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.
SF News Sea Cliff Mansion With Illegal Staircase to Beach About to Sell Via Bankruptcy Trustee for $10M Under Its 2021 List Price A frequently listed Sea Cliff property that's been on and off the market at various exorbitant prices in the last few years was re-listed after the new year, and appears ready to change hands once again for well under its asking price.
SF News San Francisco's Only Private Island, Red Rock, Hits the Market Again The uninhabited rocky outcropping in the middle of the SF Bay, divided among Contra Costa, Marin, and San Francisco counties, has been for sale for generations, and this time, it'll cost a cool $25 million.
SF News Fight Over Late Dianne Feinstein’s Estate Gets Even Fiercer, As Daughter Allegedly Changes Locks on Marin Property Katherine Feinstein is accused of changing the locks of a Stinson Beach home from the estate and staging it for sale for $8.5 million, against a judge’s orders, according to new court documents.
SF News House Sadness: Condemned Home That Was a Meth Lab Listed for $1.55M A condemned house that had been home to a confirmed meth- and bomb-making lab in San Jose has just hit the market for $1.55 million.
SF News Historic Warfield Building Moves Forward Toward Residential Conversion; Eight Other Downtown Buildings Could Follow While we still may be years out before we see lots of residential units hit the market in former downtown office buildings, at least eight landlords of downtown buildings are putting out feelers about converting — and the developer behind 100 Van Ness is eyeing a big building on Spear Street.
SF News Berkeley's Famed 'Hot Tub House' Hits Market For $899K It was a year ago last week that we learned of the death of Deward Hastings, a man whose name was not widely known but whose property has been visited by thousands of in-the-know East Bay residents for nearly 50 years.
Business & Tech Veritas Investments May Have Found a Buyer for Its Defaulted Loan Portfolio, and It’s an Ex-Westfield Mall Owner A new buyer has emerged for the nearly $1 billion in defaulted properties for the city’s biggest residential landlord Veritas Investments, and its Brookfield Properties, a partner that just walked away from the Westfield Centre shopping mall.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic Signs Lease for Former Slack Building Downtown Fast-growing AI firm Anthropic is subleasing Slack's former HQ at 500 Howard; the feds are considering moving marijuana out of the list of Schedule I drugs; and westbound I-80 will be closed around the Carquinez Bridge for five days starting tonight.
Business & Tech OpenAI Rumored to Be Close to Signing Deal For One of Uber's Mission Bay Buildings In what would be one of the first big office-lease deals in San Francisco since the mad sublease sell-off wave began during the pandemic, AI pioneer OpenAI is said to be in "serious" talks to take one of Uber's four buildings next to the Chase Center in Mission Bay.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Kooky, Highly Specific, Unfinished House In the Berkeley Hills Asks $1.19 Million One man's dream house that he set out to build in the early 1970s and never completed before his death last year has hit the market for the first time, and it's a very unique Berkeley hills property to say the least.
SF News Viral TikTok Shows Dire State of Bay Area Housing with Listing of Office Turned Into a Half-Million-Dollar Condo The video shows a 1,000-square-foot San Rafael office converted into a condo — but owners seemingly made minimal changes, only adding a kitchen against one wall and a shower in the bathroom but leaving the industrial carpet and stained ceiling tiles intact.