SF News Once Again, Data Shows Pandemic Exodus Has Swung the Other Way and Everyone's Moving Back to SF Postal service data shows net migration out of the city is back to pre-pandemic levels, but a lot of people are still moving around.
SF News This San Francisco Driveway Can Be Yours For The Low, Low Price Of $50k For those desperately trying to stay afloat in the never-ending struggle that is the San Francisco rental market, buying a spot to call your own sounds like the ultimate dream. We're right there
SF News After Bids Mount, San Francisco's Mummified Corpse House Sells For $1.56 Million Over two months after the tentative acceptance of a $1,029,500 bid for one of San Francisco's most infamous homes, the offers kept on coming... to the point where the gross and
SF News Are We Seriously At The Point Where People Are Selling Teeny Slices Of SF For $200K? There's something called "Betteridge's law of headlines" which reads "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." And while nine times out of ten Betteridge is
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Sunday: Tour The Million Dollar Mummified Hoarder House Because you are here, you know all about the Richmond District Mummy House, I assume. The hoard-filled home that contained the corpse of its former owner was cleared out in April, went up
SF News Will Somebody Please Buy This Entire City Block For $10 Million And Do Something With It Already? While San Franciscans fight desperately for more housing in some neighborhoods, an entire Portola District city block zoned for development has languished for roughly two years on the market. Socketsite reports that there's
SF News One Rincon Hill North Tower Expected To Sell For $400 Million Then Convert To Condos One Rincon Hill's north tower isn't just an apartment building. It's a record-setting apartment building lifestyle. Its height? Nearly incomparable in the Bay Area. Its beauty? Unparalleled. Its glory? Unfathomable. To put a
SF News Lucky (?) Buyer Snags Mummified Corpse House For $1,029,500 Remind me, which one of you had $1,029,500 in the how-much-will-the-Richmond-District-hoarder-house-go-for pool? Because you won, congratulations! Congratulations also go to the "lucky" (?!? sure, why not) buyer-to-be, whose $1,029,500 bid
SF News Breaking: Many Tech Workers Are Being Priced Out Of Bay Area A KPIX headline that's getting splashed around social media since last night proclaims "Even Techies Can't Afford the Bay Area Anymore," but there's a bit more to it than that. As Redfin CEO
SF News 18th Street Duplex Sells For 114 Percent Over Asking We already know that everything from teensy condos to hoarder hellholes are selling for well over their asking prices in this sizzling real estate market we're in. But watch what happens when a
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Fully Furnished Beauty In Chinatown, $2100 Today's Apartment Sadness listing suggests that the market might be getting a little worse for landlords/subletters looking to gouge the desperate and homeless. It's a six-month sublet in Chinatown that has appeared
SF News Study: Airbnb 'Commercial Hosts' Definitely Keeping Long-Term Rental Units Off the Market A lot gets said about Airbnb in relation to average moms and pops and everygal/guys who are renting rooms to tourists for a little extra cash, or renting their apartments while they're
SF News Rube Goldberg House Gets Landmark Status, Potentially Foiling Eviction We learned back in November of the case of four tenants occupying two rent-controlled units on the second floor of 198 Gough, which is also home to 20th Century Cafe and was, historically,
SF News Study: NY And SF Rents Are Dragging Down The US Economy A new study by two economists out of UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago suggests that overall national growth, as in the gross domestic product, is being strangled by the insanely high
SF News One Buyer Bought Both Of Those Pricey South Park Condos For $8 Million Get ready to be sad again about how not-rich you are: A couple recently closed on those two extremely nice, newly built condos on South Park which were listed separately for $3 million
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Toolshed To Call Your Own For $800/Month This week's edition of Apartment Sadness came in via the tipline from some apartment listings in the Stanford University classifieds. Thus, we don't have a link to share, but needless to say if
SF News Bernal Heights Woman Who Was Given 400 Percent Rent Hike Moves Out Today Back in March, the story of Bernal Heights resident Deborah Follingstad getting pushed out of her home of ten years went viral around the Bay Area after she posted the notice from her
SF News 160-Year-Old SF Jeweler Shreve & Co. Getting Pushed Out Of Union Square Building That Bears Its Name The latest victim of rising rents and opportunistic landlords is a heritage retailer of the Union Square area, Shreve & Co., a Bay Area jewelry business that dates back to the Gold Rush
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Tenderloin Basement Of Your Dreams Try to imagine the kind of apartment where, in fiction or in a tabloid murder, the school custodian who is also a pedophile would live, and you might come close to this little
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live With 13 People And A Dog For $1500 It is definitely the case that communal living has made a big comeback in modern-day SF, out of necessity, as the housing market tightens and legions of bushy-tailed twentysomethings arrive here none too
SF News Bay Area Officially Named The Worst Place For Renters (Again) In Forbes' annual ranking of the worst cities in the country for renters, not one but three Bay Area cities now take the top three slots: San Jose (#3), Oakland (#2), and of
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Share A Sh**ty Living Room For $1500 When I started writing this column a couple months ago, I didn't expect the sheer volume of depression-inducing examples of sorry accommodations that have come our way, either through quick Craigslist searches or
SF News House Where Mummified Corpse Was Found Likely To Fetch $2.5M Think something like a hoarder situation with the added bonus of a decomposed, mummified corpse that was several years old will turn off buyers in this real estate market? Think again. The Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF's Comedic Apartment-Hunting Anthem Chris Severn, who tells SFist he's just getting his sketch group DeskFan Comedy off the ground, is clearly no stranger to apartment hunting or its attendant apartment sadness. So, in a song that's
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Real Estate Is So Messed Up That It's Now A Bravo TV Show Bravo, the don't-call-it-basic cable channel, has found its ideal housing market for the next season of the delicious show Million Dollar Listing, as we got wind of last summer. Now we can expect
