SF News Was It Useful To Protest Evictions At The TechCrunch Disrupt Conference? A group of protesters gathered Wednesday to disrupt, as it were, the final day of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Pier 48 and bring attention to the issues of eviction and gentrification that
Arts & Entertainment If <i>Full House</i> Happened Today, The Tanners Couldn't Afford That House You know how Full House might be getting a revamp? Yeah, well, in today's real estate market, could any of those lovable characters actually afford that lovely Victorian they shared with their adorable
SF News Have The New S.F. Tenant Protection Measures Done Any Good? It may be too soon to tell if any of the laws passed in the last two years protecting tenants and making evictions more expensive for landlords will ultimately have an impact on
SF News Evicted Tenants In Expensive Nob Hill TIC At Center Of Court Case Over New Ellis Act Law Remember when we talked about how 1100 Sacramento Street was set to become the city's most expensive TIC ever, and possibly its biggest? And remember how at the time there were apparently 10
SF News New Condo Tower 181 Fremont Skirts Affordable Housing Requirement The pretty new glass tower going in at 181 Fremont, in the Transbay Redevelopment District, looks like it's going to get away without including any units for non-rich people as Socketsite puts it,
SF News Condo Prices Might Actually Be Starting To Come Down In some proof-positive of the law of supply and demand, prices of newly constructed condos in San Francisco actually came down 3 percent in July. The latest monthly report from The Mark Company
Arts & Entertainment Chelsea Handler Might Be Moving To San Francisco Comedian/talk show host Chelsea Handler has never been one to shy away from a tussle (see her most recent Instagram shot above, captioned "I'm a Kardashian'"), but is she tough enough for
SF News San Francisco Hits Million-Dollar Median Home Price, Just In Time For 'Million Dollar Listing' TV Show To Arrive In your either horrifying or glorious (depending on who you are) residential real estate news for the day, here's what you need to know: the median price for a home in San Francisco
SF News 98-Year-Old Woman Still Fighting Eviction From Her Home Of 50 Years [Update] We first told you about the pending eviction of 98-year-old Mary Phillips (then 97) back in September. She remains in her home at 55 Dolores Street, where she's spent the last 50 years
SF News Condo In New Linea Complex Appreciates $200K In Two Months? Everybody knows the refrain: Real estate in this town is crazy! Here's your latest exasperating evidence: A two-bedroom condo that first sold in late April for just under $1.2 million, in the
SF News Tiny Coastal Town, Pop. 18, Sold To San Luis Obispo Couple There's a wee little town along Highway 1 called Harmony, about six miles south of Cambria, that's home to several artisans and has always been owned by a single family. The downtown is
SF News Cost Overruns Might Kill That Cool Transbay Transit Center Roof Park, By The Numbers When the new Transbay Transit Center was announced, one of its highlights was expected to be its “City Park,” a public 5.4-acre rooftop park. Touted as one of the building's "many environmentally-friendly
SF News Ellis Act Reform Bill Killed For Real, Leno 'Profoundly Disappointed' State Senator Mark Leno's effort to prevent cases of real estate flips in Ellis Act evictions, after getting an 11th-hour save in the Senate a few weeks ago, has finally died in committee
SF News New Ballot Measure Would Unleash Vengeful Taxes On House Flippers Supervisor Eric Mar and a group of tenants activists proposed a new ballot measure yesterday that, if passed, would impose a hefty "antispeculation" tax of up to 24% on any budding real estate
SF News Oakland Home Sales Prices Growing Far Faster Than San Francisco's While the median home sales price for the city of Oakland is far lower than many of its neighboring areas, it might not be that way for long: an analysis of MLS data
SF News Mission Development Property Breaks Real Estate Record A development property on 16th between Valencia and Guerrero, the Superior Automotive site at 3150 16th, just sold for $8.7 million in a land deal that may be the highest price ever
SF News Realtors' Lobby Helps Quash Anti-Ellis Act Legislation It may not be dead yet, but Senator Mark Leno's bill in the California legislature, which would have required building owners to own a building for at least five years before invoking the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe May Have To Move As Developer Aims To Build High-Rise There The popular four-year-old SoMa restaurant Marlowe, which sits across the street from the CalTrain station, is in danger of having to move or close as an LA-based developer has bought the building with
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Getting Sued By Palo Alto Developer In Property Dispute Because he's stupidly rich and likes to snap up multi-million-dollar properties like second-hand hoodies, Mark Zuckerberg recently spent $43 million to buy up four pieces of property adjoining his own Palo Alto residence,
SF News NEMA Tried To Erase The Castro And Chinatown From Their Map Of S.F. Luxe apartment complex NEMA, whose ridiculous and vaguely offensive marketing efforts have already inspired plenty of blog ire as well as a satirical Twitter account, published a map of San Francisco on their
SF News Infamous SoMa 'Landlords From Hell' Featured on 'Good Morning America' Does everyone remember Kip and Nicole Macy, the charming couple who were trying to flip a building they owned on Clementina Street in the mid-aughts and resorted to some crazy and illegal tactics
SF News Local Ellis Act Law Dissed By Mayor Lee As State Limits Move Forward A new statewide law that will prevent Ellis Act evictions by flip-happy real estate speculators passed a judiciary committee vote 5-2 and is expected to be heard on the full Senate floor next
SF News City Attorney Makes Examples Of Two Greedy, Eviction-Happy Landlords Just as that compromise legislation regarding short-term rentals like Airbnb makes its way through Board of Supervisors approvals, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is taking two landlords to task for doing something the new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa's Hottest Real Estate Is A McDonald's In SoMa, ground zero for hot office leases, the next big property sale could be a tiny corner lot with an Extra Value menu. According to the San Francisco Business Journal, which often
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Home Restaurant Site In Castro Could Maybe Become 7-Story Condo [Updated] Many denizens of the Castro and Lower Haight have bemoaned the now blighted, three-years-vacant former Home restaurant property, which lost the chance to become a Chipotle last year and has languished ever since.
