SF News Zynga CEO Selling Off Swank S.F. Real Estate To Avoid Stalker? Mark Pincus, the Zynga CEO responsible for CityVille and a slew of other Facebook games that blew up your news feed in 2010, has listed two San Francisco homes on the market just
SF News Occupy SF And Oakland To Occupy Individual Homes Facing Foreclosure Today We want to be supportive of the Occupy movement. We do. But as with all things (and like most Americans), we bore easily. But we're trying to stay alert and remain positive as
SF News Occupy Comes To The Castro, Bayview, Tenderloin, And The Mission Today Neighborhood-specific Occupy protests are happening simultaneously today in four 'hoods around the city which organizers say have experienced the highest rates of "eviction for profit." 99-percenters are being called to gather in the
SF News Flush With Prospective Renters, Landlords Now Charging Application Fees You've heard the unfortunate news, right? With a shiny new tech boom getting into full swing, apartment hunting in S.F. is once again a contact sport that may require you to maim
SF News S.F. Apartment Vacancy About as Low as During Dot-Com Era Whoa. So remember how the rental market in S.F. around 1999 was at like 2% vacancy and you had to like show up to open houses with your last three bosses, your
SF News Tim Lincecum Sued for Allegedly Trashing Mission Pad A former landlord of Giants star Tim Lincecum has sued the two time Cy Young Award-winner for allegedly wreaking havoc upon his Mission district apartment. The landlord alleges that Timmy trashed an estimated
SF News Anyone Want To Buy A Castle? Albion Castle is a historic building that once was the site of Albion Brewery on Hunter's Point, ca. 1870 until Prohibition, but was later converted to a residence in 1939. It's been on
Arts & Entertainment Why Are You Not Living in Tony Bennett's Mansion Already? The classy crooner may have left his heart in San Francisco, but now he's also leaving his home in Belvedere. As Curbed points out today, Bennett's lavish bayside estate is up for sale
SF News Buy Newsom's Masonic House for $2,738,000 After Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom used San Francisco to get to Sacramento, he has since ditched us for highfalutin Ross. (Yes, technically he is still a resident of Baghdad by the Bay, but.
SF News Fairmont Hotel Up for Sale The city's Fairmont hotel is being put on the market "after city officials failed to approve a proposal to convert some of the building to condos," reports Business Times. The hotel is currently
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,
