Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 100 Square Feet Of Beauty In Portola More and more on the cheaper end of things on Craigslist I'm seeing listings like this one, and that last one, that are illegal dwelling units if anyone cared to enforce the law.
SF News Landlords Now Suing Over Tenant Buyout Law As the Board of Supervisors tries valiantly to push back against the market forces that are displacing many tenants in rent-controlled apartments across the city, landlords and the industry group the San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Condo Building Replacing Lucky 13 Just As Ugly As Expected If you were expecting great beauty and architectural innovation to replace beloved dive bar Lucky 13 near Church and Market, you obviously haven't been up on the dominant trend in Upper Market residential
SF News Notorious Landlord Accuses 70-Year-Old Grandmother Of Dealing Drugs In Mission Eviction Fight A 70-year-old woman who has enjoyed the same rent-controlled Mission apartment for four decades is now facing some newly aggressive tactics from a landlord who wants her out. As CBS 5 is reporting,
SF News Here's What $10.5 Million Buys You On Russian Hill You thought that $5 million South Park pad last week was expensive? Allow me to show you a condo of similar size that is currently commanding the highest per-square-foot price in the city.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A 'Conveniently Located' 170-Square-Foot Illegal In-Law Are you just about done with this life, unable to afford much more than $1000 in rent, and wholly unconcerned with the attractiveness of your surroundings? Allow me to point you to the
SF News Here's What $5 Million Buys You On South Park Two new expensive luxury condos just hit the market and given what I've been hearing about the market will probably not stay there long on the ever-desirable South Park in SoMa, listed for
SF News 16th And Mission Developer Doubles Number Of Affordable Units If you're building a mammoth development in San Francisco like the one proposed by Maximus Real Estate Partners for 330-ish apartments at 16th and Mission, there are a couple of rules. You're required
SF News Mark Leno Once Again Proposes Bill To Slow Down Ellis Act Evictions In a third attempt at curbing speculative Ellis Act evictions by opportunistic investors, state senator Mark Leno is introducing a bill this session, similar to one that failed to pass last year. The
SF News Oakland Rents Are The Second-Fastest Growing In America The price tag on those greener pastures east of San Francisco has been getting a serious markup. According to a report from local real estate site Trulia, rents in Oakland have increased 12.
SF News Market And Duboce Site Gets A Condo Plan The last three years have drastically transformed the area of Market Street between Castro and Church as previously undeveloped lots have seen new luxury rentals and condos rise swiftly out of the ground.
SF News Amended Ellis Act Relocation Law Caps Landlord Payouts At $50K Supervisor David Campos has come back to the Board with a new, dialed back version of the Ellis Act payout legislation that was previously passed and took effect last summer only to be
SF News Vast Space Underneath Civic Center Plaza Might Actually Become Something Useful KTVU - A massive piece of real estate, albeit 26 feet below ground under Civic Center Plaza, might be turning into something fun someday, as KTVU is reporting. The 90,000-square-foot, city-owned storage
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Rent A $1500 Closet In A House Shared By 60 People Wow. So, this room in SoMa just popped up on Craigslist in a "co-ed community house" which, if I had to guess, has a A LOT of turnover. Why do I say that?
SF News Even More Teeny Micro-Units Proposed For Hayes Valley Remember those 174-square foot shoeboxes that are going into one of the multiple narrow residential lots along the east side of Octavia Boulevard? Well, the whole stretch is filling out, planning-wise, and now
SF News Here's How Mayor Lee Promises To Ease The Housing Crisis In His 2015 State Of The City Address This morning Mayor Lee delivered his State of the City address at the newly completed Phase 1 of the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market in the Bayview chosen because it's the first new
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Berkeley Tiki Hut Edition For this week's edition of Apartment Sadness, I take you across the Bay where someone is renting out an "in-law" that is more accurately described as a "tool shed in the backyard with
SF News SF Not Quite As Bad As Manhattan Or Miami When It Comes To Absentee Condo Owners Remember back in September when 48 Hills sorted through a bunch of condo sales data to determine that some 39 percent of new condos in the last 14 years had been sold as
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: 280-Square-Foot Sunset 1-Bedroom For $1280, Or Is It a Studio? As of today, I'm moving our Apartment Sadness column out of the News category and into Arts & Entertainment, because I'm pretty sure these posts are just being enjoyed for a dose of
SF News Apartment Sadness: 225-Square Foot Mini-Studio With Bunk Bed Goes For $1750/Mo Remember the sad Noe Valley "mini-studio" from three weeks ago that was going for $1425/month? Well, it gets worse. Over near Duboce Park, as Curbed shows us, you could have nine more
SF News Behold, The 15 Most Expensive Homes Sold In San Francisco This Year We've still got two weeks of 2014 left yet so, who knows, maybe there are more $8.6 million home sales in the works in San Francisco? But according to SF Gate, this
SF News Apartment Sadness: 216-Square-Foot Mini-Studio Hits Market For $1425/Month If you would like to live alone in Noe Valley, you have no furniture besides a bed, and you're a relatively tiny person who does not cook and owns no clothes, I've got
SF News Only Six Percent Of New Housing Units In Immediate Pipeline Will Be Affordable To Middle Class Mayor Ed Lee has been making a point this year of addressing the dearth of new housing that's actually affordable to people who make average incomes as opposed to the wealthy or the
SF News New Map Shows How Expensive It Is To Rent An Apartment Near BART Click to enlarge It's no longer true that if you get priced out of San Francisco you can just move east as we learned last week, rents in Oakland are actually shooting up
SF News Report: Which Neighborhood Home Values Appreciated The Most? A suspicion-confirming report from Paragon Real Estate Group points to three neighborhoods that have seen the greatest bump in home values since the financial crisis: Bayview, the Inner Mission, and Bernal Heights (in
