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
SF News Sale: One Private Island In The Bay, Any Treasure On It, Just $5 Million In a price slash from a previous 2011 listing of $22 million, the 5.5 acre Red Rock Island — the only such privately held land in San Francisco Bay — is on sale for
SF News 'Flintstone House' In Hillsborough Lists For A Rumored $4.2 Million Off Highway 280, there's a house in Hillsborough that looks better suited to the town of Bedrock. Yes, the "Flintstone House," as it's affectionately known, has been something of a roadside attraction since
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bidding War Over A Totally Sub-Par, Illegal Mission Apartment The satirical web series Tech Boom!, which I reviewed here last fall, has just come out with a second "season" of five brief episodes, of which the one above may be the funniest
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: An SRO That Calls Itself An SRO For the second week in a row we have a spiffed-up SRO that some owners are trying to fill with a better class of tenant than they've likely previously had, given the location
SF News 16th And Mission Developer Suing Land Owner, Project Could Be Doomed This is interesting, and may spell doom for the project that many a Mission activist would love to see doomed: The developer behind that massive, 330-unit building proposed for 16th and Mission is
Arts & Entertainment At Least We Don't Have To Worry About Glenn Beck Moving To San Francisco Thank god for conservative commentator Glenn Beck! He might have just solved San Francisco's housing shortage, by stopping those who would move here in their tracks. Beck, who left Fox News in 2011
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Prison-Cell-Like SRO They're Calling An 'Efficiency' I considered highlighting another expensive atrocity this week - a $6500 one-bedroom that comes with some nice countertops, proximity to Duboce Park, free SF maid service, and constant noise from the Muni light
SF News Cautionary Graffiti Spray-Painted Onto Jaw-Droppingly Expensive Duboce Park Apartment Building The Lower Haight building with the $6,500 1-bedroom already got tagged. 🚫💲 “Don’t Waste Your $” A photo posted by Andrew Dalton (@dolfapedia) on Aug 13, 2015 at 11:04pm PDT On Wednesday,
SF News If You've Got $3,000 A Month To Spend On A Studio, There Are Now Hundreds To Choose From All those construction cranes you've seen across the city the past couple of years are finally resulting in a ton of new housing, however it's still not enough to satisfy demand and it's
SF News Prominent Castro And Market Property To Go Back On The Market After Judge's Ruling A multi-year legal drama that's unfolded between the majority owners of the ARCO gas station site at Castro and Market and a developer who entered into a purchase agreement with them 11 years
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Four-Bedroom, Eight-Bed House Perfect For Your Cult Somebody in the Inner Richmond has this fairly large house that they wanted to lease for top dollar. The strategy: stuff enough beds in its four bedrooms so that it sleeps 13, and
SF News [Updated] Hayes Valley-Adjacent Section 8 Project Being Sold To Speculator, Flipped As Market-Rate With $7,000 Rents? We're getting word of a crazy story, without complete details, about a possible pending sale of a Section 8 housing project at 1049 Golden Gate Avenue, near Laguna, that was built with help
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: How Much Would You Bid For This Awful Cave? Ah, greed. Rather than pick a price based on comparable local units, one landlord in the Inner Richmond has decided to auction his crappy studio unit and only take applications from the highest
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Sunday: Tour The Million Dollar Mummified Hoarder House Because you are here, you know all about the Richmond District Mummy House, I assume. The hoard-filled home that contained the corpse of its former owner was cleared out in April, went up
SF News Once Again, Someone Blames Progressives For The Housing Crisis If you live in San Francisco, or if you've lived here in the last few years, you've participated in this debate 100 times already. Why do we have an affordability crisis? Because we
SF News Will Somebody Please Buy This Entire City Block For $10 Million And Do Something With It Already? While San Franciscans fight desperately for more housing in some neighborhoods, an entire Portola District city block zoned for development has languished for roughly two years on the market. Socketsite reports that there's
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live In A Sad Sunset Garage For $1300 In a bid to provide affordable housing for area students, one Sunset family is generously offering the use of their converted garage for a mere $1300 a month. A few years ago, a
