SF News The Tale Of 'The Most Complicated Real Estate Deal' In SF History Big construction projects in San Francisco often take years to get approved and can be held up for any number of reasons. And yet even our jaded eyes were a bit agog at
SF News Tech-Backed Poll Finds SF Residents Blame Tech Industry, City Hall For Lack Of Affordable Housing A recent poll conducted by a pro-development organization has found that residents of San Francisco blame the tech industry for the city's high housing costs. The Chronicle reports that the group, Rise SF,
SF News Report: SF Has Capacity To Add 70,500 Units Under Current Zoning Paying more for housing in California than you can afford? You're not alone. A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute says that state residents pay $50 billion more for housing per year
SF News Deal Announced To Build First New Rent-Controlled Units In Decades For the first time in over 20 years, San Francisco may get new rent-controlled housing. And not new in the sense that the units in question are being built to replace the destruction
SF News Growing Number Of RV-Dwellers In Mountain View Have Homeowners Turning Up Their Noses As residents of San Francisco battle it out over various proposals to address homelessness and a dearth of affordable housing in the city, our neighbors to the south are engaged in a debate
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mission District Residents Oppose 100 Percent Affordable Development Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Counterfeit painkillers containing fentanyl, similar to what officials believe
SF News Sonoma City Council Blocks New Airbnbs Following Housing Concerns Citing familiar-sounding concerns about a diminishing stock of affordable housing, the Sonoma City Council yesterday agreed to place a moratorium on home-sharing services like Airbnb and VRBO in the tourist friendly city. The
Arts & Entertainment New 'Bubble Index' Says SF Is Seventh In The World For Housing Bubbles To say that San Francisco housing is overvalued, inflated to the point that it borders on a bubble, might seem to imply that these prices might go down, the bubble bursting or at
SF News Feds Accept Version Of Anti-Displacement Preference Plan Today is a good day. We WON historic anti-displacement housing preference in SF! #fightingandwinning for our communities who need it most. pic.twitter.com/DCBi3betue— London Breed (@LondonBreed) September 22, 2016 Supervisor London
SF News City Must Increase Airbnb Registration Fees By 400%, And It Doesn't Even Want To The city's hands are tied: The fee charged to short-term rental hosts, currently $50 for two years, is set to quintuple to $250. That's based on San Francisco's short-term rental legislation, crafted with
SF News Bill To Streamline Construction Of In-Law Housing Heads To Governor's Desk Governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign a bill that would make it easier for homeowners to construct secondary housing units on their property. The San Francisco Business Times reports that the measure,
SF News Massive Condo Development Coming To 1001 Van Ness, Former KRON 4 HQ KRON 4 said in 2014 that its parent company would put 1001 Van Ness (at O'Farrell), previously its mothership, on the market, as Socketsite wrote at that time. You know what would be
SF News Neighbors Put Parking Over Housing In Fight Against 6-Story Mission Development The latest housing development to incur the wrath of neighbors is proposed for Cesar Chavez near Guerrero Street. Mission Local reports that the six-story building would replace what is now a one-story office
SF News Report: SF Rents Are Probably Never Going To Drop With the news that rents in San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland all went down last month, many of us briefly allowed a previously forbidden thought to flicker across our minds: Could the
SF News Report: San Jose, Not San Francisco, Has Highest Median Home Price In Country Our neighbor to the south is on its way to becoming just a little more memorable with the news that San Jose now has the highest median home prices of any metro area
SF News Palo Alto Planning Commissioner Publicly Resigns Saying She Can't Afford To Live There Anymore It's a familiar story these days up and down the Peninsula — person gets priced out of the city in which they've lived for years as housing costs skyrocket, and is forced to uproot
SF News Anti-Tech Flyers Condemn Proposed Valencia Street Condos Anti-tech/gentrification posters now flying in front of #Zeitgeist #RealestateSF https://t.co/0vsHp5Rr7a pic.twitter.com/zMm9HKVTSG— SocketSite (@SocketSite) August 2, 2016 Flyers posted outside of Mission bar Zeitgeist remind us that
SF News SF, Oakland, And San Jose Rents All Went Down Last Month Three of the costliest rental markets in the nation — San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose — were all in decline last month according to analysis from Zumper, on whom we have come to rely
SF News New 11-Story Condo Slated For Polk Gulch More housing is on the way, with SocketSite reporting that a 47-unit Polk Gulch development is poised to be approved this week by the Planning Commission. Designed by JS Sullivan Development, the building
SF News 395-Unit Potrero Development Approved After Supervisor's (Joking) Request For Bribe The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve what will be one of the largest housing developments to grace the Portrero Hill neighborhood. The Business Times reports that the 9-to-1 vote in favor
SF News Nouveau Tech Riche Home Buyers Scoring Zero-Down Mortgages In December, San Francisco Federal Credit Union began offering zero-down mortgages on home of up to $2 million to an echelon of tech workers who, while rich in assets like company equity, don't
SF News Supervisors Stutter-Step Toward Development Density Bonuses With Approval Of Limited Measure Just two months ago, with competing proposed housing density bonuses being debated by the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Lee, it appeared as if no progress might get made in the effort to
SF News Super Thin, Nine-Story Hotel Proposed For Harrison Street Plans for a nine-story, skinny hotel are making their way through the planning department. SocketSite reports that the building, designed by architect Charles F. Bloszies, includes commercial space fronting Harrison Street along with
SF News Like Airbnb Before It, City Is Coming After Short-Term Rental Site HomeAway The city of San Francisco will be going to court to make sure that homeowners renting units on HomeAway, a short-term rental listing company that also owns Airbnb competitor VRBO, are paying their
SF News Five-Story, 50-Unit Residential Building Proposed For Valencia Near 14th Getting anything built in the Mission District is very challenging! For evidence of that, here's a fun example from last year, or the story of some more recent but long-delayed movement on the
