SF News Viral TikTok Shows Dire State of Bay Area Housing with Listing of Office Turned Into a Half-Million-Dollar Condo The video shows a 1,000-square-foot San Rafael office converted into a condo — but owners seemingly made minimal changes, only adding a kitchen against one wall and a shower in the bathroom but leaving the industrial carpet and stained ceiling tiles intact.
Arts & Entertainment 97-Year-Old San Francisco Art Institute Campus Hits the Market for Undisclosed Asking Price Could a different school step in and revive the historic San Francisco Art Institute campus on Chestnut Street? We shall now see, as the nearly century-old property has officially hit the market in a bankruptcy sale, for an unlisted sum.
SF Politics YIMBYs Cry Foul Over Lack of Housing Approved Since Passage of SF Housing Element SF has approved barely eight new housing units per month since the city passed its ambitious Housing Element plan, but the reality is that developers haven’t been applying for many permits.
SF News SF Chronicle Now Seems to Regret Amplifying the 'Doom Loop' Narrative It Heavily Amplified The San Francisco Chronicle is standing like a kid who cried "Fire!" amid a rush of sirens and chaos asking what all the fuss is about, as it has a front-page story today about the ramifications of the "doom loop" narrative the paper itself amplified.
SF News Very Few Homes Hitting the Market In SF In Ongoing, Interest-Rate-Related Slump Prices remain very high in San Francisco's for-sale market for homes, but that is partly because so few have come on the market, relatively, over the last year — the lowest monthly number in two decades. And the reason for that is pretty clear.
SF News Shouting Match Escalates Into Violence at Contested Mission District Community Garden There was another dustup this week between some guerrilla gardeners and home-grown internet company Monkeybrains over the contested Parcel 36 in the Mission District, and this time a punch was thrown.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Wants to Put $6M Toward Fixing Up Powell Street, Filling Empty Storefronts The three blocks of Powell Street between Union Square and Market Street are being made a priority in SF Mayor London Breed's proposed new budget, with money being aimed at beautifying sidewalks and finding tenants for some big, vacant stores.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: The Bad Studios and Bunk Beds Are Back Rents are climbing back up in San Francisco and all the landlords with stuff they probably couldn't rent to anyone the last couple years are creeping back onto Craigslist, hoping to find new takers.
SF News SF Home Prices Cooling Down After Hitting Pandemic Highs San Francisco bucked logic and saw its home prices increase during COVID-19, peaking to a record a year ago this time. But the high price of San Francisco houses is starting to come down.
SF News Luxury Condo In Converted Christian Science Church on Dolores Park Sells For $2.1M Under Its 2017 Sale Price The Light House condominiums — the four units that were carved out inside of the domed former Second Church of Christ, Scientist on Dolores Park — have been a thing of fascination for everyone who's looked at the building from the park and heard about its conversion almost a decade ago.
Real Estate Famous Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Della Walker House In Carmel Sells for $22 Million The single-story house was originally only 1,200 square feet and was built for $125,000 for Carmel resident Della Walker in 1952.
housing market Average Home in Bay Area Actually Selling for Less than Asking Price, Data Shows For the first time in a decade, the Bay Area’s tight housing market might be loosening up a little, but it's still not exactly affordable.
SF News NoPa Home Featured on ‘Hoarders’ Sells For $500K Over Asking, Despite Atrocious Conditions A Lyon Street house that made for a very depressing segment on A&E’s ‘Hoarders’ just sold for $1.2 million ($500,000 over its asking price), even though it still very much looked and smelled like a house that had been featured on ‘Hoarders.’
Business & Tech There Are Currently 15 Salesforce Towers Worth of Empty Offices In San Francisco You've been hearing for over a year from the businesses downtown that used to host busy lunch crowds and happy hour hordes that the area is a ghost town most days. But it's not just because the companies that are still there are letting everyone work from home.
SF News Tennis Enthusiasts Serve a Lawsuit To Block Sale of SoMa Property That Had Promised Them Tennis Courts A real estate conglomerate is trying to unload an unfinished property where they’d agreed to rebuild a tennis club they’d previously razed. Now a local tennis group is saying, ‘We’ll see you in court.’
SF News Huge New Housing Development With 45% Affordable Units Approved for Former Transit Hub Site In SoMa The block-sized property in SoMa that became home to the temporary Transbay Transit Center in the last decade will become a three-tower complex with the tallest tower around 40 stories.
SF News Bay Area Home Prices Actually Dropping; Cities Here Dominate the ‘Fastest-Cooling Housing Markets’ List Realtors are popping a little less Champagne, and buyers are no longer offering hundreds of thousands over asking price, as home prices are dropping notably in SF, Oakland, and especially San Jose.
Business & Tech 40-Story Tower at the Foot of Van Ness Goes Before Planning for Reapproval as Rental Apartments Days before its entitlements are set to expire, a very tall proposed residential tower at Van Ness and Market is headed before the Planning Commission this week, now as a significantly larger, all-rental property.
SF News Flooded SoMa High-Rise Tenants Say They Had Hotel Rooms Revoked, Now Forced to Fend for Themselves SFist has exclusive pictures and video from inside the flooding of apartment tower 33 Tehama, but more troublingly, emails showing that several tenants’ temporary hotel accommodations have already been rescinded.
Arts & Entertainment Penthouse Condos In Russian Hill Eichler Tower Owned By Wilsey, Shultzes to Hit Market for $29M A pair of truly unique, top-of-the-world, master-of-the-universe-type properties sitting at one of the highest points in San Francisco are about to come on the market. And they're in a storied tower that has been home to San Francisco's wealthy for decades.
SF Politics Peskin Seeks to Expand Rent Control to New Construction In SF Via Charter Amendment The SF Board of Supervisors will be seeing two proposed amendments to the city charter introduced at their Tuesday meeting, both of which set up fights between the progressive bloc of supervisors and Mayor London Breed over housing.
SF News Former Country-Western Gay Bar Property In SoMa Back on Market A building that housed a longtime gay bar devoted to country music in SF's SoMa District, which was proposed for redevelopment as both a nightclub and a condo building going back a decade, has hit the market again at a reduced price.
SF News One of the Painted Ladies That Changed Hands Two Years Ago Is Back on the Market One of San Francisco’s famous Seven Sisters is back on the market. Leah Culver, the current owner, bought the Victorian house in 2020 for $3.55 million and she’s now listing it for the same price.
SF News The Former Sea Cliff Manse of Sharon Stone and Phil Bronstein Hits the Market for $39M Known to be the oldest home in Sea Cliff, overlooking Baker Beach, the seven-bedroom mansion once occupied by former SF power couple Sharon Stone and Phil Bronstein has just hit the market for the first time since they sold it in 2005.
Arts & Entertainment 'Full House' House Gets Fraudulently Listed For $37M, Local Broadcaster Mistakes It As Real A clearly laughable listing went live on Zillow sometime yesterday or today, showing the famed Full House house on Broderick Street for sale for $37 million — a cool $32 million over what it sold for last year. But the funniest part is that somebody at ABC 7 mistook this as legit.