Arts & Entertainment Photos: Presidio Terrace, San Francisco's First White-Only Neighborhood At the risk of stepping on Sally Kuchar's esteemed toes, we sure do enjoy prime real estate. Who doesn't? Today, via the choice photography of Whole Wheat Toast, we bring you a series
SF News Want to Buy an Island in the Bay? Got $22 Mil You Can Scrape Together? Red Rock Island is just a pile of rock in the middle of San Francisco Bay, over near the Richmond Bridge, but it's a privately owned pile of rock that spans three different
SF News Facebook Stalking: Mark Zuckerberg's New Palo Alto Pad After becoming the target of the tech paparazzi and moving out of his last residence, the Facebook frontman has finally upgraded himself to a living situation befitting of a real grownup who is
SF News Glen Park Condo Buyer Has Buyer's Remorse After Finding Out Neighbor Is an S&M Enthusiast [Updated] It's not every day that the Business Times runs a story like this, so we we simply had to mention it. A fellow named Jack Hagerty closed on a condo unit last week
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 13: The Reality House Raffle Have you put down money on YBCA's Dream House raffle? Call us crazy, but dream houses are tedious: all those supernumerary rooms one must fill with furniture (that’s a lot of curb-salvaging)
SF News Medjool Owner Unloads Giant Value for Condo Development The ongoing saga surrounding developments at Mission and 21st Streets got a new chapter this morning when the SF Business Times reported Gus Murad has unloaded the former Giant Value property to Oyster
SF News San Francisco: Very Vacant According to U.S. Census data collected over the last year, 8.3% of homes are vacant, or one in every twelve, which is a higher percentage than in any of the other
SF News Underground SF for Sale The Lower Haight's only true nightclub, Underground SF, is up for sale. In fact, the entire building can be yours for around $1.5 million. According to Haighteration, the owner is "looking to
misc An Alternative Solution to Vallejo's Hooker Problem Over at the national edition of Curbed they're taking a look at surprisingly nice homes for sale in bankrupt towns across America - and that includes our neighbor to the Northeast with the
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
