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Listed for $799,999 in August 2006 ($617 per square foot), the three-level, three-bedroom and agent owned loft number three at 638 Minna ended up selling for $661,500 that November. At $510 per square versus a neighborhood live/work loft median…

The list price for the “charming Victorian single family home” at 1610 Sanchez (“located on a quiet street in Noe Valley near shops, restaurants & transportation”) was reduced from $849,000 to $799,000 yesterday. Once again, the property was purchased…

A few excerpts from the Chronicle’s report: An unlicensed civil engineer and notorious San Francisco permit “expediter” [named Jimmy Jen] faces more than 200 felony charges for allegedly creating bogus documentation for about 100 construction projects in the city, prosecutors…

Never mind the kitchen; we’re focused on the dining and living room wood. And we’re liking what it likely says about the condition of the rest of the house. ∙ Listing: 810 Joost (2/1) 1,512 sqft – $700,000 [Reliance…

From HousingWire’s summary of Morgan Stanley’s latest Housing Markets Insights report: Morgan Stanley analysts are questioning the power of national home price indices, saying that local ‘shift-in-mix’ impacts may overcome the veracity of such large measurement values. In their…

The sale of 2007 9th Avenue closed escrow this past Friday with a reported contact price of $1,089,000, $482 per listed square foot for the remodeled District 4 single-family home. And yes, that’s 1 percent over asking but 8…

As we wrote this past May: 104 Funston was purchased for $2,750,000 in May of 2007 and returned to the market this past March asking $3,150,000. Reduced to a “lucky” $2,988,888 on April 15, the price was further reduced…

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The great little townhouse-condo at 151 Ames Street on a Noe Valley alleyway between Dolores and Guerrero. Yes, that’s the garage with tangerine epoxy floor and window. The rest of the place is a little more subdued but no less sharp-edged. 3/2.5 and reduced to $1.425

Cuteness overload on a great block. 265 Henry Street, a bungalow on the downslope of Corona Heights where Henry Street dead-ends, near Castro & 14th Streets. 3/2.5 for $1,077,777. They’re playing the lucky numbers while they should be getting pictures online.

It’s over-the-top woodwork in a handsome corner house in Cole Valley at 290 Frederick Street. The house lacks a yard but has a big deck, plus high ceilings and beautiful light, and is currently asking 421K less than they paid for it in 2007. 3/3 and now yours for $1.749M. Or less.

And just to recap, these properties we’ve written about previously are also open on Sunday: Russian Hill’s old-school co-op at 2164 Hyde Street, that new-school house at 698 Arkansas with elevator and views in Potrero Hill, plus that big expensive stucco thing at 40 27th Avenue in Sea Cliff, and even the Edwardian with a buildable lot, Twin Peaks/Upper Market (3rd item.)
· 2164 Hyde Street [Curbed SF Archives]
· 698 Arkansas Street[Curbed SF Archives]
· 40 27th Avenue[Curbed SF Archives]
· 290 Frederick Street [Redfin]
· 265 Henry Street [Redfin]
· 151 Ames Street [Redfin]

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We’ve been in this building before, a handsome old co-op on Hyde Street in Russian Hill, diagonally across from the tennis courts at Sterling Park and a block from the tourist madness of the crooked part of Lombard Street. Our second co-op of the day, the old-school form of apartment ownership where buying one can approach the discomfort of joining a private club; there’s an interview and many buildings have a no-financing requirement. So start rooting about in the sofa cushions and get ready to pay cash. You’re buying stock and being granted a proprietary lease, unlike a condominium where you’re actually buying assembled building materials. In this case, building materials assembled to form a two-bedroom/two bath apartment and asking $1.795M plus HOAs of $992.00 per month for the privilege of living there. But if you can pass muster, there are advantages. For starters, there’s that unobstructed view of Coit Tower from the enclosed terrace.

Built in 1913/14 and designed by Scottish architect T. Patterson Ross. He was responsible for a number of buildings along this ridge, which had been completely destroyed in the 1906 fire and soon filled up with similar residential buidlings during the post-quake boom. In this well-renovated traditional apartment, the kitchen’s been opened up to the dining room, and someone had the good sense to install a La Cornue range. The rooms have high ceilings and thick plaster walls, bays and heavy moldings, and except in the kitchen, no recessed lights punctuate the ceiling. Ross was also the architect who, when working on a Shriner’s Temple, was asked to include some Islamic inscriptions for the facade. The members later found out the text over the entrance said

Great is Allah and Great is Ross the Architect

He was later permanently disabled by falling bricks on a job site, but we’re not sure there’s a connection. There’s an open house on Sunday, August 8 from 2-4PM.
· 2164 Hyde Street [Redfin]
· Russian Hill Classic [Curbed SF Archives]
· North Slope history [Russian Hill Neighbors]
· Pedigreed Poodles Welcomed in Pacific Heights Co-op [Curbed SF]