Record Setting Bernal Sale Didn’t Include A Parking Spot
Newly constructed upon a previously vacant Bernal Heights parcel, the contemporary four-level home at 152 Elise Street features an open floor plan on the main level, two bedrooms on the level above,...
View ArticleRosewood Napa Valley?
The Hong Kong-based family which owns the Rosewood Sand Hill hotel, a favorite haunt of Silicon Valley venture capitalists and the cougars that hunt them, has been identified as the buyers of the...
View ArticleInner Mission Development Racing To Beat Building Moratorium
A permit to raze the shuttered Western Plywood warehouse at Harrison and 22nd Streets in the Mission has been requested, and in its place, a four-story residential building is planned to rise, with the...
View ArticleUber Campus Kerfuffle And Rendering Scoop
The design of Uber’s worldwide headquarters to rise in San Francisco’s Mission Bay is off to a rocky start. According to a plugged-in insider who delivered the rendering and behind the scenes scoop, a...
View ArticleRevised Designs And Timing For 18-Story Berkeley High-Rise
The revised plans for a less-bulky, 18-story building that’s proposed to rise in Downtown Berkeley were presented to the community last night. As proposed, the 2129 Shattuck development, which would...
View ArticleLegislation To Halt Development Of “Monster Homes” Passed
Supervisor Wiener’s proposed legislation to halt the development, or expansion, of homes exceeding 3,000 gross square feet in size within San Francisco’s Corona Heights neighborhood was passed by San...
View ArticleUber Abruptly Changes Direction For Mission Bay HQ
As we first reported a few weeks ago, the design of Uber’s worldwide headquarters to rise in San Francisco’s Mission Bay is off to a bit of a rocky start, with a conflict between Uber’s team and a...
View ArticleShould Roommates Benefit From A Master Tenant’s Buyout?
Mid five-figure offers for tenants to vacate rent-controlled apartments are not uncommon in San Francisco. And even six-figure offers have been made (and accepted). A couple of questions from a reader...
View ArticleCorpse Found Inside Hoarder’s Home (UPDATED)
A hazardous materials team is busy trying to empty the trash-filled home at 152 4th Avenue. And while the detective on the scene couldn’t comment as an investigation is underway, according to a...
View ArticleMarina Residents Riled Up Over Chestnut Street Plans
Plans to redesign Chestnut Street, which could include the addition of a transit only lane, traffic signals, and other traffic calming measures, along with the loss of parking, have Marina residents...
View ArticleAttention To Detail, Take Two
According to the listing for the “modern Smart Home” at 577 Alvarado, the Noe Valley home was “built with great attention to detail.” But as we noted when the property hit the market last month,...
View Article$200K Trimmed From Sequoia House, Giant Mystery Solved
Listed for $2.595 million last month, the asking price for the ironically dubbed “Sequoia House” at 3066 Market Street has been trimmed by $200K. And with respect to how the landmark Giant Sequoia,...
View ArticleMission District McDonald’s Suddenly Shuttered
The McDonald’s at 16th and Mission was suddenly shuttered last night with employees being told that the restaurant’s lease for the 2011 Mission Street store had expired and that everyone would be...
View ArticleHoarder’s Home In Which Corpse Was Found Listed For $928K
The Lake District Victorian within which the mummified corpse of the homeowner was found is now on the market for $928,000 as a “major-fixer” with “Vintage Charm/Details” and touting “a real News...
View ArticleHouse With Landmark Giant Sequoia Sells For $2.325M
Purchased as a half-finished project for $951,000 in cash on the courthouse steps in 2014, Maven Investments was planning to chop down the 75-foot-tall redwood tree behind the Corona Heights home at...
View ArticleOpen House Cue Cards For The Unwitting?
From the listing: “The views to the ocean and Marin Headlands are breath-taking.” And while we don’t know if the card below was placed in anticipation of a foggy day, or in case the buyer couldn’t find...
View ArticleLocal Rock God Tied To Marin Mega-Property
A little over a decade ago, Stanley Saitowitz was engaged to design a futuristic mega-home to be built atop the hundred-plus-acre King Mountain site in Marin, a site which has now hit the market listed...
View ArticleA Giant Elk And Entrepreneur Exit Noe Valley For Cow Hollow
As we first reported when the converted Noe Valley Firehouse at 3816 22nd Street sold for $5.55 million in 2014, the buyer was technically the “Megaloceros, LLC,” behind which a tech entrepreneur was...
View ArticleIn For A Penny…
The single-family Sunnyside home at 698 Joost Avenue was purchased for $705,000 without a garage or off-street parking space in January of last year. Last month, the buyer of the home met with San...
View ArticleIllicit Parking Pad Project: Phase Two
Having been informed that securing approvals and a valid permit to legally add an off-street parking pad to his home could be challenging and time consuming, a Sunnyside homeowner engaged a landscaper...
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