SF News Score This Electromagnetic Field-Blocking Paranoia Chamber For Just $8.6 Million Unit 4 at 2170 Jackson Street is a safe space for the concerned and electromagnetically sensitive among us. Though it was sold back in 2007, it was still, as Curbed puts it, a
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Tenderloin Basement Of Your Dreams Try to imagine the kind of apartment where, in fiction or in a tabloid murder, the school custodian who is also a pedophile would live, and you might come close to this little
SF News Airbnb Violations Now Being Used More Often Than The Ellis Act In Evicting SF Tenants Many San Francisco renters, especially those living in rent-controlled units, have likely had to sign leases, or revised leases, with their landlords in recent years that specifically prohibit short-term rental of the unit
SF News Local Writer And SF Native Daisy Barringer Says The City 'Feels Broken' Now I've tossed in my three or four cents about why the changes currently roiling our fine city aren't some kind of death knell and I firmly believe that a city needs to change
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Goodbye To The Elbo Room, For Real, Come November As SFist discussed well over a year ago, prompting fast denials from the bar's owners, the Elbo Room is indeed headed for closure to make way for a condo building. As Mission Local
Arts & Entertainment Rex Ray's Former Lofts Up For Sale, Could Include Art And Furniture The late artist Rex Ray, who passed away in February at age 58, purchased two lofts in the Allied Box Factory building (2169 Folsom near 18th) back in 2001, one of which was
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live With 13 People And A Dog For $1500 It is definitely the case that communal living has made a big comeback in modern-day SF, out of necessity, as the housing market tightens and legions of bushy-tailed twentysomethings arrive here none too
SF News This May Be San Francisco's Most Disgusting Apartment Building That seedy looking apartment building you see on the right as you're coming off the Central Freeway off-ramp at Octavia is actually more terrible inside than you already imagined. Some 40 tenants are
SF News Bay Area Officially Named The Worst Place For Renters (Again) In Forbes' annual ranking of the worst cities in the country for renters, not one but three Bay Area cities now take the top three slots: San Jose (#3), Oakland (#2), and of
SF News San Francisco's Tiniest Condo Sells For $415K, 39 Percent Over Asking Remember this tiny 265-square-foot TIC from the other week that was asking $425K? Well, a barely larger unit, but an actual condo, that clocks in at 291 square feet on Howard Street in
SF News Mission Slumlord Locks Tenants Out Of Building A landlord in the Mission locked 23 tenants out of a building this week that had been deemed unsafe and uninhabitable by a city building inspector. The building at 938 Hampshire Street, as
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Share A Sh**ty Living Room For $1500 When I started writing this column a couple months ago, I didn't expect the sheer volume of depression-inducing examples of sorry accommodations that have come our way, either through quick Craigslist searches or
SF News House Where Mummified Corpse Was Found Likely To Fetch $2.5M Think something like a hoarder situation with the added bonus of a decomposed, mummified corpse that was several years old will turn off buyers in this real estate market? Think again. The Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Fluorescent Lit Luxury At Third And Palou The hot deal I found for you today is this 100-square-foot room, listed under the apartments section because it apparently has a "private entry," which you could spend a few miserable months in
SF News House Sadness: 265 Square Feet And No Living Room The smallest house currently on the market in SF is this guy, as Curbed shows us. It's a ground floor TIC next to the Presidio, on Baker, and for $425,000 which, yes,
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Real Estate Is So Messed Up That It's Now A Bravo TV Show Bravo, the don't-call-it-basic cable channel, has found its ideal housing market for the next season of the delicious show Million Dollar Listing, as we got wind of last summer. Now we can expect
SF News Desperate Local Home Buyers Now Bidding With Stock Options In the process of selling his Noe Valley home, which has been written up in the New York Times and was listed at the beginning of last month for $1.895 million, Klout
SF News Poll Shows 65% Support For Halting Development In The Mission According to a late February survey of 602 likely voters conducted by David Binder and Associates and reported on by the Examiner, 65 percent favor a time-out on “new project approvals in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Blondie's Bar In The Mission Is Endangered Too Bars in the city where you can still drink on the cheap are slowly getting picked off, one by one, and the latest that appears to be in the sights of potential developers
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Squalid Living Room And Bunk Bed To Call Your Own Are you on the run from an assault charge and in desperate need of a place to crash? Are you in the witness protection program or escaping an abusive home and seeking a
SF News This Shack Just Sold For $1.2 Million This is not a joke. This is the world we live in. The above, ramshackle, four-bedroom home, albeit with unobstructed views of the ocean along the Great Highway, just sold for $1.2
SF News 45-Year-Old Downtown Toy Store Jeffrey's To Close In April, Still Might Relocate A beloved, iconic downtown toy shop one of the last independently owned toy stores in the city is being forced to close next month after a steep rent hike. Used as an inspiration
SF News Rents May Go Down For Apartments and Offices According To New Report According to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) based on responses from real estate investors, coupled with data from commercial real estate brokerages, we can expect a slowdown in rental growth in office and
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Your Very Own Walk-In Closet. No Really. For some reason, these people wanted a roommate by March 15th, and they couldn't find one! I can't figure it out! There's another open house tonight, you guys. Get on this. This spacious
SF News Nema Developer Already Looking To Sell? The developer of the mid-Market apartment building everyone loves to hate, Nema, looks to be selling a "minority stake" in the complex just two years after it was completed (and before parts of
