SF News Gov. Jerry Brown Declares War On NIMBYs And Planning Commissions With New Housing Bill You may have heard some rumblings about this in recent weeks, but Governor Jerry Brown has been pushing through a revision to the state's density bonus program that would potentially wipe out the
SF News Sale Of $39M Home (With Doggy Spa, Aviary) Will Go To Pet Shelter When you meet the property at 7 Country Oak Lane, you're faced with a number of questions. First: Where, pray tell, are numbers 5 and 6 Country Oak Lane? This spot, in the
SF News This Is What You Learn When You Archive 68 Years Of SF Rental Listings In 1954, San Francisco ran out of large, vacant land tracts to build on. The city realized it was in a housing crisis in 1966, launching a Housing Report that year which continues
SF News CEO Of Apartment-Bidding Startup Blames Game, Not Player Alex Lubinsky, CEO of the instantly infamous rental application and bidding startup called Rentberry, recently confided to Curbed that he overpaid for his apartment in SoMa. By way of defending his service, he
SF News New Startup Turns Renting Apartments Into eBay-Like Bidding War A new startup hoping to capitalize on the feeding frenzy that is trying to rent an apartment in San Francisco launches tomorrow, and may succeed in driving Bay Area rents up even higher
SF News Most Bay Area Homeowners Saw 50 to 100 Percent Increases In Home Value Since 2004 A new interactive map from the Washington Post, illustrating a story about how the nation's economic recovery over the last decade has been far from complete, and heavily weighted toward wealthy areas, is
Arts & Entertainment Say Goodbye To <i>Million Dollar Listing: SF</i>... Forever Thank Christ. The well dressed and ultra-pretentious train wreck that was Million Dollar Listing: San Francisco will go down as a one-season flop as Bravo announces that they won't even bother giving it
SF News Historic Gay Bars Cited As Possible Reason To Block Massive Mid-Market Development A massive, 12-story mixed-use development that would include 250 residences and 232 hotel rooms just ran into trouble, and could potentially be pushed back years, as a result of the efforts of one
SF News Visualizing The Hub, A Proposed Home For Tall Buildings Around Market While one nook of Market Street, basically an area from Market to Mission between Valencia and 11th Streets, has been included in 2008's Market and Octavia Area Plan, now the Planning Department is
Arts & Entertainment Gorgeous, Historic Penthouse Inside Rincon Clock Tower Going For $8.5M If you want to live like a Bond villain/unrealistically wealthy man-child Tom Hanks in Big, get a load of this penthouse loft that just came on the market at 461 Second Street,
SF News SF Homes Prices, Heart Rates, Just Dropped For The First Time In 4 Years A report from online real estate brokerage Redfin that was picked up by Bay Area Real Estate website The Registry, among others, has a bit of news that may soothe the souls of
SF News This Scary Bayview Lot, Near Notorious 'Kill Zone,' Priced At A Mere $450K Looking for a piece of vacant land available in San Francisco on which to build your dream home, and don't want to cough up the money for some decrepit shack that comes with
SF News Extremely SF Startup Negotiates Buyouts On Rent-Controlled Units Landlords have been required to publicly disclose buyout agreements made with their tenants since 2014, finally giving us some numbers and transparency into what has previously been a shrouded subject last year. That
SF News One-Bedroom Rents Basically Flat Since Last Year, According To New Map What a fun map! Last June, real estate website startup Zumper put median one-bedroom rents in San Francisco at $3,500, which was up from $3,200 in 2014. Now they're at $3,
SF News Another Bloodless Condo Building Poised To Replace Tower Car Wash While San Francisco remains in desperate need of more vertical housing, it is harrowing to witness the unfurling of such staid, almost intentionally watered-down units pop up around the city. The most recent
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Goes To Rio On PG&E's Dime Did you know that Mayor Ed Lee is in Brazil this week? Well, he is, on a trip bought for him by a flock of high-powered big business donors. Here's Lee's daily calendar
SF News Planning Commissioner Loses It On Twitter Over Gawker's SF Housing Scold Last week, here on SFist, I got a little mad at Gawker editor Hamilton Nolan for stepping into a discussion about San Francisco's housing crisis a discussion in which he really does not
SF News Now Gawker Scolds San Francisco For Not Building Enough Housing OK, can we all agree that, at the very least, New Yorkers and Angelenos can stop telling us how stupid we've been, collectively, as the city of San Francisco in not preparing for
SF News 'Mission Realty Bingo' Calls Out Absurd 94110 Real Estate Listings Haven't you always wanted to "find a cultural Mecca?" Or maybe you're more the type searching for "a quietly concealed modern powder room, perfect for guests during an evening of artistic revelry?" No?
SF News Horrific Outer Sunset Teardown Goes For Almost A Million The home of your nightmare's worst nightmares sold on Monday for a mesmerizing $952,000. Located at 2055 20th Avenue in San Francisco's Outer Sunset, the deceased abode landed on the market priced
SF News Local Gallery Owner Who Planned Mission Location In 2014 Is Now Flipping Building, Probably For Condo Development 2548 Mission Street, situated between the Alamo Drafthouse / New Mission Theater and the famed Foreign Cinema restaurant is, though a beautiful old building, not protected as a historic resource. Still, Mission Local was
SF News Look Inside The Smallest House On The Market In SF While it's no $1.2 million shack, the above pictured 363-square-foot house is currently the smallest home on the market in San Francisco. Expected to go for over its $495,000 listing price,
SF News Single Unit In Former Church By Dolores Park Hits Rental Market For $28,000/Month Remember those renderings we showed you last month of The Light House, the converted and luxuriously renovated former Second Church of Christ Scientist that has long laid vacant and condemned next to Dolores
SF News Teeny Hayes Valley Studios With No Parking Hitting Market For $500K One of those "micro unit" buildings we've heard so much about has been completed at 388 Fulton Street (at Gough), and one of its itty bitty, 350-square-foot studios could be yours starting at
SF News Tiny Decrease In SF House Flipping Gives Faint Hope For Cooling Market In what some are hoping is a sign that the San Francisco housing marketing is cooling a bit, the percentage of homes flipped in 2015 represented a decrease over the previous year. Flipping
