SF News Victory For TIC Owners As Board Of Supervisors Votes to Clear Lottery Backlog A whole bunch of condo conversions are set to occur in the next couple of years as the Board of Supervisors voted last night to approve legislation to clear a backlog of over
SF News S.F. Takes Lead In National Home Price Uptick A piece in the NYT yesterday confirms that San Francisco is winning the race to become the most expensive place to live anywhere ever. In the ongoing, much talked about economic recovery, home
Arts & Entertainment This Mission Creek Houseboat Will Make You Cry The New York Times is good at reminding us about everything we're not. We're not especially fashion conscious by comparison, we're not preoccupied by Ivy League admissions (thank god), and we're certainly not
Arts & Entertainment Hot Airbnb Item: Live In A Van For $520/Month As noted on Uptown Almanac, this harrowing Airbnb ad wants you to live in a van--a van--on Mission Street for only $520 a month (or $480 a week). Behold: I have a 1990
SF News Oy, Evictions In S.F. Hit 12-Year High The number of evictions across the city have officially returned to dot-com boom levels not seen since 2001 according to new numbers released by the San Francisco Rent Board. During the period of
Arts & Entertainment 'North of NOPA' Now a Thing? The skidmarks at Coldwell Banker, hawking 2020 Ellis, have helped coin a new neighborhood name. And it's disgusting. Anza Vista/Western Addition is now allegedly called—are you sitting down?—North of NOPA.
SF News Map: S.F. Ellis Act Evictions (1997-2013) Brian Whitty put together a map detailing Ellis Act evictions taking place from 1997 to 2013. The majority of the evictions, predictably, happened in the Castro, the Mission, the Marina, and Potrero Hill.
Arts & Entertainment Why Is Mission Bay So Ugly? You know that piece of etiquette we mentioned last week? The one that said not to put down other neighborhoods? Let's press pause on that real quick. Because we have a yellow-stucco bone
SF News Renters And TIC Owners Pitted Against Each Other In Current Real Estate Climate We are back, once again, to dot-com-boom levels of Ellis Act evictions, begging the question of whether rent control really exists in any real way. And is there a way to protect longtime
SF News All Together Now: The S.F. Rental Market Is Insane It's time for your semi-monthly reminder that the apartment rental market has become completely, demoralizingly, grotesquely expensive and competitive. KQED just published this piece by Sam Harnett who relays a first-person tale of
SF News Atherton, Hillsborough Top Priciest ZIP Codes List New York City's Upper East Side and the Silicon Valley towns of splendor and wealth in California dominated Forbes' 2012 Priciest ZIP Codes List. Atherton (#3), Hillsborough (#5), Los Altos Hills (#7) all
Arts & Entertainment A Look at What $6,500/Month Will Get You In SoMa/South Beach SFGate's On the Block blog is once again flipping their lids over rising rents around town, and they highlight some of the more egregious examples in what we'd call the rip-off department. Take,
SF News Glossy Mag Asks: Is the New Tech Boom Destroying the City? The October issue of San Francisco Magazine is out, and the cover story deals with something pretty much everyone has been talking about for the last two years. The headline: "How Much Tech
SF News Foreigners Scooping Up Lots of Bay Area Real Estate You know who's grabbing a lot of deals as housing prices remain sluggish around the Bay Area? Canadians. Also, British folks, the French, and some Chinese, Australians, and Germans too. As the dollar
SF News Hibernia Bank Building Might Finally Become Something Next Year This morning's dispatch from the Tenderloin by Chuck Nevius because he is ever interested in how to gentrify our city's crackiest blocks brings news that there has been a little recent movement with
Arts & Entertainment Should the Public Vote On Boxy 8 Washington Condo Complex? A minor debate is percolating over the 8 Washington condo complex set to rise at the waterfront. Said complex will renovation the existing Pacific Sports Resorts at the Gateway facilities and "transformation of
SF News Middle-Finger Building Will Get Shorter Finger Next to It Starting Today Groundbreaking begins today on the long-delayed second tower at One Rincon Hill, originally set to be built just as the financial crisis began. The new, shorter tower will hopefully make the much maligned
Arts & Entertainment Note From A Capp Street Eviction Party Uptown Almanac's Kevin Montgomery attended his first eviction party last week. Some of you might recall the bratty eviction parties from the days of yore (or as recently as 2010) where entitled twentysomethings
SF News Lives of the 1%: Marin Couple Razes $4.2 Million House Because It Blocked Their View Perhaps you don't understand how absurdly rich people are up in Marin. Especially in Belvedere. Well, Clark and Sharon Winslow, who own an 11,000-square-foot, $19 million mansion with its own "resort-style health
SF News Middle-Finger Building Still Having Trouble Selling Priciest Units One Rincon Hill, which is not so affectionately known around town as the Middle Finger building because of its position, off by itself in the skyline (and its, ahem, uninspired design), just brought
SF News Site At 15th & Dolores Was Once A Church Likely Burned Down By Aryan Brotherhood You know that house at the corner of 15th and Dolores that's been totally gutted and lifted off its foundation like it's going to be moved somewhere? Well, today Curbed (and SFist commenter
SF News Yelp Claims Space in Historic Pacific Telephone Building The historic, Art Deco Pacific Telephone & Telegraph building at 140 New Montgomery is undergoing a major renovation as we speak, and they just signed their first major tenant: Yelp. As the Chron
SF News Airbnb The Latest Tech Company To Sign Big Lease In SoMa Airbnb, the legitimate way for people to get cash for letting people crash on their couch, just signed a 10-year lease in the Giftcenter building at 888 Brannan, for a space that's about
SF News Another Day, Another Story About How Scary The Apartment Market Is Getting Back in November the press was kvelling about how the vacancy rate for apartment rentals was reaching dot-com-era levels, and, yeah, it's only gotten worse in six months. There was a story on
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Former Leather Bar The Eagle Sanitized, Ready For Leasing At $15K The SoMa gay bar formerly known as The Eagle has been stripped of its dark lighting, license plates on the wall, and all of its history. It's also ready for leasing. "The bygone
