SF News SF Home Prices Cooling Down After Hitting Pandemic Highs San Francisco bucked logic and saw its home prices increase during COVID-19, peaking to a record a year ago this time. But the high price of San Francisco houses is starting to come down.
SF News Luxury Condo In Converted Christian Science Church on Dolores Park Sells For $2.1M Under Its 2017 Sale Price The Light House condominiums — the four units that were carved out inside of the domed former Second Church of Christ, Scientist on Dolores Park — have been a thing of fascination for everyone who's looked at the building from the park and heard about its conversion almost a decade ago.
Real Estate Famous Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Della Walker House In Carmel Sells for $22 Million The single-story house was originally only 1,200 square feet and was built for $125,000 for Carmel resident Della Walker in 1952.
housing market Average Home in Bay Area Actually Selling for Less than Asking Price, Data Shows For the first time in a decade, the Bay Area’s tight housing market might be loosening up a little, but it's still not exactly affordable.
SF News NoPa Home Featured on ‘Hoarders’ Sells For $500K Over Asking, Despite Atrocious Conditions A Lyon Street house that made for a very depressing segment on A&E’s ‘Hoarders’ just sold for $1.2 million ($500,000 over its asking price), even though it still very much looked and smelled like a house that had been featured on ‘Hoarders.’
Business & Tech There Are Currently 15 Salesforce Towers Worth of Empty Offices In San Francisco You've been hearing for over a year from the businesses downtown that used to host busy lunch crowds and happy hour hordes that the area is a ghost town most days. But it's not just because the companies that are still there are letting everyone work from home.
SF News Tennis Enthusiasts Serve a Lawsuit To Block Sale of SoMa Property That Had Promised Them Tennis Courts A real estate conglomerate is trying to unload an unfinished property where they’d agreed to rebuild a tennis club they’d previously razed. Now a local tennis group is saying, ‘We’ll see you in court.’
SF News Huge New Housing Development With 45% Affordable Units Approved for Former Transit Hub Site In SoMa The block-sized property in SoMa that became home to the temporary Transbay Transit Center in the last decade will become a three-tower complex with the tallest tower around 40 stories.
SF News Bay Area Home Prices Actually Dropping; Cities Here Dominate the ‘Fastest-Cooling Housing Markets’ List Realtors are popping a little less Champagne, and buyers are no longer offering hundreds of thousands over asking price, as home prices are dropping notably in SF, Oakland, and especially San Jose.
Business & Tech 40-Story Tower at the Foot of Van Ness Goes Before Planning for Reapproval as Rental Apartments Days before its entitlements are set to expire, a very tall proposed residential tower at Van Ness and Market is headed before the Planning Commission this week, now as a significantly larger, all-rental property.
SF News Flooded SoMa High-Rise Tenants Say They Had Hotel Rooms Revoked, Now Forced to Fend for Themselves SFist has exclusive pictures and video from inside the flooding of apartment tower 33 Tehama, but more troublingly, emails showing that several tenants’ temporary hotel accommodations have already been rescinded.
Arts & Entertainment Penthouse Condos In Russian Hill Eichler Tower Owned By Wilsey, Shultzes to Hit Market for $29M A pair of truly unique, top-of-the-world, master-of-the-universe-type properties sitting at one of the highest points in San Francisco are about to come on the market. And they're in a storied tower that has been home to San Francisco's wealthy for decades.
SF Politics Peskin Seeks to Expand Rent Control to New Construction In SF Via Charter Amendment The SF Board of Supervisors will be seeing two proposed amendments to the city charter introduced at their Tuesday meeting, both of which set up fights between the progressive bloc of supervisors and Mayor London Breed over housing.
SF News Former Country-Western Gay Bar Property In SoMa Back on Market A building that housed a longtime gay bar devoted to country music in SF's SoMa District, which was proposed for redevelopment as both a nightclub and a condo building going back a decade, has hit the market again at a reduced price.
SF News One of the Painted Ladies That Changed Hands Two Years Ago Is Back on the Market One of San Francisco’s famous Seven Sisters is back on the market. Leah Culver, the current owner, bought the Victorian house in 2020 for $3.55 million and she’s now listing it for the same price.
SF News The Former Sea Cliff Manse of Sharon Stone and Phil Bronstein Hits the Market for $39M Known to be the oldest home in Sea Cliff, overlooking Baker Beach, the seven-bedroom mansion once occupied by former SF power couple Sharon Stone and Phil Bronstein has just hit the market for the first time since they sold it in 2005.
Arts & Entertainment 'Full House' House Gets Fraudulently Listed For $37M, Local Broadcaster Mistakes It As Real A clearly laughable listing went live on Zillow sometime yesterday or today, showing the famed Full House house on Broderick Street for sale for $37 million — a cool $32 million over what it sold for last year. But the funniest part is that somebody at ABC 7 mistook this as legit.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: New Half-Million-Dollar Studios Have Beds That Drop From Ceilings Well, the owners and marketers of the new Serif condos on mid-Market have come up with a novel solution for the smallness of their studio units: optional furniture add-ons that include mechanical beds that rise up and stow themselves away on the ceiling.
Arts & Entertainment Betty White's Carmel Vacation Home Hits Market For $8M A Monterey County vacation home with sweeping ocean views that the late Betty White built with her husband Allen Ludden in the late 1970s has just hit the market for the first time, listed for $7.9 million.
SF News Famed LGBT Rights Icon Cleve Jones Facing Displacement After New Building Owner Doubles Rent It's a tale at least as old as the first dot-com boom in SF, as elderly renters face displacement or eviction due to the real estate pressures that make rent control precarious. And now one of the Castro's elder statesmen has fallen victim as well.
Bay Area Sports Buster Posey Sells Lafayette Property, East Bay Realtors Get Him Nearly $10 Million — 'Custom' Treehouse Included Posey and his wife just sold their mansion in the Happy Valley neighborhood of Lafayette
SF News Gen Z Moving To San Francisco More Than Any Other Group People in the Gen Z age group moved to San Francisco more than any other city in the United States last year.
SF Politics Former SF Supervisor Jane Kim Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Lobbying Against Controversial SoMa High Rise That 27-story residential tower slated for a Nordstom’s parking lot, which the supervisors shot down last October, has now generated a complaint with the SF Ethics Commission that the district’s former supervisor Jane Kim improperly lobbied against it.
SF News Report: 40% of SF Houses are Selling for $100K Over Asking Price Homes are selling for $100,000 or more over the asking price all over the Bay Area, as 40% of sales in SF and nearly 50% of San Jose homes are going for six figures over asking.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Asking Rents Tick Up, SF Apartment Listings Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels An Oakland suspect in an allegedly stolen van died in a fire following a police helicopter pursuit, a former UFC champ is charged with attempted murder in the South Bay, and asking rents continue to tick up in SF as the number of apartment listings returns to pre-pandemic levels.
