Remodeling, Addition & Replacement Costs & Percentage Recouped Upon Sale
The 22nd annual, Remodeling- Cost vs. Value report has been released for 2009/2010. The report consist of the relationship between remodeling costs and resale value by comparing national and regional averages for 33 popular remodeling projects.
This is what Hanley Wood, LLC had to say about the San Francisco averages.
While it’s not listed on the MLS, a plugged-in tipster notes San Francisco’s iconic Hotel Utah (500 4th Street) is on the market and asking $2,350,000 for its 28 “Tourist Rooms” and Hotel Utah Saloon. When the Hotel Utah…
Unfortunately the sale of 908 Ashbury won’t be apples to apples as building permits note a remodeled master bath, a new guest bath, new skylights, and the moving of walls since its last sale. Also noted in the permits:…
Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco climbed 11% over the past two weeks versus an average of 5% for the same two weeks over the past four years. Current inventory levels are down…
“When the foreclosure crisis started, Congress passed the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 so foreclosed homeowners would not be liable for their canceled debt. It is in force through 2012. California had a similar law, but it expired…
As a couple of plugged-in tipsters note, the surface area parking lot at the corner of Page and Franklin (1 Franklin) is being eyed for a new eight-story mixed-use development of 35 residential units over 2,378 square feet of…
The kitchen has been rearranged a bit and a new red stove (a Bertazzoni we believe) installed since its purchase for $1,630,000 in September of 2006 (new above, old below). Other than that it’s looking to be a rather…
Recently rezone from Light Industrial to Urban Mixed-Use as part of the Eastern Neighborhoods Area Plan, the proposed 1717 17th Street project would demolish three existing buildings between De Haro and Carolina representing 12,000 square feet of Production, Distribution…
It’s still years early in the game before the real battle hits the field, but the SF Examiner took a closer look yesterday at the Redwood City megadevelopment that would turn Cargill’s old salt harvesting site into somewhere between 8,000 and 12,000 homes. Under the banner of the “50/50 Balanced Plan,” Arizona-based DMB Associates is planning to develop half of the salt-harvesting site, while restoring the other half to open space use and tidal marshes. This is all happening on a $200 million site that Cargill held onto after selling most of its other salt land to government agencies that plan to restore shoreline habitats.
A little over a week ago, former San Francisco mayor Art Agnos showed no shyness in declaring the Saltworks project pretty much the best thing ever. In the spirit of claiming the fashionable eco high ground, the project does aim for a “transit-oriented” community, perhaps linking homes with downtown with a trolley. Before this is all over, the project has to be approved by a ton of agencies — one of which has jurisdiction over approval of bay-fill projects. A taste of battles to come: no one even agrees on whether Saltworks will be a bay-fill project, since it’ll happen in salt ponds, and therefore may not be considered as filling in the bay. This should be fun.
· Land war heating up over Cargill salt ponds [SF Examiner]
· Redwood City Saltworks [Website]
[”digger,” via Curbed SF Flickr photog brad terrell]
· Guggenheim reimaginings get auctioned off [Metropolis POV]
· Laying some ground rules for food carts [SF Examiner]
· Urban gardens aren’t making up for dwindling Bay Area farmland [WSJ]
· Speaking of those: here’s another at McAllister and Larkin [LITL]
· Constructoporn: Mojo Bicycle Cafe parklet [BIKE NOPA]
· Fun with CGI: tilt-shift flyover of mini-SF [Spots Unknown]