It's hard to imagine who else would buy this alley, especially for the price that we did. But we're able to do a cool project, and she's able to get out of this mess. Like many of Walz's projects, the alley's transformation will start online, where people will compete to be part of the design process.
The SF market became crazy hot this fall selling season, accelerating from 25 mph to 100 mph almost overnight - because of the AI startup boom that is exploding here... It is certainly one of the hottest markets in the country, and the luxury market is leading the way. October saw the highest number of $5m+ sales since the peak of the pandemic boom. November saw the highest month-of-November number of sales ever.
An historic 1899 10-bedroom, 6.5 bath mansion on San Francisco's famed Billionaires' Row was sold at nearly half its original asking price. The house, which was featured twice in SF's Decorators Showcase, sold for $17.75 million after being put on the market for $32 million in 2023, even though SF is apparently having a mansion shortage or something. [SFGate, Real Deal]
It's not the first time that the oxidized copper-trimmed Sentinel Building has been used as collateral by Francis Ford Coppola, and it's not the first time that Coppola has had to weather the fallout from a film that tanked at the box office. But the late-in-life would-be epic , which Coppola had been working on for 40 years, was more expensive than his other disappointments, and he already sold his two Sonoma County winery properties in order to fund its $120 million cost.
In October, home prices rose moderately from the month before, with a median listing price of $1,195,000. The number of listings on the market shrank 8.2% from last month, which is a bigger decrease than normal for this time of the year in San Francisco, and homes are also selling slower than at the same time last year.
The house is perched on Edgehill Mountain, its 10,121 square feet comprising an artistic marriage of both curvilinear and sharp angles. Inside the unique facade are eight bedrooms and five bathrooms in a loft-like interior framed by a 20-foot ceiling. The home has five levels, all served by an elevator. Honey-toned wood, parquet floors, burnished brick and cement glow in the light pouring through tall windows inset across the entire back wall of the home.
Results showed MLS-listed properties consistently outperforming off-market sales across all price ranges. Between 2022 and 2024, the average sale price gap grew from $211,000 to $394,000 with median differences ranging from $160,000 to $315,000. We built this study on solid, repeatable foundations stripping out noise, normalizing the data, and letting the results speak for themselves, said Jay Pepper-Martens, chief technology officer at SFAR. In the spirit of finding the truth, we were committed to telling the full story no matter what.
It's a sign of the times for Academy of Art University, the San Francisco-based art college that once attracted students from all over the country and now has many of its students taking classes remotely. Academy of Art may only be familiar to you because of their signage and advertising around town, or maybe you saw their ads in heavy rotation on TV at some point in your childhood.
In the case of 171 Buena Vista Ave. East, the story is one of television fame, as this two-unit building was once the setting of a popular American sitcom, in part because of the incredible bay views afforded by its many windows. Today, this property is for sale, asking $3.5 million. The building is actually multi-family, consisting of two units. We only see the empty unit in the listing photos.
Originally, 1776 Green St. was an auto works garage, built in Classic Revival style by owner and builder Sven J. Sterner, with help from a carpenter named Charles M. Olson. A historic resource evaluation completed on the property by the San Francisco Planning Department revealed details of the building and its creators, pointing out though neither Sterner nor Olson was an architect, their design for 1776 Green St. has endured "with a high degree of its integrity."
