Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Tent Near Google For $965/Month This week's Apartment Sadness came in via the tip line a couple days ago, and subsequently blew up in the local media for reasons that should be obvious. Some opportunistic 22-year-old dude who
SF News SF Houses Go For $1 Million Over Asking Because Realtors Are Under-Pricing Everything There's a weird psychology happening now around SF's over-heated and wildly expensive housing market. Basically, if realtors put things on the market for what they actually should be priced at, given all the
Arts & Entertainment You Can Own Whoopi Goldberg's Long-Ago Berkeley Home For $1.275M Actor and comedian Whoopi Goldberg, n&233;e Caryn Johnson, did some of her first work as a performer in Berkeley in the 1970s, and it was there after she had her
SF News Richmond District Mummy's Tomb A Steal At Under $1 Million Though some expected this notable 1904 Queen Anne Victorian at 152 Fourth Avenue in the desirable Lake District to fetch as much as $2.5 million despite its disturbing past, that now seems
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Someone In The Excelsior Carpeted Their Basement Just For You This is what it's come to for under $1000, everyone. Someone has "newly remodeled" these two "rooms," which do not appear to have separate entry doors but do have separate bathrooms, and they
SF News Watch SF's Median Home Sale Prices Rise Beyond Your Means, To $1.36M Some new depressing reports have arrived from Paragon Real Estate Group well, I should clarify that these reports are manna from heaven for everyone trying to sell a house or condo in this
SF News Out In The Avenues: Forget That Million Dollar Shack, Here's A Million Dollar Dirt Lot Many of us marveled when a dilapidated shack along Great Highway sold for $1.2 million in March, but most agreed that the value wasn't in the four-bedroom dump in the listing — as
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Studio With A Wet Bar, No Guests Allowed, $1500 It's obvious as one trawls through Craigslist these days that there are a lot of inexperienced landlords trying to pawn off parts of their homes that aren't in use onto desperate people who
Arts & Entertainment The Onion Suggests San Francisco Should Just Move Out Of San Francisco Already The Onion has come around to mocking SF's skyrocketing rent woes. Their solution: Our pretty city by the Bay has "no choice but to look for a spot further inland." To wit: “It
SF News Much Like The Nema, Apartments At The Jasper Are Wildly Expensive The new sister building to the now notorious Nema, dubbed The Jasper, is nearing completion and has now put its unit floorplans and rental rates on its website. The 40-story tower, as Curbed
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Another Illegal, Kitchen-Less Cell You know you have a right to a kitchen, right? Yeah, even if it's just a sink and a hotplate and a mini-fridge, that's what's required to exist in a legally rentable unit.
SF News Stop Saying That SF's Median Rent Is $4225 Yes, we know that the rental market in SF is crazy, but figures about what the actual median rent is here have been widely exaggerated, misunderstood, and irresponsibly quoted quite often over the
SF News Supervisors Kill Moratorium On Mission Market-Rate Housing, 'This Is Not The End' Says Campos The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted down a proposed temporary moratorium on market-rate housing in the Mission District last night, putting an end to an exhausting eight-hour meeting. Supervisors Mark Farrell, Scott
SF News Peek Inside Albion Hall, A Mission Treasure You Can Never Afford 143 Albion is quite the address. Remodeled to become a four-bedroom residence in 2009, it's now on the market for $6.5 million, which Curbed indicates is one of the highest asks ever
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission & 16th McDonald's Closes With the Van Ness McDonald's already gone and the Third and Townsend McDonald's highly likely to to disappear soon, Egg McMuffin and Big Mac aficionados are going to be even sadder about the
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Box Truck Edition My apologies for the hiatus. There was Memorial Day weekend and then last Friday rolled around, the tip line was quiet, and there simply wasn't an apartment worthy of my depression as May
SF News Breaking: Many Tech Workers Are Being Priced Out Of Bay Area A KPIX headline that's getting splashed around social media since last night proclaims "Even Techies Can't Afford the Bay Area Anymore," but there's a bit more to it than that. As Redfin CEO
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oh No!!: Dottie's True Blue Cafe Up For Sale Many people were panicked when brunch-time favorite Dottie's True Blue Café abruptly, temporarily closed back in February it turned out to be due to one of the employees suffering a severe burn and
SF News 18th Street Duplex Sells For 114 Percent Over Asking We already know that everything from teensy condos to hoarder hellholes are selling for well over their asking prices in this sizzling real estate market we're in. But watch what happens when a
SF News Study: Airbnb 'Commercial Hosts' Definitely Keeping Long-Term Rental Units Off the Market A lot gets said about Airbnb in relation to average moms and pops and everygal/guys who are renting rooms to tourists for a little extra cash, or renting their apartments while they're
SF News Rube Goldberg House Gets Landmark Status, Potentially Foiling Eviction We learned back in November of the case of four tenants occupying two rent-controlled units on the second floor of 198 Gough, which is also home to 20th Century Cafe and was, historically,
SF News Study: NY And SF Rents Are Dragging Down The US Economy A new study by two economists out of UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago suggests that overall national growth, as in the gross domestic product, is being strangled by the insanely high
SF News City To Help Subsidize 'Middle-Income' Rents In New Housing Bond If Mayor Lee's $250 million housing bond measure gets approved by voters in November, there will for the first time ever be public money going to below-market-rate rental housing geared specifically to residents
SF News One Buyer Bought Both Of Those Pricey South Park Condos For $8 Million Get ready to be sad again about how not-rich you are: A couple recently closed on those two extremely nice, newly built condos on South Park which were listed separately for $3 million
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Toolshed To Call Your Own For $800/Month This week's edition of Apartment Sadness came in via the tipline from some apartment listings in the Stanford University classifieds. Thus, we don't have a link to share, but needless to say if
