SF News Long-Vacant Mid-Market Condo Building Gets City Hall OK To Switch to Apartments Instead Mohammed Nuru bribery complications left a 12-story, 109-unit residential building empty for nearly three years, but that building known as The Oak just got the OK to convert from condos to apartments under a new owner who does not have any bribery charges.
SF News Long-Vacant, Frequently Tagged Mid-Market Condo May Finally Become Occupied as Apartments It is a very San Francisco problem to have a 12-story, 109-unit residential building just completely vacant for nearly three years because its owner got popped in the Mohammed Nuru scandal. But there may be new life for the empty building known as The Oak.
SF News New Startup Turns Renting Apartments Into eBay-Like Bidding War A new startup hoping to capitalize on the feeding frenzy that is trying to rent an apartment in San Francisco launches tomorrow, and may succeed in driving Bay Area rents up even higher
SF News Yes, There Is A 3-Bedroom In San Francisco Listing for $30k A Month San Francisco's crazy rental market got you down? Need a little lift? A little pep? Something light-heartened to raise your spirits? Well, you've come to the wrong place. With that being said, we
SF News John King On New Luxury Downtown Apartments: 'This Isn’t The San Francisco That Most Of Us Know' Architecture and urban design critic John King has penned his official thoughts on The Jasper, that 40-story tower on Rincon Hill that's just opening up for renters, and he sounds sort of disturbed.
SF News Studios In Huge New Complex Between Oak And Fell Will Start At $3,135 Not surprisingly, the enormous, five-story, 182-unit apartment complex that's under construction on the block that was formerly taken up by the Central Freeway on- and off-ramps, between Oak and Fell and Octavia and
SF News San Francisco Hits Million-Dollar Median Home Price, Just In Time For 'Million Dollar Listing' TV Show To Arrive In your either horrifying or glorious (depending on who you are) residential real estate news for the day, here's what you need to know: the median price for a home in San Francisco
SF News Is This (Currently) The Worst 'Roommate Wanted' Ad In San Francisco? No one wants to feel like they've been taken in by a hoax. But a Craigslist "roommate wanted" listing makes me hope I've fallen for a whopper, because the alternative—that someone posted
SF News Map: Number Of Minimum Wage Jobs Required To Rent In S.F. The S.F. Department of Public Health released a map that shows just how many full-time minimum wage jobs you'd need to rent a 2BR in San Francisco at fair market rates (FMR)
SF News Oy, Evictions In S.F. Hit 12-Year High The number of evictions across the city have officially returned to dot-com boom levels not seen since 2001 according to new numbers released by the San Francisco Rent Board. During the period of
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Fourth Roommate For Hoarder Household Have you, dear San Francisco apartment dweller, ever been evicted because your roommate or landlord wasn't accepting of your downwardly spiraling and constantly accumulating lifestyle? Then you're in luck! (Among a pile of
SF News All Together Now: The S.F. Rental Market Is Insane It's time for your semi-monthly reminder that the apartment rental market has become completely, demoralizingly, grotesquely expensive and competitive. KQED just published this piece by Sam Harnett who relays a first-person tale of
Arts & Entertainment Look Back At 1970s-Era Northpoint With Apartment Life Magazine Jen Carlson of Gothamist recently came across a slew of old Apartment Life magazines online—the publication later turned into Metropolitan Home, part of Hachette Filipacchi Media, but folded in 2010. In one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shut Up, Little Man! Tenderloin Dweller Attacks Roommate With Boiling Oil A spat over a kitchen light turned into a harrowing boiling-oil attack Tuesday morning between two San Francisco roommates living in the Tenderloin. "The victim told police he was in the kitchen reading
SF News Snoozeflash: Many Rentals Are Being Handled By Brokers These Days You've likely noticed that more rentals are being handled by brokers these days, as this is not a new trend. As the NYT reports today, often late to the game as they are,
