SF News SFist checks out the 510: The Vibrant Economy Edition See "East Bay: More Affordable, But Only Compared to Its Neighbors" (January 18, 2006) and "California's East Bay Area Offers Relative Bargains" (January 19, 2006). SFist is always interested to read about bargains
SF News Neither a Buyer Nor a Renter Be One of our sources is RealFacts. The research firm specializes in data on multifamily housing, and they send out a regular newsletter. Today's includes the following interesting comments made by its president, Sarah
misc Housing Bubbles: <strike>Bush</strike> Mission v. Gore Well, if those gloomy housing forecasts weren't enough, it's now official, folks -- the San Francisco real estate bubble has burst. "Kiss of Death" Al Gore has bought a house here. Al and
misc Housing Bubbles: Luck Of The Draw Shirley Jackson, put down that rock! At 7:30 a.m. yesterday, the SF Redevelopment Agency hosted a low-income housing lottery that attracted over 4300 applicants. The SF Redevelopment Agency, along with Centurion
misc For Sale on eBay: Fake Island Seriously, at the current high bid of $222,322, this thing is a steal for any San Franciscan. When was the last time you saw anything in The City at that price? It
SF News We're Number Two! Man, New York wins everything! According to a study by Runzheimer International and reported on today by CNN, San Francisco is the second-most expensive place to live in the US, second only to
misc Housing Bubbles: Pop Goes The Market and the Market Goes Pop It's time for our monthly housing market speculation fest, as the real estate housing numbers come in for September. Like 'NSYNC sez, it's dirty pop! (Out of charity for you, we won't do
misc Housing Bubbles: The August Numbers If only you buy a house on Pacific Avenue for $300 like Monopoly! The August real estate numbers for the Bay Area are in and boy, it doesn't look good for anyone. For
SF News Kepler's Update SFist Mary-Lynn's on vacation, but we're sure she'll be thrilled to hear that the white knights of Menlo Park may actually be coming to the rescue of beloved independent bookstore Kepler's! A group
SF News Vote for Nguyen San Jose voters will be putting the first Vietnamese-American woman into a city council in California today -- who will be named Nguyen. You're either reading a column by the Great Karnak --
SF News Who Said Being Governor was Going to be Easy? Supporters of the measure claim that the ruling is merely nothing but politics as usual and the political establishment sticking it to noble reformers. They also said that the changes-- a few rewritten
SF News Political Junkie: Meet The Assessor We're so excited! We've never actually someone we've written about in the Political Junkie column before! Usual Suspects is reporting that 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place is abuzzzzzzzz with the word that
misc Housing Bubbles: The Market Is Falling! Panic in the streets of San Francisco! Further adding to housing hysteria, the Chron prominently fronts an article reporting that the housing market is going to crash some time next year. Set your
SF News Mo' Money, Mo' Problems Let's start off with the extra money for the city budget. Thanks to the super-hot real estate market, the city found an extra $43 million to help plug the $102 million dollar debt
SF News For Sale: Castle In Hunters Point You read that headline right. The Albion Castle, a structure which dates to 1870 and was a brewery right up until prohibition, is being put on the market by it's owner in a
misc Re-Assessed Breaking news: Mabel Teng has resigned as the San Francisco assessor. After a sunny start as the face of gay marriage, Teng was facing increasing scrutiny over her, um, unorthodox hiring procedures in
SF News Dogster Nominated For Webby In the interest of full disclosure, SFist Ted, our new weatherman, also happens to be Dogster Ted. And while we've harshed on the Webby Awards only just recently, we're still proud. You can
Arts & Entertainment This Octavia House Duboce Street's loss is Hayes Valley's gain, as the City and Caltrans laboriously rebuild the Central Expressway offramp one block over from where they laboriously tore it down, but leave Octavia to become
Arts & Entertainment Dredging up the Past with the Essefficist Welcome back to the wonderful world of the Essefficist, where no amount of steroids could possibly help us answer your questions any better than we already do. But could help us answer your
SF News The Battle for the Golden State Northern California and Southern California are locked in battle. It's not over the quality of coffee, the issue of transportation, of taxes or water or real estate or celebrity sightings. It's a battle
misc Housing Bubbles: What Am I Bid? Buying a house is even worse than buying something on ebay -- you promise to pay people you've never met some exorbitant amount of money that you clearly don't have, you write a
misc Bird? Plane? Billboard. SFist just has to say that if you want to propose to us, we don't really like grand gestures like getting down on one knee on the Jumbotron, or on live TV. We
misc Ugly Buildings The Chron today does a feature on the biggest architectural eyesores in San Francisco. The writer of the article focuses his ire on the Marriott Hotel across the street from the Metreon, saying
misc Housing Bubbles: Monkey Knife Fight Oh, boo frickin' hoo. The Examiner today profiles an angry yuppie living across from the ballpark who says that a piece of graffiti is ruining his "million-dollar view." The disgruntled homeowner paid $850,
