Kevin+Jonathan’s Blog Posts re SF Real Estate

Where Homes Are Going Fastest This Spring — The Bay Area | from Trulia Trends

The Market is Fastest in the Bay Area, Quickening in New York, and Slowing in SoCal The share of homes for sale…

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The Most Comprehensive History of Why SF Real Estate is so Pricey: How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) | TechCrunch

Today, the tech industry is apparently on track to destroy one of the world’s most valuable cultural treasures, San Francisco, by pushing…

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April 17, 2014 San Francisco Real Estate

8 Octavia: A Sneak Peak with Stanley Saitowitz — Its Architect

Special Sneak Preview: 8 Octavia with its Architect Stanley Saitowitz This past week I got a special hardhat tour of 8 Octavia…

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Really? S.F.’s hottest area for Millennials: Cow Hollow – SFGate

If you’re between the ages of 25 and 34 in San Francisco, Cow Hollow is where you should live. That’s according to a…

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Home Restaurant Site In Castro Could Maybe Become 7-Story Condo: SFist

Many denizens of the Castro and Lower Haight have bemoaned the now blighted, three-years-vacant former Home restaurant property, which lost the chance…

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Most of San Francisco’s office construction pipeline already taken – San Francisco Business Times

Developers plan to add 5.5 million square feet of new Class A office to San Francisco’s hot market in the next four…

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$40,000+ for Ellis Act Evictions!? S.F. supervisors OK bigger Ellis Act payouts – SFGate

The legislation by Supervisor David Campos would require property owners who evict renters under the state Ellis Act to pay the difference…

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Fifteen Fifteen by JS Sullivan Development: San Francisco | BuzzBuzzHome

Coming Soon! Fifteen Fifteen is a new condo project by JS Sullivan Development currently under construction at 1501 15th Street in San…

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And We’re Back: S.F. condo market passes precrash peak – SFGate

Earlier this month, there was an invite-only reception at Vida, a condominium project being built next to the New Mission Theater…. Two days…

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Legalizing Your San Francisco In-Laws — The Units, Not the People…

What about those illegal units in San Francisco? Well, what about them? When it comes to real estate in San Francisco these units pose opportunities and challenges. Let Kevin Ho and Jonathan McNarry of Vanguard Properties help decipher them for you today.

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More Answers from a Structural Engineer | Mission Loc@l

Rodrigo Santos, from Santos & Urrita Structural Engineers, had many great things to say during our last interview. Like any good discussion,…

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Two New San Francisco Condo Developments: The Onyx SF in Potrero Hill and VidaSF in the Mission

Here are some early advances from market intelligence from yours truly, Kevin Ho at Vanguard Properties. OPENING SOON WITH VANGUARD:  Nearly 20 new historic…

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