SF News Developer Seeks to Build 75-Story Residential Tower Behind Old PG&E Building on Market Street Another very tall tower could be added to San Francisco's skyline in the coming years, if developer Hines gets what they're asking for on the downtown block that used to belong to PG&E.
SF News Stunning Cole Valley 'Tree House' Sells For $5.6 Million — $2 Million Over Asking A 1970s-era home tucked up near the end of Stanyan Street in Cole Valley — on a hill with sweeping city and Bay views — just sold for $2.1 million over its asking price after receiving 15 offers.
SF Politics As Recall Support Grew, Gov. Newsom Sold His Kentfield Home for $5.7 Million, Records Show As most Californians already know, Governor Gavin Newsom is in the midst of facing down next month's historic recall vote. As he prepared for this challenge earlier on, Newsom was also likely preparing
SF News One Oak Project at Foot of Van Ness Seeks to Add 150 Units The delayed 40-story tower at Oak and Van Ness, which has undergone redesigns and some financing hiccups in the last few years, is back before Planning in revised form.
SF News SF Couple Lands $475,000 Buyout After Renting Presidio Heights Apartment for 30 Years A San Francisco couple in their 60s just got the largest ever tenant buyout from an SF landlord for the seven-bedroom apartment they've rented since the early 1990s.
SF News Showdown Looms Between SF Board of Supervisors and Sunset Residents Angrily Opposed to Affordable Housing One of San Francisco's least-dense neighborhoods, where the city probably should have been pushing for more multifamily and affordable housing for decades, is the site of the latest showdown between city leaders and NIMBY residents.
SF News Seven-Bedroom Pac Heights Mansion Sets New Record for Most Expensive Home Sold In SF at $43.5M A mansion on Billionaire's Row in Pacific Heights changed hands in recent months and, for the second time in three years, it has set a record-high price for a home sale in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Mid-Market's NEMA Seeks City Approval For Corporate Rentals In what appears to be the first instance of a building owner seeking approval from the city under a new ordinance limiting the number of units that can be corporate rentals, the developer behind the NEMA building downtown is looking to convert 200 units.
Business & Tech Sea Cliff Mansion Set to Be Foreclosed Upon for Second Time In a Year Could Be Yours for $17.5M A six-bedroom home with its own private beach cove, overlooking Baker Beach and the Pacific Ocean in SF's tony Sea Cliff neighborhood, is facing its second foreclosure in a year after failing to sell for the umpteenth time in the last decade.
Real Estate 17 Best Realtors / Real Estate Agents in Oakland, Berkeley, & the East Bay If you look into the California real estate market, you'll probably come across tales of people and businesses relocating from San Francisco or Silicon Valley to Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, and the rest of
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rents In SF Likely to Be Back Where They Were By Year-End Rents in San Francisco have regained about half the ground they lost last year, Bank of America is in trouble in federal court over its handling of EDD card fraud, and the SFPD is seeking help finding a missing 84-year-old woman who disappeared in the Richmond District.
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Sponsored 6 Marin County Properties with Staggering $25M+ Price Tags Have Come on The Market in the Past Few Months Within the past four months, at least six mega-properties – real estate with listing prices above $25 million – have gone on the market in Marin County. Among the many elite enclaves of the Bay
Sponsored The Historic Feusier Octagon House Is For Sale. Here Are All 3 Of SF's Eight-Sided Homes That Sold Prior All around the world architects use the octagon to beautify their buildings. The Dome of the Rock has a characteristic octagonal plan. The Tower of the Winds in Athens is another example of
Sponsored Despite The So-Called ‘SF Exodus,’ We Still Had The Highest Concentration of Expensive Real Estate in the U.S. Last Year As national publications, local news pundits, and other talking heads around the country decried the death of California throughout the pandemic, eleven of San Francisco's 51 zip codes made their way onto a new list of the most expensive home values in the country for 2020.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Has Bought Another 600 Acres on Kauai, and Hawaiians Are Pissed Adding to their already significant land holdings on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan recently closed on another deal adding 600 more acres on the island.
SF News New Boutique Hotel The Alton Readies for Opening in Old Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf (With New Restaurant on the Way) Fisherman's Wharf is gaining a new boutique hotel managed by the Kimpton group, in one half of what was formerly a Holiday Inn at 495 Beach Street.
Business & Tech The State of Rental Real Estate in SF: Ziprent And The Rent Decline Reversal As is the case in cities across the rest of the Bay Area, the number of people renting in San Francisco tends to exceed the number of people who own their homes, with
Business & Tech SF No Longer the Top City for Tech Industry Office Space Leasing, Knocked Down Several Notches San Francisco is now No. 6 in an annual study where we'd perennially ranked No. 1, as we fall from the top five in terms of how much office space the tech industry is leasing here.
SF News Stonestown Galleria Parking Lots Could Become 2,900-Unit Residential Village The owner of the Stonestown Galleria mall property has been conducting workshops with nearby neighborhoods to discuss a future development that could create a new neighborhood out of what is now just 30 acres of surface parking lots.
SF News Mid-Market Condo/Hotel Project Delayed; Hotel and Restaurant Won't Open Until 2022 The 408,000-square-foot development at 950-974 Market Street, which began construction in 2018 and was slated to be completed this year, is delayed — in part because of the pandemic and the state of tourism.
Business & Tech Dropbox Headquarters Sells for More Than $1 Billion, In SF’s Second Largest Ever Real Estate Deal In an encouraging sign for the office real estate amidst the ‘everyone's working from home forever’ craze, the four-building Mission Bay complex known as the Exchange has sold for $1.08 billion.
SF News Op-Ed: San Francisco Needs to Follow Berkeley's Lead and Get Rid of Single-Family Zoning The largely racist legacy of single-family zoning took a blow this week when Berkeley's city council voted unanimously to make moves to change its general plan. In housing-starved San Francisco, we are decades late in facing the fact that we live in a city that was developed half as a suburb.
SF News 'Below Market Rate' Housing Units In San Francisco Found to Be Above Market Rate Right Now With apartments going for bargain prices around San Francisco in what will likely be a short-term dip in the rental market, so-called below-market-rate (BMR) housing is tied to other metrics, and renters can find better deals in the open the market right now.
SF News While Rents Slid Last Year In SF, Ritzy Zip Codes Saw 46% Bump In Luxury Home Sales The wealthy have largely not suffered in the pandemic, and if anything, the Bay Area wealthy just opted to upgrade their manses or hunker down further in cloistered, expensive homes.
