SF News Revised Tower Plan at South Van Ness and Market Adds Ten Stories, Totals 950 Units A very tall new residential tower may still rise at the site of the former Honda dealership at Market and South Van Ness, with the developer submitting revised plans to the city for the long-stalled project.
SF News Oldest House In San Francisco Sold, Will Become Noise Pop Headquarters The 174-year-old “Abner Phelps House” at Oak and Divisadero streets is considered the oldest house in San Francisco, and it has just changed hands, with plans to make it the headquarters of local music promoter Noise Pop Industries.
SF News Lombard Street Home of Woman Who Fought to Save Redwood She Planted Hits Market For $5.2M A house on SF's famous Lombard Street — the "crookedest" block of Lombard, in fact — has just hit the market, and it has some stories attached to it.
SF News The Bay's Sole Private Island Has Quietly Been Sold Red Rock Island, the San Francisco Bay's only privately owned island, is now off the market, according to real estate site TheRealDeal.
SF News Spec House In Russian Hill, Bought By Sam Altman For $27 Million, Declared a 'Lemon' In New Lawsuit A house that notably sold well below a sky-high asking price in 2020, designed by a renowned SF architect but heavily renovated to the point that the developer was fined by preservationists, is now the subject of a new lawsuit because of its many reported defects.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Laurene Powell Jobs Just Bought a $70 Million SF House Billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs just set a real estate record on Billionaire's Row; smoke from a laptop caused a plane evacuation at SFO; and a fire in West Oakland displaced 20 people and left one person dead.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Full House’ House Back on the Market, Asking $6.5 Million Oh mylanta! The Lower Pac Heights house that served as the exterior of the household on famed sitcom ‘Full House’ is back on the market for $6.5 million, and apparently they’ll throw in vintage concrete slabs that have Bob Saget and John Stamos’s handprints on them, for an undisclosed extra price.
SF News Four-Bedroom Modern Mansion In Pacific Heights Hits Market for $38 Million It won't set a record if it sells for asking price, but a very large home at the edge of Pacific Heights, sitting right beside the Lyon Street Steps, is currently the most expensive home for sale in San Francisco.
Sponsored Iconic French Provincial House with Rare NY Met Wallpaper, Unobstructed Views of Alcatraz Lists in Russian Hill for $12.75M This French Provincial-style building is one of the few classical-style homes on the iconic 1000 block of Chestnut Street in Russian Hill. With expansive views and historic features like ultra-rare NY Metropolitan Museum wallpaper, 1052-56 Chestnut Street is a once-in-a-generation sale.
SF News 172-Year-Old Shreve & Co. Jewelry Store Permanently Closing Its Union Square Shop The venerable San Francisco-based jeweler Shreve & Co. just announced they’re closing up their Union Square shop permanently, though watch and necklace enthusiasts can clean up on 60% off liquidation sales starting this Friday.
Business & Tech Google Is Bailing From Its Offices at Trophy SF Building One Market Plaza A prize tenant is leaving a prized property at the luxe waterfront offices of One Market Plaza, as Google is reportedly vacating its 300,000 square feet of the property when the lease expires next year.
Business & Tech Empty Office Building at Sixth and Market, Which Last Sold for $62 Million, Sells for Just $6.5 Million The 955 Market Street building that was once home to Burning Man headquarters, and then a whole bunch of WeWork offices, is now empty and just sold for a measly 10% of the price it fetched in 2016.
SF News Mystery Buyer Who’s Bought Nearly a Block of Fillmore Street — Including the Defunct Clay Theatre — May Be Identified The Chronicle may have solved the riddle of the mystery buyer who bought the old Clay Theatre and five other buildings on the same block, and unsurprisingly, the person appears to be a wealthy venture capitalist.
SF News Los Gatos-Based HGTV House-Flipper Sentenced to Four Years In Jail for Real Estate Fraud Who’d have thought that a house-flipping character calling himself “Mr. Flip It” on an HGTV reality show would be neck-deep in real estate fraud? South Bay man Charles "Todd" Hill was just sentenced to four years for a $10 million scheme.
SF News Wealthy Peninsula Town Could Get Denser Housing Forced Upon It As State Revokes Its Housing Element The state may be making an example of Portola Valley, which has failed to complete the rezoning necessary to get its Housing Element certified, and now the "builder's remedy" could go into effect.
SF News City of SF Taking Over Lease for Five Floors of the Former Uber Headquarters, May Buy the Whole Building It’s like a 180-degree turn from the “Twitter Tax Break” days, as the City of San Francisco is grabbing office space in the 1455 Market Street building that used to be headquarters to Uber and Stripe, with an option to buy the whole building.
SF News SF Condos Are Starting to Sell Again, and the Twisty Mira Tower Is Almost Sold Out While condo sales, especially in downtown San Francisco high-rises, were sluggish at best through the pandemic, things appear to be turning around. And one notable tower only has a handful of units left to sell.
Business & Tech Former Instagram Offices In Downtown SF May Be About to Become TikTok Offices In a clear sign of the times for social media, some newish, high-end office space in San Francisco's SoMa district that had been leased, pre-pandemic, by Meta when it was in a rapid growth phase, looks to be getting subleased by TikTok parent company ByteDance.
SF News SF’s Former Biggest Landlord Veritas, Now Defaulting to the Tune of $1 Billion, Selling 762 More SF Apartments The local downfall of SF’s one-time biggest residential landlord Veritas Investments continues unabated, as they’re selling off more San Francisco properties, this time 23 buildings with 762 rent-controlled apartments.
SF News Developer Shares Expanded Plan For 560-Unit Residential Project on Former CPMC Campus in Laurel Heights Plans have shifted for the former California Pacific Medical Center campus at the edge of Laurel Heights and Presidio Heights after a new developer bought the property over a year ago.
Business & Tech Big Investor and Protégé of Warren Buffett Looks to Buy 3 Million Square Feet of SF Office Space A man whose family fortune was built in part on investing in New York real estate during the dark days of the 1970s in the city is reportedly bargain hunting right now in the San Francisco office market.
Real Estate 16+ Best Property Management Companies in SF of 2024 Property managers in San Francisco range from traditional teams who handle every aspect of the rental process to new-age apps that interface with renters and landlords through a smartphone. This list covers the options.
Real Estate 21 Best Realtors & Real Estate Agents in San Francisco (2024) In the ever-evolving, fiercely competitive, and often unpredictable landscape of San Francisco's real estate market, having a savvy, experienced, and dedicated realtor is not just a luxury, it's a necessity. As the city's
SF News Foreclosure and Potential Sale of Oceanwide Center Project In Downtown SF Headed to Court (Again) After liens and lawsuits, a judge could decide to initiate the sale of the property of the never-built Oceanwide Center, but who would buy it?
SF News Phoenix Hotel Property Hits Market For $15M, Could Be Redeveloped as 450 Residential Units The beloved, retro, SoCal-motel-feeling Phoenix Hotel, which has always been a charmingly out-of-place oasis in between Civic Center and the Tenderloin, may not be long for this world as the property has just hit the market for $15 million.