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AAHOA promotes finding 'common ground'
As many of you already know, the Asian American Hotel Owners Assn. held its Annual Convention & Trade Show March 26-29 in San Antonio. Keynote speakers Jimmy Johnson, representatives from Afterburner and columnists from USA Today's "Common Ground" rounded out a very busy schedule of 15 professional development breakout sessions, 450 vendor exhibitors, and speeches by luminaries like Elaine Chao, U.S. secretary of ...

Be prepared for negotiations with group sales
In past years, we have seen many cases when hotel sales staffers have sold to groups and no negotiations had taken place at all. Quite often, in cases of small groups seeking conference space, sleeping rooms and meals, whatever a property sales person offered was accepted, and a contract was signed without any negotiations taking place. This also has happened when corporate travel managers accept an annual contract for a ...

Weekend getaways appeal to full-timers
The pressures of contemporary life are palpable to most adults who are employed full time and, in particular, those in the workforce who happen to reside in a household in which both the husband and wife are employed full time (approximately 60 percent of all "spousal" households). The resulting sense of "time poverty" has precipitated a gradual decline in vacation length and a corresponding surge in leisure trips ...

CurbedWire Late Edition: Lennar Corp. Agreement Allows for More Affordable Housing

HUNTERS POINT—Paging Chris Daly: Developer Lennar Corp. is playing for keeps on the affordable housing front. From the press release issued by the SF Labor Council:

The San Francisco Labor Council, along with its community and ...

UPDATE: There Was, In Fact, A Fire at AT&T Park Last Night

A tipster dropped the word earlier today that there was a fire at AT&T park last night— one that mysteriously failed to emerge in this morning's news reports. From the comment box, we have the ...

The SocketSite Scoop On 2820 Scott: 2008 Decorator Showcase House
What many people already know about 2820 Scott Street (the 2008 Decorator Showcase house): it was a boarding house prior to being purchased by the Paige family (think Paige Glass) in December of 2005 for “much less” than its...

Curbed National: Crack Rocks, Blob Walls, Small Spaces

Let us now take a very visual look at the latest architecture and design news as revealed on our sister sites, Curbed LA and Curbed NY, this week.

1) LA: Listen, Tighe Architects:

Trulia's Listing of the Week

Record temps are on tap for this weekend, and this listing couldn’t have hit the radar at a better time. This stunning two-level New York style penthouse loft comes with a walk-in wine cooler, central air conditioning and heat and a 400 square foot outdoor deck with beautiful water views. ...

Housing woes lure back bold buyers

More Good News...

New York - The depressed housing market is now attracting buyers who look at boarded-up homes, rising foreclosures, and falling values and see, not disaster, but a rich opportunity.

They have cash so they don't need to go to ...

Housing Starts Post Surprise Rise

Good News

WASHINGTON -- Home construction turned up unexpectedly in April and showed surprising vigor, making the biggest increase in two years. However, the increase was driven by a surge in multi-family housing, while single-family starts dropped.

Housing starts increased 8.2% to a seasonally adjusted 1.032 million annual rate, ...

The Giant Pool of Money - The Hands-Down Best Explanation of the Credit Crisis
I've read more articles and descriptions of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Mess and current 'credit crisis' than I care to admit.

It wasn't that I was looking for answers myself, per se. And I always felt I had a fairly good handle on what went down from having witnessed it, more or less, from my front row seats.

Really, I kept looking because I was searching for someone, intelligent - neutral and capable of telling the story in ...

To Rent Control or Not to Rent Control - That is the Question - Prop 98 Heats Up

From today's SFGate,

Individual Tax Bills for Tenancies in Common One Step Closer
As we first reported back in September of last year (courtesy of the 'head's up' from Gordon over at Plan C), it looks as though Phil Ting from the San Francisco Real Estate Assessor office is looking to make good on his offer to help clarify the oft confusing, record keeping nightmare facing many Tenancy in Common owners come tax time.

As it stands, there is one stunning tax bill sent out to all ...

A Tale of Two Cities - A breakdown of Active Listings in San Francisco
Tuesday Tour and Tax Day prompted me to run a few numbers on the Active Listings in San Francisco. The total number of active real estate listings, not pending or contingent, and excluding any of the numerous new development listings that are not currently in the multiple listing service, totals 1545.

What caught my attention was the fact that close to half of all listings in San Francisco (42% to be exact) are in