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
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
