San Francisco
Tech boom carries dot-com echoes in San Francisco
sfexaminer.com 05/06/12 4:00 AM Dan Schreiber, SF Examiner Staff Writer Rarely does a week go by at City Hall these days without the announcement of another local tech company’s expansion — a development that always makes Mayor Ed Lee visibly gleeful. … Continue reading
Techs and the city: From gloom to boom
‘Unparalleled time in San Francisco’ San Francisco Business Times by Patrick Hoge, Reporter Reporting contributed by: Lindsay Riddell, J.K. Dineen, Eric Young, Blanca Torres, Mark Calvey. Date: Friday, April 6, 2012, 3:00am PDT The city has risen to newfound prominence … Continue reading
Moving Trends: Where Today’s Buyers Are Searching
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Is this what a Seller’s Market looks like?
By Andrew Roth Short answer: YES. Although no definitive measure exists, a “Seller’s Market” is achieved when sellers generally have the upper hand in negotiations, in price and terms. This environment is characterized by quick marketing periods, sellers receiving multiple … Continue reading
Yes, yes, Noe Valley, say eager S.F. home buyers
The two-bedroom Noe Valley house had an unorthodox layout and looked like a 1980s Tahoe cabin. Taking those flaws into consideration, Realtor Bernard Katzmann listed it for $1.1 million at the inauspicious sales time of Thanksgiving. Then he watched in … Continue reading
In SF, higher priced homes fared better
The big news on the real estate front this week was the release of the S&P/Case-Shiller index, which tracks home values in 20 major metropolitan cities across the country. Disappointing news is closing out the year as national home prices continued … Continue reading
S.F. parklets: a little tour of a major trend
The most significant change to San Francisco’s landscape in 2011 involves a conjuring act that turns parking spaces into pedestrian nooks. They go by the name of parklets, a word that didn’t exist two years ago, and when 2011 arrived … Continue reading
Digging up history at old Transbay Terminal
When most people ponder the past at the Transbay Terminal construction site, they imagine the hustle and bustle of gray-suited commuters swarming in and out of the Art Deco-style train depot in the mid-20th century. But archaeologists working at the … Continue reading
Ed Lee plans to pass tree costs to property owner
City officials say they don’t have enough money to adequately care for San Francisco’s thousands of street trees and that local property owners will have to pick up the bill. The cost-switching plan is part of Mayor Ed Lee’s $6.8 … Continue reading
Oyster Development takes on Mission district project in San Francisco
San Francisco Business Times Oyster Development Corp. has agreed to buy a site in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission district and will revive a stalled — and contentious — plan to build housing and an entertainment center there. Oyster … Continue reading
