SF News Naive Engineer Hopes To Move To Excellent, Crime-Free Bay Area Neighborhood For $1200/Month None of us should be laughing at such things, because obviously if we lived pretty much anywhere else the country besides Manhattan this poor guy's requests would seem perfectly sane and reasonable. But
SF News Median One-Bedroom Rent In S.F. Is Now $3,200 The "real estate is crazy" angle is getting tired, I know. And remember how a few months ago we were saying, "Oh, maybe there's no real reason to panic about rents?" Well, we're
SF News A**hole Exchange Students Leave Home Littered In Booze Bottles, Panties [Updated] “I was doing it to be nice,” Ritu Vohra told Christin Ayers of KPIX5, after she rented her Sunset District home to a collection of Irish foreign exchange students. Having once been a
SF News Landlord Once Again Intimidating, Evicting 1049 Market Tenants Landlord John Gall appears to be doing an end-run in order to empty his property at 1049 Market Street of all its tenants, despite there being dozens of legal, occupied residential units and
Arts & Entertainment Local Photographer Lampoons SF Rental Market Photographer Scott Hampton is parodying the ridiculous housing market situation we're in with a humorous photo essay he calls SF: For Rent. He even put one of them on Craigslist, and it's still
SF News Art Agnos: 'It's All But Over For The Poor In This City' We've said it several times, and now progressive former mayor Art Agnos chimes in for NPR in a national story about how shitty San Francisco's real estate market now is for the middle
SF News Slight Good News: Rents Not Rising So Fast This Year After San Francisco has been decrying the outrageous sums that landlords are now commanding for rental units over the past two years, things finally seem to be simmering down. According to new rental
Arts & Entertainment America's Cup Rental Market Makes Us Seasick Boats! These sea-faring doodads are popular with some people, no? Sources tell us that sailing enthusiasts will be flocking to town come summer for the culmination of the American's Cup contest that's been
SF News Renters And TIC Owners Pitted Against Each Other In Current Real Estate Climate We are back, once again, to dot-com-boom levels of Ellis Act evictions, begging the question of whether rent control really exists in any real way. And is there a way to protect longtime
SF News All Together Now: The S.F. Rental Market Is Insane It's time for your semi-monthly reminder that the apartment rental market has become completely, demoralizingly, grotesquely expensive and competitive. KQED just published this piece by Sam Harnett who relays a first-person tale of
SF News Mid-Market Redevelopment Plows On As Trinity Plaza Marks Halfway Point The second of four apartment towers in the massive Trinity Place complex was "topped off" this week, marking a major milestone in one of the key projects in that redevelopment of mid-Market you've
Arts & Entertainment A Look at What $6,500/Month Will Get You In SoMa/South Beach SFGate's On the Block blog is once again flipping their lids over rising rents around town, and they highlight some of the more egregious examples in what we'd call the rip-off department. Take,
SF News Supervisors to Consider Allowing Even Tinier Micro-Apartments At tomorrow's Board of Supervisors meeting there's a proposal on the docket to change the city's building code to allow for the tiniest dwelling spaces in the country. The new micro-condos/mini-apartments would
