SF News SF's Least Expensive Home Sales In 2015 Were All Decrepit Shacks You only need to have clicked on Curbed once or twice this year to have seen that even basic forms of shelter cost a million dollars in 2015 San Francisco, and that unless
SF News $30K/Month Penthouse Still On Market, And Here's A Better Look Inside New York has for a long time had monthly rental rates that crossed into five figures for some well located, higher-end apartments in Manhattan, but such things are still pretty new to San
SF News Have A Cool $20 Million To Spare? Consider Buying This San Francisco Hill. In the Forest Knolls neighborhood of San Francisco sits a hill. The property, which covers 1.15 acres, is currently undeveloped. That may change rather quickly, however, as the lot is presently listed
Arts & Entertainment Years Later, Hibernia Bank Still Might Become A Nightclub, Or A Tech Office We've been following the rumors about what is to become of the grand Hibernia Bank building at Jones and Market for years now. The historic, Beaux-Arts structure from 1892 is one of the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Oakland Man Makes Hundreds Renting Out Literal Shack Apartment Sadness arrives early this week! Sort of... This is less an apartment than it is a decrepit shack that may be a plywood-walled, converted garage. As part of a stunt of some
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: An SRO In An Actual Retirement Home In The 'Loin The trend of trying to fill SRO units that would previously have only been marketable to people on fixed incomes or the relatively indigent/substance dependent with well off newcomers to town has
SF News SF City Attorney Goes After Notorious Landlord Anne Kihagi With Fresh Injunction City Attorney Dennis Herrera has finally had enough with notorious San Francisco landlord Anne Kihagi, filing a motion yesterday for a preliminary injunction against Kihagi in an effort to put an end to
SF News Woman Sells Mission Apartment For 2005 Price — With One Catch In 1993, when Catherine Lee purchased one of the two Mission apartments she owned until recently, the monthly mortgage was $570 on the $90,000 2-bedroom condo. “It was a different era,” Lee
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Lovely Murder Basement In The Bayview, $800/Mo Are you feeling poor, by San Francisco standards, and in desperate need to live within the city limits for less than $1000 a month? You don't have many options, I'm afraid. Even rooms
SF News Most SF All-Cash Home Buyers Are 'Older Affluent People,' Not Techies “We are finding all over the country that all-cash buyers are older affluent people," says John Burns of John Burns Real Estate Consulting in the Business Times, regarding new research his firm conducted
SF News From Dot-Com Palace To Squatter's 'Thug Mansion', Pac Heights Copy Of Versailles Chateau Nears Sale A "known historic resource" according to the City of San Francisco, Pacific Heights' 3800 Washington (between Maple and Cherry) is a "modified replica of the garden facade of Le Petit Trianon," the Versailles
SF News Dropbox To Exit Lease On Headquarters Near AT&T Park With 11 years to go on the lease of its China Basin office headquarters at 185 Berry Street near AT&T Park, cloud storage pioneer Dropbox is looking to ditch the 200,
SF News At High End, SF's Housing Market Finally Cooling Off While doomsayers have believed there was no end in sight to the white-hot home sale market in San Francisco, at least at the luxury end of the spectrum, the market appears to finally
SF News Decrepit Palo Alto Shack Lists For $2 Million Because 2015 This Palo Alto property is "an exciting opportunity to build your dream home in charming Barron Park neighborhood" according to a broker making the pretty reasonable assumption that the existing structures on the
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Jerk In San Mateo Will Rent You Studio For $1400 If You Work For Him This week's listing really made me angry for a few reasons. First of all, it's basically a job listing tucked in under the apartment listings. Second of all, the person listing it, who
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Room With No Walls, $1300/Mo I'm back! Did you miss me and this sad, sad column last week while I was on vacation, far away from the sadness? Well, buck up, because there are a lot more rental
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
