...

JustQuotes: It’s A Good Time To Be A New Tenant In San Francisco
"Tenant-starved San Francisco office landlords are laying on the concessions. A new report from the tenant brokerage Studley shows property owners are now shelling out an average of $45 per square foot in concessions to tenants willing to ink a...

Makeover Still Promised for Waterfront; Crowds Someday?

San Francisco Real Estate Districts: Maps And Neighborhoods
A reader’s question reminds us that we might be taking it for granted that everyone knows their Districts. A map for those who are more visual with a neighborhood breakdown below:...

San Francisco Listed Sales Volume In May: Down 37% YOY
Sales volume for listed single-family homes and condos in San Francisco fell 37% on a year-over-year basis in May according to San Francisco Schtuff, with listed single-family home sales down 27% (235 transactions in 2008 versus 172 in 2009) and...