SF News Decorator Showcase House Was Once Owned By CNet Founder, Later Became 'Thug Mansion' For Squatter Art Thief The grand Presidio Heights home at 3800 Washington Street that is currently serving as this year's venue for the Decorator's Showcase has some colorful recent history prior to its latest renovation.
SF News Skinny 25-Story 'Micro Guestroom' Hotel Planned For SoMa Site San Diego-based J Street Hospitality is looking to build a 185-room, 25-story hotel on a small parcel at 36 Tehama Street.
SF News Internet Blasts Realtor Who Discovered 'House Hacking' (i.e., Being A Landlord) What do you call someone who owns property and rents it out to other folks? If you guessed "landlord," you're wrong and behind the times, pal. According to Oakland realtor Joe Dickerson's Facebook
SF News Feinstein Goes To Bat For Presidio Terrace Residents Whose Street Got Sold The incredibly uplifting and fabulous story of megabucks Presidio Terrace homeowners getting their street sold from them because they hadn’t paid a common property tax in 30 years has drawn the interest
SF News Yet Another SF Teardown, Gutted By Fire, Hits Market For $800K As we know, there's a buyer for pretty much any property in San Francisco, no matter the condition, no matter if it was gutted by fire or simply ravaged by time and neglect.
SF News 'Overvalued' SF Faces Largest Risk Of Housing Bubble Burst In America Confirming what you may already know, the Union Bank of Switzerland published a report saying that San Francisco is "the most overvalued US urban housing market" out of all regions included in a
SF News Google Battles City Of Mountain View Over Housing Development Plan Google may be throwing a bit of a wrench into the city of Mountain View's plans to expand housing as they ask to modify an already agreed-upon deal to make more room for
SF News Childhood Fave Jeffrey's Toys Set To Make A Return To San Francisco Jeffrey's Toys is set to make a return to San Francisco, two years after it closed its shop on Market Street. Hoodline reports that they're moving into a location at 45 Kearny Street
Arts & Entertainment House Sadness: Inside A $1.4 Million Tear-Down In SF Way down at the southwestern corner of the city, just a hop from Daly City BART, sits this prize: 89 Belle Avenue. As Curbed explains, the three-unit property was gutted by a fire
SF News Facebook Finally Comes To SF, Leases Entire Office Portion Of 181 Fremont It's confirmed! We reported the rumor in June, denied by Facebook at the time, that the social media giant was in talks with real estate brokers to lease a large amount of office
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Half-Constructed Loft In Outer Sunset, $1600/Mo If you're looking for an apartment deal in San Francisco, especially out in the Avenues, you are likely to stumble across more than one half-baked in-law unit or half-finished basement that might be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Druggy Haight & Stanyan McDonald's To Be Purchased By City, Redeveloped As Housing The McDonald's at the end of Haight Street at Stanyan is not long for this world as the city has just about inked a deal to purchase the problematic property for redevelopment as
SF News Wealthy Presidio Terrace Residents Hire Lobbyists To Pressure Supes To Rescind Street Sale The San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week voted to hold a November hearing on the issue of the contested sale of a privately owned street to real estate investors who are, seemingly,
Arts & Entertainment Glen Park's Massive, Kooky Chenery House Hits Market For $12.5 Million Speak of the devil! Just this week we were revisiting retired advertising executive Bob Pritikin's Glen Park mansion known as Chenery House, via this post about the owner of Haight Street shop Loved
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finally: Long Vacant Noe Valley Real Food To Be Sold, Redeveloped As Housing A papered-over storefront that has sat dark on 24th Street in Noe Valley for the last 14 years is finally on the market and could potentially be redeveloped as housing. The Chronicle reported
SF News Uber Ditches Much Publicized Plan For Oakland HQ Two years ago, Uber delighted Oakland commercial real estate brokers with the news that they had bought the former Sears department store property at Broadway and 19th Street with plans to have a
SF News Dolores Park 'Light House' Domed Church Could Be Yours For A Cool $6.7 Million You will all recognize the domed former church right across from Dolores Park at 20th Street, and many of you remember that it was converted into luxury condos in early 2016 where oh
SF News Asking Rents In San Francisco Are Down About Two Percent Over Last Year They say that rents, on average, really never go down much in SF, they just plateau. And while many have sensed that we've reached such a plateau over the last two years, thanks
SF News SF Art Dealer Selling Non-Existent Tiburon Home For $35 Million Art dealer and real estate developer Serge Sorokko, or as he should be known, model, writer and Russian goddess Tatiana Sorokko's husband, hopes to sell a prospective house in Tiburon for a whopping
Arts & Entertainment House Used For MTV's Original SF 'Real World' Season Hits Market For $7M The Russian Hill house that was home to seven strangers getting "real" on MTV in 1994, also known as 949-953 Lombard Street, is hitting the market again at the eye-popping price of $7
SF News Noted 'Castro Drug Den' Sold To New Owner Prospective San Francisco home buyers are generally more attracted to phrases like “Wonderful Victorian home in amazing Dolores Heights location” than, say “Notorious Castro Drug Den” or “persistent neighborhood nuisance.” But both turns
SF News Mayor And Board Of Supervisors Actually Signed Off On Sale Of Presidio Terrace It may have been buried in a dozen and a half pages of other properties being auctioned off by the city tax collector, but the both mayor and the SF Board of Supervisors
SF News Presidio Terrace Homeowners Have Lost Track Of A Common Property Tax Bill Before The tale of the Presidio Terrace homeowners' street and sidewalks being bought out from under them and held hostage by a couple of savvy, arguably opportunistic real estate investors who bought the cul
SF News Texas Firm Finds It Cheaper To Commute To Silicon Valley By Private Jet Than To Operate There Lawyers from the Houston-based intellectual property firm of Patterson and Sheridan want the big-money tech clients of Silicon Valley but not the big-money price tags of Bay Area real estate and salary expectations.
