SF News More Than Half Of Bay Area Homes Are 'Unaffordable' Now According to new data from Zillow, only 45 percent of the homes for sale in the Bay Area are considered "affordable" to home buyers who make the median income of $77,000 per
Arts & Entertainment Local Photographer Lampoons SF Rental Market Photographer Scott Hampton is parodying the ridiculous housing market situation we're in with a humorous photo essay he calls SF: For Rent. He even put one of them on Craigslist, and it's still
Arts & Entertainment Realtor Responds To 'The Quad,' San Francisco's Newest Fake Neighborhood It's been over a week since SFist (and Curbed) brought the Quad to your attention. The Quad, god save us all, was the brainchild of Paragon realtor Jennifer Rosdail, and it's not a
Arts & Entertainment Realtor Creates 'The Quad': San Francisco's Most Appalling/Intriguing New Neighborhood Paragon realtor Jennifer Rosdail has created a new neighborhood called The Quad, and it will make you want to rip off your eyelids. But before you start tearing off ribbons of your own
SF News Two Big New Condo Buildings Headed To Market & Sixth A 186-unit condo building has been proposed for 1028 Market Street, the site currently occupied by the long-shuttered Hollywood Billiards, and another 301-unit building is headed in next door at 1066 Market Street.
SF News Map Suggests That SF Rents Aren't As Crazy As You Think We've all read the reports: San Francisco's rents are rising impossibly quickly, people can't afford to live in San Francisco anymore, and if you lose your apartment, you may never find another one.
SF News 33 Percent Of San Franciscans Think S.F. Is Getting Worse, Says Dubious Poll According to the annual CityBeat poll conducted by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, a full third of San Franciscans think the quality of life in the city is on the decline. The
SF News Google To Take Over Space In The Mission [Updated] It's official: The Mission is over. In an effort to lure techies who don't want to work in downtown San Francisco or get inside a private bus and head down to Mountain View,
SF News Holy God, 950-974 Market Street Is Going To Be Huge A development project that kind of dropped off our radar reappears via some new renderings today, via Curbed, and dear god it's another enormous hotel and arts center that will help to completely
Arts & Entertainment Shake Your Fist At This 2BR Rental On Valencia Going For $10,500 [Updated] UPDATE: As some commenters have pointed out, this ad could be a hoax. How very political theater! Alas, no, via Uptown Almanac, it's not. Allow the exceptional TK of 40 Going On 20
SF News There Are Still Communes For Rent In The Haight Lest you think the entire city has been condo-ized or TIC'd, or at the very least subdivided into studios that rent for $3000 apiece, please observe this listing that's been up for a
SF News Law Firm Putting On Another Event To Better Teach Landlords How To Evict Here we go again. The Law Offices of Bornstein & Bornstein and Bay Property Group have invited you to learn the art of kicking out tenants. There's money to be made and those
SF News Market Street Cinema To Become Yet Another Condo Building Historic, seedy and possibly haunted Market Street Cinema at 1077 Market Street has joined the march to oblivion, as its owners have agreed to sell to a developer who will raze the 101-year-old
SF News Former Building Inspector's Twin Peaks Home Mysteriously Slides Down Cliff Unfortunately (or fortunately) for developer and former president of the city's Building Inspection Commission Mel Murphy, a house he was renovating at 125 Crown Terrace collapsed Monday night around 10:30, as the
SF News There's A New Style Of Commune Living In S.F., For Those Who Never Want To Be Alone Likely inspired by this story about the new communal living development going up at Harrison and 12th, the NYT today jumps on the bandwagon with S.F.'s new-style commune scene. The euphemism
SF News Concerned Tenant Responds To Awful NEMA Promotional Video NEMA, that luxury high-rise mammoth on Mid-Market, just released another promotional video. Oh, brother. It's not good. This one has so many white heterosexuals splashing around a sun-drenched pool, you'll need SPF 55
SF News New SoMa Development Is Like a Fancy SRO For The Middle Class The developers of a new communal-living development at Harrison and 12th consisting of 235 studio units divided into nine separate "houses" insist that it won't just be for students and young tech workers.
SF News Condo Prices Are Soaring, Too We talk a lot about rental prices and middle-income-earners these days, but the somewhat-better-off have it hard too! Those looking to buy a condo in San Francisco right now are going to find
SF News Art Agnos: 'It's All But Over For The Poor In This City' We've said it several times, and now progressive former mayor Art Agnos chimes in for NPR in a national story about how shitty San Francisco's real estate market now is for the middle
SF News It's Official: This Boom Is Bigger Than The Last Boom, At Least For Office Space In the past three years alone, as the Chron is reporting via a new report by CB Richard Ellis, tech companies have leased 40% more office space than in the entire five-year period
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On Dolores: Insane New Home Redefines 'Median Rent' In Noe Valley, where home prices are soaring, some merry pranksters are taking the term "Median Rent" literally with this cozy-looking statement that popped up in the middle of Dolores Street. Frankly, we're
SF News Luxury Mid-Market Building Open House Featured Pool Mermaids, Dancing Monkeys, Plant People NEMA, mid-Market's most unabashedly homogenous new apartment building held an open house Thursday night for future residents, potential lessees, and local gentrification watchblogs in search of Instagram fodder. While the idea of a
SF News Majority of San Franciscans Say 'Build More Housing' A new poll conducted using a "demographically representative" group of 630 San Francisco voters found that a vast majority, 68 percent, feel that more housing development is the solution to the city's current
SF News Middle Class Screwed In Current S.F. Housing Market As we all know and have talked endlessly about for several years, getting a decent apartment in San Francisco is damn near impossible unless you make a six-figure income, preferably upwards of $150,
SF News Campos Holds Hearing On Ellis Act Evictions; Mayor Ed Lee Gets On Board With Legislation We told you last week that Supervisor David Campos is pushing the City Attorney to draft legislation that would create a greater disincentive to landlords considering Ellis Act evictions. Yesterday Campos held a
