SF News Mission House Selling For Eight Times What It Sold For Three Years Ago Today in house sadness, a formerly dilapidated three-story house on Treat Avenue in the Mission was fully fixed up by some new owners in the last couple years, and it's now selling for
SF News The Real Story Of The Great Highway Shack That Sold For $1.2 Million Is Priceless $1.2 million, 13 offers, $400K above asking. But a new story about the sale of the shack at 1644 Great Highway — a "sure flip" — flips the script entirely. What many thought was
SF News SoMa Community Groups File Appeal Against Big 5M Development Claiming that developers and the city have teamed up to fast-track a massive, improperly zoned SoMa development on 5th and Mission Street, a group of protesters gathered this morning at the San Francisco
SF News Inside The $350K, Maybe Non-Demolishable Disaster Shack Update: In the end, the 'Disaster Shack' at 16 De Long Street got six offers over ten days on the market and sold for a whopping 16.5% over ask at $408,000
SF News The Mission Moratorium (Sort Of) Explained At Yesterday's City Hall Press Conference Yesterday was a big day for advocates of Proposition I, otherwise known as the Mission Moratorium, as proponents of the controversial measure took to the steps of City Hall to make their case
SF News Marin Headlands Home With Killer View, In National Park, $6500+/Mo Are you paying to live in San Francisco but craving a more rustic life still within striking distance of that downtown office? Do you have a yen for landscape painting? Then look no
SF News This San Francisco Driveway Can Be Yours For The Low, Low Price Of $50k For those desperately trying to stay afloat in the never-ending struggle that is the San Francisco rental market, buying a spot to call your own sounds like the ultimate dream. We're right there
SF News Metallica Drummer Lars Ulrich Abandons Plans For Marin Mega-Compound, Lists Property for $39 Million Here's some serious rendering porn. It seems the world was never meant to have a rock-star owned, Marin-based, mega-compound with the charming name of "Omega 3" grace its surface. But oh, for a
SF News This Is What Market And Van Ness May Look Like In A Few Years On the left you have the latest design for One Van Ness, by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta. On the right, a proposed residential tower at Mission and South Van Ness by Skidmore Owings
SF News SF Now Has More Million Dollar Homes Than Anywhere In The US SF's median home price hit $1 million over a year ago, which is a lot considering how many of those homes are just flats. And now, as data from real estate site Trulia
SF News San Francisco Has Always Been A Pretty Expensive Place To Live Lots of people have lots of memories of cheap apartments and cheap burrito dinners in the Mission of the 1990's. And while there have been eras of relative stability in San Francisco when
SF News Many More Families Living In Tiny SRO Units Than There Were A Decade Ago Just another depressing local real estate factoid to kick off your week: According to a new census by the SRO Families United Collaborative, there's been a 55 percent uptick in the number of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Biergarten Lease Extended To 2021, Housing Be Damned Two years back I thought that Biergarten, and the rest of the popular temporary Proxy complex in Hayes Valley, had been given an extended lease to 2021. But that turned out to be
SF News Crumbling Outer Mission Shack Listed For $350K Might Be Historic, Not Demolish-able A crumbling, tiny shack that was recently listed for $350,000 in the Outer Mission/Oceanview and subsequently made the viral rounds because, yes, this is what property is worth here despite the
SF News Uber Plops Down In Oakland, Buys Huge Former Sears Building Uber has just announced that it's buying a huge amount of office space 350,000 square feet purchasing the former Sears building on Broadway in downtown Oakland. When rumors of the deal circulated
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: North Beach Flophouse With Bedbugs, $1450/Mo Wow. So, a tipster turned me on to this site, a "housing services" outfit from a real estate group called Latitude 38, and in addition to offering furnished corporate housing they also offer
SF News Interactive Map: These Famous Neighborhoods Across The World Cost The Same As Yours Does If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, surely you do so for a reason — perhaps some of the 50 we listed a few months ago that signal our continued radness. Maybe
SF News After Bids Mount, San Francisco's Mummified Corpse House Sells For $1.56 Million Over two months after the tentative acceptance of a $1,029,500 bid for one of San Francisco's most infamous homes, the offers kept on coming... to the point where the gross and
SF News John King On New Luxury Downtown Apartments: 'This Isn’t The San Francisco That Most Of Us Know' Architecture and urban design critic John King has penned his official thoughts on The Jasper, that 40-story tower on Rincon Hill that's just opening up for renters, and he sounds sort of disturbed.
SF News Larry Ellison Buys Giant Palo Alto Hotel In Life-Size Monopoly Move This just in: Billionaire yacht cheater and proud Hawaiian island owner Larry Ellison just paid $71.6 million to buy a huge-ass Palo Alto hotel. The Business Times reports that Ellison is basically
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Bunk Bed Room, Sleeps Six, Real Cheap Remember this little of corner of hell from a few weeks back? Well I'll do you one better: This sorry piece of housing for the desperate is upstairs from a Thai massage parlor
SF News Are We Seriously At The Point Where People Are Selling Teeny Slices Of SF For $200K? There's something called "Betteridge's law of headlines" which reads "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." And while nine times out of ten Betteridge is
SF News People In Portland Are Putting 'No Californians' Stickers On Houses For Sale You think Oaklanders are pissed about San Franciscans moving there and driving up housing costs? Observe Portland, where a certain symbol sticker, showing the state of California with a line through it, has
SF News Apartment Sadness: A Box With A View For $3300 (And It's A Share) It used to be that you could save money finding a share in these parts. But not so much in SoMa, and not so much in fancy high-rises. This is an ad that
SF News SoMa Developer Proposes Two-Bedrooms That Are Exactly The Same As One-Bedrooms How's this for shady? A developer looking to put up a seven-story, 274-unit apartment building at 333 12th Street is trying to skirt zoning laws that call for a certain mix of larger
