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
SF News Real Estate Sadness: Crumbling Noe Valley Shack Lists For $1.6M I don't know. Do we really need to get into this? It's another tale of crazy real estate prices, a total tear-down, and the desperation of some with money to own a little
Arts & Entertainment SF Realtors, Please Stop 'Starring' In Your Listings Videos Yes, it's true: San Francisco's pricey real estate is out of reach for most of us, but that doesn't mean we don't enjoy (and or hate-enjoy) looking at it. So today I have
SF News 600-Unit Residential Building Slated For Van Ness And Market The third "under-developed" corner of Van Ness and Market, a city-owned office building at 30 Van Ness that's currently home to a Walgreen's and the Department of Public Works, is now slated to
Arts & Entertainment Someone Needs To Turn This Former Oakland Bowling Alley Into Something Awesome The former Dimond Bowl, a long-ago eight-lane bowling alley that hasn't been in use for bowling since the 1970s or 80s, is up for sale, and it's kind of an amazing space. For
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Mission SRO For Just $1300 A Month This week's featured housing option it can't exactly be called an apartment is a single-room occupancy residential hotel smack in the heart of the Mission which has been advertising its rooms on Craigslist
SF News One Rincon Hill North Tower Expected To Sell For $400 Million Then Convert To Condos One Rincon Hill's north tower isn't just an apartment building. It's a record-setting apartment building lifestyle. Its height? Nearly incomparable in the Bay Area. Its beauty? Unparalleled. Its glory? Unfathomable. To put a
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live With A Lot Of Rules, And 'Not Forever,' With Noe Valley Couple For $2200/Mo I'm bringing you a pre-holiday bit of Apartment Sadness prior to tomorrow's day off, just so you can get it over with, wipe away the tears, and get on with celebrating America. Today's
SF News Lucky (?) Buyer Snags Mummified Corpse House For $1,029,500 Remind me, which one of you had $1,029,500 in the how-much-will-the-Richmond-District-hoarder-house-go-for pool? Because you won, congratulations! Congratulations also go to the "lucky" (?!? sure, why not) buyer-to-be, whose $1,029,500 bid
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
