225 Bush St. — the Standard Oil Building.

J.K. Dineen
Reporter- San Francisco Business Times

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Downtown San Francisco is for sale. With values reaching, and in some cases surpassing, the peak reached in 2006, property owners are rushing to market with a wide range of building types.

Click the image to see a slideshow of S.F. buildings on the block.

Properties being offered include Hines 
 

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iconic 101 California St., which has never sold before and could reach $1 billion. There are historic buildings like 225 Bush St. and corporate headquarters properties like 50 Beale (Bechtel) and 550 Terry Francois Blvd. (the Gap)

The stream of pending deals will create a welcome cash flow into city coffers.

With two transfer tax increases passed over the past few years, San Francisco now has a 2.5 percent transfer tax for transactions over $5 million. If everything sells that is currently on the block, the city could raise $125 million.

That is a lot of DPW workers, teachers, social workers, police officers and park directors.

J.K. Dineen covers real estate for the San Francisco Business Times.

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Article source: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2012/07/take-a-tour-of-san-francisco-office.html