SF News Report: Ellis Act Filings Up 36% As Evictions Hit Six-Year High Evictions are up for the sixth year in a row according to a recently released report from the San Francisco Rent Board. At 2,134, the total number filed between March 1, 2015
SF News San Francisco Metro Area Population Grew By 60,000 Last Year It's been said often enough that San Francisco has been in the midst of a population boom the likes of which it hasn't seen in decades, something to the tune of 10,000
SF News One-Bedroom Rents Basically Flat Since Last Year, According To New Map What a fun map! Last June, real estate website startup Zumper put median one-bedroom rents in San Francisco at $3,500, which was up from $3,200 in 2014. Now they're at $3,
SF News Single Unit In Former Church By Dolores Park Hits Rental Market For $28,000/Month Remember those renderings we showed you last month of The Light House, the converted and luxuriously renovated former Second Church of Christ Scientist that has long laid vacant and condemned next to Dolores
SF News Two Sunset Families May Lose Their Apartments Due To Shady Landlord Tactic Two separate groups of Sunset renters are at risk of losing their apartments after what appear to be some shady moves by the building's new owner. One of the renters has filed an
SF News $30K/Month Penthouse Still On Market, And Here's A Better Look Inside New York has for a long time had monthly rental rates that crossed into five figures for some well located, higher-end apartments in Manhattan, but such things are still pretty new to San
SF News Listing For $500-A-Month Crawl Space Is Real, And People Want To Rent It Look, we get it: There are a lot of people in the Bay Area who really, really need a place to live. There are equally a lot of people attempting to capitalize on
SF News Most SF All-Cash Home Buyers Are 'Older Affluent People,' Not Techies “We are finding all over the country that all-cash buyers are older affluent people," says John Burns of John Burns Real Estate Consulting in the Business Times, regarding new research his firm conducted
SF News Yes, There Is A 3-Bedroom In San Francisco Listing for $30k A Month San Francisco's crazy rental market got you down? Need a little lift? A little pep? Something light-heartened to raise your spirits? Well, you've come to the wrong place. With that being said, we
SF News Another Day, Another Story Of A Tech Worker Living Out Of A Truck I could save this for Apartment Sadness, but at this point, it's old hat! Business Insider catches up with yet another young employee at Google who's continuing the grand tradition of willful homelessness,
SF News Craigslist Guy Wants to Pay You To Respond To Apartment Ads For Him Finding an apartment on Craigslist is hard work, all the harder in a tight market. The endless emails that never seem to get returned, the weird phone calls, the showing up to a
SF News Local Software Engineer Lives In A Van Because She's Too Frugal To Pay High Rent An employed tech worker who recently moved to the Bay Area decided that rents were too high and her housing options were on the lower end of the spectrum were too depressing, so
SF News Marin Headlands Home With Killer View, In National Park, $6500+/Mo Are you paying to live in San Francisco but craving a more rustic life still within striking distance of that downtown office? Do you have a yen for landscape painting? Then look no
SF News Report: Flood Of Venture Capital Funding Is To Blame For High Rents San Francisco rent is sky-high. San Francisco also receives gobs of the nation's share of venture capital dollars. Coincidence? Zumper, itself a venture-backed real estate website aimed at apartment seekers and renters, thinks
SF News Adding Roommates Made Easier, Evictions Made Harder After Board Of Supervisors Vote The Board of Supervisors took an extra step in tenant protections at Tuesday's meeting, voting to approve new legislation that makes it more difficult for landlords to evict tenants for minor violations, or
SF News John King On New Luxury Downtown Apartments: 'This Isn’t The San Francisco That Most Of Us Know' Architecture and urban design critic John King has penned his official thoughts on The Jasper, that 40-story tower on Rincon Hill that's just opening up for renters, and he sounds sort of disturbed.
SF News If You've Got $3,000 A Month To Spend On A Studio, There Are Now Hundreds To Choose From All those construction cranes you've seen across the city the past couple of years are finally resulting in a ton of new housing, however it's still not enough to satisfy demand and it's
SF News Once Again, Someone Blames Progressives For The Housing Crisis If you live in San Francisco, or if you've lived here in the last few years, you've participated in this debate 100 times already. Why do we have an affordability crisis? Because we
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Mission SRO For Just $1300 A Month This week's featured housing option it can't exactly be called an apartment is a single-room occupancy residential hotel smack in the heart of the Mission which has been advertising its rooms on Craigslist
SF News It Looks Like We Will Be Voting On Changing The 'Airbnb Law' In November Opponents of SF's short-term rental ordinance, dubbed the 'Airbnb Law,' that was passed by the Board of Supervisors last October, have succeeded in gathering almost 16,000 signatures to get a proposition
SF News One Rincon Hill North Tower Expected To Sell For $400 Million Then Convert To Condos One Rincon Hill's north tower isn't just an apartment building. It's a record-setting apartment building lifestyle. Its height? Nearly incomparable in the Bay Area. Its beauty? Unparalleled. Its glory? Unfathomable. To put a
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Live With A Lot Of Rules, And 'Not Forever,' With Noe Valley Couple For $2200/Mo I'm bringing you a pre-holiday bit of Apartment Sadness prior to tomorrow's day off, just so you can get it over with, wipe away the tears, and get on with celebrating America. Today's
SF News Much Like The Nema, Apartments At The Jasper Are Wildly Expensive The new sister building to the now notorious Nema, dubbed The Jasper, is nearing completion and has now put its unit floorplans and rental rates on its website. The 40-story tower, as Curbed
SF News Stop Saying That SF's Median Rent Is $4225 Yes, we know that the rental market in SF is crazy, but figures about what the actual median rent is here have been widely exaggerated, misunderstood, and irresponsibly quoted quite often over the
SF News Study: Airbnb 'Commercial Hosts' Definitely Keeping Long-Term Rental Units Off the Market A lot gets said about Airbnb in relation to average moms and pops and everygal/guys who are renting rooms to tourists for a little extra cash, or renting their apartments while they're
