SF News Millionaire Slum Lord Accused of Arson Plot Roach motel owner, millionaire, and Tiburon resident, Richard Singer, has been arrested and is facing a ten year prison sentence, a $125,000 fine, and arson charges for allegedly plotting to torch his
SF News What's Up, Medjool? SFist's very own Andrew Dalton clears up some rumors about Medjool (a notorious rooftop Mission bar that privileged white twentysomethings loathe because another faction of privileged white twentysomethings enjoy it) over at Curbed.
SF News Dream House Gets Drastic Price Cut The lovely folks at Curbed have word that the famous 815 Alvarado Street house in Noe Valley, the Dream House for the Yerba Buena Center's popular annual auction, is on the market. And
SF News Meet the Neighbors Aw, this is cute: new homeowner Maureen Futtner seems excited to be moving in to her freshly-built home at 555 Bartlett, in the North SoCha neighborhood. So excited that she's throwing a Meet
SF News Bay Area Is Home to 6 of the 10 Zip Codes in the Country Where Homes Sell Above Asking Price We know all of you are *riveted* by real estate news, but we thought you might like to know that sales seem to be picking up speed both in pricier and hard-hit zip
SF News Snoozeflash: Many Rentals Are Being Handled By Brokers These Days You've likely noticed that more rentals are being handled by brokers these days, as this is not a new trend. As the NYT reports today, often late to the game as they are,
SF News Before/After: 350 Mission Oh boy. We love us some upward growth. And how. While the City Planning Department completes its save-the-whales report (EIR) on the proposed 24-story structure at 350 Mission, yesterday they released renderings of
SF News More Necessary Neighborhood Abbreviations Revealed Local online types suffered violent fits of uncontrolled hysteria this week after SFGate proudly and justly declared SoCha a new boutique neighborhood south of Cesar Chavez.. (For those of you who patriotically refuse
SF News Yay! Another Neighborhood Abbreviation: SoCha Fresh on the heels of SOMISSPO and Brock's nomination of LORI (Lower Outer Rincon Hill), the Chron today tells us about a brand new neighborhood abbreviation. And it's not just any new neighborhood,
Arts & Entertainment The Second Annual Dream House Raffle We got the pretty flyer in the mail yesterday for the second annual Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Dream House Raffle, and Curbed and Socket Site already have the scoop. This year's
misc It's Not the Gorgeous New Federal Building, That's for Sure Curbed is making us think again with their new contest: name the ugliest building in San Francisco. And in a city famous for its twee charm, there's still an impressive from which to
misc What Going On Here, Rocket House? We don't know where you are or why you're built like a rocket, but we're sure glad you're here.
SF News Asian Home Ownership Up; African-American Down by Amy Crocker Asian home ownership in the Bay Area has risen over the last ten years. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the top ten surnames of home buyers in 2009
SF News Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen's Fictitious Childhood Home for Sale by Amy Crocker The house featured in the opening credits of "Full House" is for sale for $4 million. Built in 1896, 722 Steiner is on Alamo Square's "Postcard Row." It should be
SF News City to Potentially Unleash Whoopass on Academy of Art University Owner of Nob Hill and issuer of valuable art school degrees, Academy of Art University, is reportedly in big trouble with the City of San Francisco. It would appear that over the last
misc The Cruise-Holmeses Moving In to Sea Cliff? Stranger things have happened, but we sort of doubt these rumors about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes having maybe possibly been the top secret buyers of one of the most expensive properties in
SF News Second Phase of the Hunters Point Shipyard Redevelopment Plan Unleashed The second phase of the Hunters Point Shipyard Redevelopment Plan was released yesterday by Lennar Corporation. If approved by the City's Redevelopment Agency next Tuesday, the second phase will add 159 townhomes and
SF News Breaking: Twitter Founder Sells Home, Buys Home The fine folks over at Curbed reported yesterday that Twitter co-founder Evan Williams (heretofore known as @ev) sold his SOMA penthouse (going for a scant $1,498,000) on Fourth Street. You know,
SF News Nob Hill Cala Foods To Get Replaced By Condos While some Valencia Street merchants and Geary Boulevard business owners would have you believe that San Francisco is a bastion of overpriced boutique stores and inaccessibility, respectively, most of you are too smart
misc Depressing Empty Union Street Storefront Collage Curbed featured this photo montage sent in by reader Ben of storefronts that are empty or for lease along Union Street from Gough to Fillmore. Check out the larger version.
SF News Daly Move Watch 2K9: Daly and Wife Paid $545K Cash for Fairfield Homes The man who has spent his local political career championing the rights of the Tenderloin poor, the SRO-dwelling, and the owners of property more likely to be made of cardboard than of concrete,
misc Last Chance to Enter to Win the San Francisco Dream House, Deadline Friday Friday's the deadline for the last (Grand Prize) drawing of the San Francisco Dream House Raffle, which benefits Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Buy a $150 ticket, and you could win a
SF News A Meme Is Born: Flagging CitiApartments' Craigslist Ads Adding to CitiApartments constant woes, SFAppeal has word that the troubled real estate company has been inundated with complaints from tenants, accusing them of refusing to refund security deposits. Habitually, it seems. Ted
SF News Quote du Jour: Concierge Out / Key Card In It seems real estate construction types are finally -- finally! -- realizing in 2009 that no one can afford their mindnumbingly thoughtless, albeit impressive and mildly erotic, InfinityBeaconOneRinconBLŪ luxury towers. San Francisco Business
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sign of the Times: Bong Su, Anyone? by Ted Weinstein Are there any foodies out there feeling particular daring? Want to start a restaurant? Looks like you can grab the keys and drive one right off the lot, according to
