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New 'Bubble Index' Says SF Is Seventh In The World For Housing Bubbles

To say that San Francisco housing is overvalued, inflated to the point that it borders on a bubble, might seem to imply that these prices might go down, the bubble bursting or at

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Ask A San Francisco Native: If You Could, Where In SF Would You Buy A House?

In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers and take

New Mid-Market Shopping Mall Decides To Embrace Sixth Street Connotations, Rebrands As 6X6

After multiple delays, the six-story shopping center that once intended to be value-oriented, and previously going by the names CityPlace and Market Street Place, will no open as soon as November under the

Coder Details Life Inside 13-Person Possibly Illegal Airbnb Located In Luxury Mission Bay Tower

The story of the starry-eyed youngster moving to San Francisco and into an over-priced community living space as he or she attempts to learn to code and land a top-paying job is now

Behold The Newest Most Expensive Condo Listing In SF: An $11.9M Four Seasons Penthouse

Our friends at Curbed regularly track the city's most violently expensive home and condo listings. And seeing as we all enjoy drooling over these glimpses we get of how the 0.01% live,

In New Renter Confidence Survey, SF Gets An A-Minus, Oakland Gets An F

Let's all read this with healthy skepticism with its presumed biases and unexplained sample size, but a new survey of local renters from the site ApartmentList.com gives San Francisco an overall satisfaction

'Native Son' Carl Nolte Weighs In On Whether San Francisco Has 'Lost Its Soul'

Longtime "Native Son" Chronicle columnist Carl Nolte, who you might expect would be one of the first to decry the ways in which San Francisco has changed for the worse, penned a column

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'Mrs. Doubtfire' House Will Soon Be For Sale

In the second bit of special house news to hit this week, we learn that the home made famous by the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire will soon be on the market. SocketSite reports

You Can Now Rent The 'Full House' House For $14K A Month

Those all-grown-up 90's kids who found companionship through their television sets in the likes of sitcom families such as the Tanners and the Winslows now have a chance to make the fantasy world

Prices Slashed As Millennium Tower Units Languish On The Market

Sitting on a hot piece of real estate in present day San Francisco can sometimes feel like you've pocketed the golden ticket — all you need to do is cash that thing in and

Oakland Housing Crisis Is Also A Health Crisis, County Health Director Declares

Alameda County Public Health Department head Dr. Muntu Davis has declared Oakland's housing crisis a health crisis as well. The East Bay Express writes that Davis is drawing on a new study conducted

Turn This Nine-Bedroom Dolores Street Home Into An Ersatz Hotel, Says Broker On Craigslist

"Dolores Park, Whole Foods... everything's around here," says real estate Broker Bill Harkins as he introduces possible tenants to 283 Dolores Street in a video tour of the space. But what's going on

Governor Brown's 'By Right' Housing Fast-Track Proposal Dead In The Water

A proposal by Governor Jerry Brown to pass sweeping legislation that would speed up residential development across the state by bypassing various local review processes has lost all momentum and appears fully dead,

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Apartment Sadness: Brosef Wants New Bro To Share Bro Pad

I'd like to think this is a joke, one of the many fake ads that people post to Craigslist just to amuse themselves and others. But, sadly, I do believe it's real. I've

Report: SF Rents Are Probably Never Going To Drop

With the news that rents in San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland all went down last month, many of us briefly allowed a previously forbidden thought to flicker across our minds: Could the

You, Too, Can Live On A Houseboat In Sausalito For $3M

Houseboat culture in Marin: It seems so romantic! Now you could own one of your very own if you happen to be willing to spend as much as you would for a luxury

Report: San Jose, Not San Francisco, Has Highest Median Home Price In Country

Our neighbor to the south is on its way to becoming just a little more memorable with the news that San Jose now has the highest median home prices of any metro area

Palo Alto Planning Commissioner Publicly Resigns Saying She Can't Afford To Live There Anymore

It's a familiar story these days up and down the Peninsula — person gets priced out of the city in which they've lived for years as housing costs skyrocket, and is forced to uproot

Apartment Sadness: NY-Based Co-Living Startup 'Common' Arrives In SF With $2,600 SoMa Dorm Rooms

Common, a "co-living" startup based in New York that acts as a property management company, was recently profiled in a New Yorker article that nicely contextualized it in the history of city dorm-like

Twitter Lists More Than 1/4 Of SF Headquarters For Sublease

Correction: This post originally stated that the portion of Twitter offices for sublease represented a quarter of the company's space in San Francisco overall. In fact, the figure is greater than that, though

Millennium Tower May End Up Sinking Almost Three Feet, Says Expert

In what could end up becoming the most expensive real estate legal battle in SF history, the Millennium Tower sink-and-tilt debacle deepens with a further look by the Chron's Matier & Ross, who

<i>Full House</i> House Sells Under Asking, For $4M

If you were hoping to own a bit of '90s TV history, I'm sorry to say you didn't act fast enough. Because as we told you back in May, the Full House house

Piedmont Ranked First, San Pablo Dead Last In Ranking Of Best Bay Area Suburbs

A new ranking by the site Niche of 100 Bay Area towns and cities nearly all of them that are not San Francisco, San Jose, or Oakland finds that traditionally tony suburbs like

SF, Oakland, And San Jose Rents All Went Down Last Month

Three of the costliest rental markets in the nation — San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose — were all in decline last month according to analysis from Zumper, on whom we have come to rely

Nine-Story, All Below-Market Complex Likely Headed For Folsom And 17th

Perhaps pointing to the fact that moratorium on Mission development wasn't wholly necessary, there are a total of four fully below-market-rate developments now in the pipeline in the Mission in addition to the