Sponsored The Historic Feusier Octagon House Is For Sale. Here Are All 3 Of SF's Eight-Sided Homes That Sold Prior All around the world architects use the octagon to beautify their buildings. The Dome of the Rock has a characteristic octagonal plan. The Tower of the Winds in Athens is another example of
Sponsored Despite The So-Called ‘SF Exodus,’ We Still Had The Highest Concentration of Expensive Real Estate in the U.S. Last Year As national publications, local news pundits, and other talking heads around the country decried the death of California throughout the pandemic, eleven of San Francisco's 51 zip codes made their way onto a new list of the most expensive home values in the country for 2020.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Has Bought Another 600 Acres on Kauai, and Hawaiians Are Pissed Adding to their already significant land holdings on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan recently closed on another deal adding 600 more acres on the island.
SF News New Boutique Hotel The Alton Readies for Opening in Old Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf (With New Restaurant on the Way) Fisherman's Wharf is gaining a new boutique hotel managed by the Kimpton group, in one half of what was formerly a Holiday Inn at 495 Beach Street.
Business & Tech The State of Rental Real Estate in SF: Ziprent And The Rent Decline Reversal As is the case in cities across the rest of the Bay Area, the number of people renting in San Francisco tends to exceed the number of people who own their homes, with
Business & Tech SF No Longer the Top City for Tech Industry Office Space Leasing, Knocked Down Several Notches San Francisco is now No. 6 in an annual study where we'd perennially ranked No. 1, as we fall from the top five in terms of how much office space the tech industry is leasing here.
SF News Stonestown Galleria Parking Lots Could Become 2,900-Unit Residential Village The owner of the Stonestown Galleria mall property has been conducting workshops with nearby neighborhoods to discuss a future development that could create a new neighborhood out of what is now just 30 acres of surface parking lots.
SF News Mid-Market Condo/Hotel Project Delayed; Hotel and Restaurant Won't Open Until 2022 The 408,000-square-foot development at 950-974 Market Street, which began construction in 2018 and was slated to be completed this year, is delayed — in part because of the pandemic and the state of tourism.
Business & Tech Dropbox Headquarters Sells for More Than $1 Billion, In SF’s Second Largest Ever Real Estate Deal In an encouraging sign for the office real estate amidst the ‘everyone's working from home forever’ craze, the four-building Mission Bay complex known as the Exchange has sold for $1.08 billion.
SF News Op-Ed: San Francisco Needs to Follow Berkeley's Lead and Get Rid of Single-Family Zoning The largely racist legacy of single-family zoning took a blow this week when Berkeley's city council voted unanimously to make moves to change its general plan. In housing-starved San Francisco, we are decades late in facing the fact that we live in a city that was developed half as a suburb.
SF News 'Below Market Rate' Housing Units In San Francisco Found to Be Above Market Rate Right Now With apartments going for bargain prices around San Francisco in what will likely be a short-term dip in the rental market, so-called below-market-rate (BMR) housing is tied to other metrics, and renters can find better deals in the open the market right now.
SF News While Rents Slid Last Year In SF, Ritzy Zip Codes Saw 46% Bump In Luxury Home Sales The wealthy have largely not suffered in the pandemic, and if anything, the Bay Area wealthy just opted to upgrade their manses or hunker down further in cloistered, expensive homes.
SF News McMansion Plans Unveiled for Wildly Expensive Dolores Heights Teardown A long-vacant Dolores Heights fixer-upper two blocks from Zuckerberg’s house, and one block from the celebrated Tom and Jerry House, has submitted plans to tear the place down and erect an ultramodern mansion.
Arts & Entertainment Huge Russian Hill Spec House Sells for $27M — 40% Below Original Asking Price of $45M We're learning that a large gated compound on Lombard Street in Russian Hill that was originally listed for $45 million in 2018 and subsequently reduced ended up quietly changing hands earlier this year for $27 million.
Business & Tech Amazon Buys Recology Site in SF for $200 Million, Scuttles Plan to Make it Housing Recology just sold its 900 7th Street waste maintenance facility to Amazon, who plan to make it a six-acre delivery warehouse facility in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Winona Ryder Sells Union Street Home She Bought In 1995 Actress Winona Ryder is selling a San Francisco home that many San Franciscans likely didn't know she owned — since she bought it at the height of her fame in the mid-1990s and isn't often spotted around town these days.
SF News SF’s ‘Trump Tower’ Taken Off The Market, Denying Trump Big Payday The 555 California Street building, which the Trump family co-owns, is no longer for sale, and Trump can’t be happy that he won’t get his $1.5 billion payout anytime soon.
Arts & Entertainment Mondrian House at Ocean Beach Repainted By People With No Style A landmark home in San Francisco — made so solely because of a creative paint job inspired by the work of Piet Mondrian — has become just another drab house in a row of similar houses, because its new owners clearly didn't appreciate what they had and prefer a life of conformist banality.
SF News SF Taxpayers On the Hook For $30 Million to Shore Up the Sinking Millennium Tower Alas, a new detail has emerged in the as-yet-not-fully-disclosed settlement of multiple lawsuits related to the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower in downtown San Francisco, and it's the fact that SF taxpayers will be footing a piece of the overall bill.
SF News Number of Properties For Sale In SF Nearing Two-Decade High; Condos and Single-Family Homes See Price Drops In the history of San Francisco real estate, the lows never drop too low or last too long. Will this time be different?
SF News Looking For an Apartment In San Francisco? Ask For a Lot Because Landlords Are Desperate Three months free rent? No problem. Free Peloton bike? Totally on the table. Prospective tenants are getting all kinds of concessions as SF rents fall 20-percent year over year.
SF News More Than Half of People Leaving SF Say They'll Probably Come Back, In Small Chronicle Sampling It's hard to say just how transformational the current exodus of people from SF is going to be in the long run, or even how large it is compared to a normal September. But it's happening, and some are saying they'll be back.
SF News Latest Development Proposal for Piers 30-32 and Navigation Center Lot Includes 850 Housing Units, Floating Pool Brace yourselves for a new fight over a waterfront development site as the Port of San Francisco looks to be selecting a development proposal for Piers 30-32 — a.k.a. the piers that the Warriors almost built their arena on before being shouted down to Mission Bay back in 2014.
Arts & Entertainment Two-Year-Old, Six-Bedroom Home Atop Mount Sutro Asks $22 Million A teardown-and-rebuild project in Clarendon Heights that dates back to 2012, with the completed house now just two years old, has just hit the market for an eye-popping $22 million.
SF News Nextdoor Founder High-Tails It Out Of SF Putting Pac Heights Manse Up For $25M A co-founder of Nextdoor, the social platform that brought out the racism and pettiness you always knew was likely surrounding you among neighbors but now have proof of, has decided to leave San Francisco with his family to spend some time in Italy.
