SF News Cyberattack on Popular Property Listing Software Throws Bay Area Real Estate Market into Chaos Hackers breached a crucial real estate listing software from the Rapattoni Corporation earlier this month, and Bay Area realtors are feeling it — but there's no foreseeable fix yet.
housing market Average Home in Bay Area Actually Selling for Less than Asking Price, Data Shows For the first time in a decade, the Bay Area’s tight housing market might be loosening up a little, but it's still not exactly affordable.
SF News Report: Denver, Not San Francisco, Is 'Hottest Housing Market' Of 2016 Real estate listing site Redfin says in a new report that despite what you've heard, San Francisco's for-sale housing market is not the hottest in the country — not by a long shot. Instead,
SF News Look Inside The Smallest House On The Market In SF While it's no $1.2 million shack, the above pictured 363-square-foot house is currently the smallest home on the market in San Francisco. Expected to go for over its $495,000 listing price,
SF News Tiny Decrease In SF House Flipping Gives Faint Hope For Cooling Market In what some are hoping is a sign that the San Francisco housing marketing is cooling a bit, the percentage of homes flipped in 2015 represented a decrease over the previous year. Flipping
SF News Planning Commission Approves New Interim Restrictions On Mission District Developments The San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously approved new interim controls on Mission District developments on Thursday. That means, for the next 15 months, any project over 25 units or 25,000 square feet
SF News Two Sunset Families May Lose Their Apartments Due To Shady Landlord Tactic Two separate groups of Sunset renters are at risk of losing their apartments after what appear to be some shady moves by the building's new owner. One of the renters has filed an
SF News Another Housing Argument: Greater Density Does Not Mean Cheaper Units A new study published by the Center for Demographics and Policy titled "Building Cities for People" presents a new wrinkle in the age-old argument about supply and demand when it comes to dealing
SF News Jane Kim Proposes Doubling Affordable Housing Requirement To 25 Percent Supervisor Jane Kim today introduced a charter amendment with the goal of asking San Franciscans to rethink affordable housing requirements for market-rate developments in several ways. The most significant of which would be
SF News SF's Least Expensive Home Sales In 2015 Were All Decrepit Shacks You only need to have clicked on Curbed once or twice this year to have seen that even basic forms of shelter cost a million dollars in 2015 San Francisco, and that unless
SF News Real Estate Experts Say SF Housing Market Is Maybe Reaching Bubble Conditions It's not just unicorns that might be overvalued, ladies and gents. Now, more and more housing experts are coming out and affirming what some have been warning all along: we're in a bubble.
SF News At High End, SF's Housing Market Finally Cooling Off While doomsayers have believed there was no end in sight to the white-hot home sale market in San Francisco, at least at the luxury end of the spectrum, the market appears to finally
SF News Landlords Now Forced To Publicly Disclose Tenant Buyouts, And We Have Numbers Following a city law introduced by Supervisor David Campos and adopted last year by the Board of Supervisors, landlords are for the first time reporting tenant buyout agreements to the Rent Board. That's
SF News Score This Electromagnetic Field-Blocking Paranoia Chamber For Just $8.6 Million Unit 4 at 2170 Jackson Street is a safe space for the concerned and electromagnetically sensitive among us. Though it was sold back in 2007, it was still, as Curbed puts it, a
SF News Report: Which Neighborhood Home Values Appreciated The Most? A suspicion-confirming report from Paragon Real Estate Group points to three neighborhoods that have seen the greatest bump in home values since the financial crisis: Bayview, the Inner Mission, and Bernal Heights (in
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian: You know we love Tim Redmond, but we had kind of a hard time following his non-market-based argument about the SF housing market. Can't we get the Freakonomics
SF News Guvernator's May Budget Revision The Governor's annual May budget revision was rolled out yesterday. The document still shows a net operating deficit of $1.4 billion, but represents this as "major progress as compared to the $4.
SF News Craigslist Encounters: Things We Expect In The News Arrrgggghhh. Sometimes that is the one reasonable response to what people write about Craigslist. Of course we realize that due to network effects Craigslist will reach a critical mass in a city and
SF News Are All The Would-Be Buyers Fleeing The State? We were feeling pretty good about the state of the California housing market after reading the PDF of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's most recent report. Housing prices up 18.8%
misc Housing Bubbles: Pop Goes The Market and the Market Goes Pop It's time for our monthly housing market speculation fest, as the real estate housing numbers come in for September. Like 'NSYNC sez, it's dirty pop! (Out of charity for you, we won't do
misc Housing Bubbles: The Market Is Falling! Panic in the streets of San Francisco! Further adding to housing hysteria, the Chron prominently fronts an article reporting that the housing market is going to crash some time next year. Set your
SF News Au Revoir, Twiggy The neighbor, who refuses to be identified but we’re guessing also hates small puppies, complained to Peters' Condo Board that Twiggy was "causing throngs of people to gather outside and strange men
misc Political Junkie/Housing Bubbles: The Daly Show The Land Use Committee of the Board of Supervisors met yesterday, to discuss whether the city should put caps on the number of owner-occupied two-unit buildings that can be converted from tenancies in
