Care To Venture Upon 207 Maple’s New New Return?
There’s no real story of which we know for 207 Maple other than perhaps the seller’s last name of Perkins. Purchased for $1,575,000 in November 1997 the Presidio Heights house…
Privately Insured Cures Outpace Defaults For First Time Since 2006
According to Mortgage Insurance Companies of America (MICA), this past February privately insured delinquent homeowner cures (80,758) outpaced new defaults (68,675) in the U.S. for the first time since March…
150 Otis: Details for Redevelopment Into “Veterans Commons”
Additional details on the proposed Swords to Plowshares and Chinatown Community Development Center’s conversion of 150 Otis Street from a temporary homeless shelter and City storage into “permanent affordable rental…
One Hawthorne: The SocketSite Straight Scoop (And Sales Update)
While One Hawthorne‘s website has been live since last October (to which floor plans for the first seven floors have since been added), and the onsite sales office has been…
And If Rates Jumped Two Points? They’d Still Be Historically Cheap.
“Fixed mortgage rates likely will rise less than a quarter of a percentage point in the next three months, the smallest increase for the second quarter since a drop in…
January Case-Shiller Index: Bottom Tier Up, Middle And Top Tiers Fall
According to the January 2010 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA fell 0.6% from December ’09 to January ’10, up 9.0% year-over-year for the…
Big Money Returns To Broadway (With Roots Beyond Real Estate)
As a plugged-in reader notes, the sale of 2342 Broadway closed escrow this past Friday with a reported contract price of $13,500,000 (asking $14,000,000). The sale of the fully remodeled…
SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory: 3/29/10
Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco rose 6% over the past two weeks versus an average of 4% for the same two weeks over…
860 De Haro: An Orwellian Reference In More Ways Than One
Built in 1984 and last sold for $1,700,000 in March 2007, 860 De Haro has been extensively remodeled since. A new kitchen now opens to the dining room (for which…
Debating The Details Of The Presidio’s Preservation
“This is a far cry from the struggle that ended eight months ago, when the Fisher family abandoned its proposal to erect a contemporary art museum near the spot where…