SF News Asking Rents In SF Ticked Up This Year, But They're Still Well Below Pre-Pandemic Levels Renting an apartment in San Francisco remains slightly more affordable than it was three years ago, and a good bit cheaper than the high-water mark of 2015, but prices are on the rise.
SF News San Francisco Now the Only Major Metro Area In the U.S. Where Rents Are Still Below Pre-Pandemic Levels Yeah, wow. Even though the city is far from the ghost town it was in the summer/fall of 2020, San Francisco is now the only one of 52 metro areas in the country with 1 million+ people where rents remain below March 2020 levels.
SF News Once Again, Data Shows Pandemic Exodus Has Swung the Other Way and Everyone's Moving Back to SF Postal service data shows net migration out of the city is back to pre-pandemic levels, but a lot of people are still moving around.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rents In SF Likely to Be Back Where They Were By Year-End Rents in San Francisco have regained about half the ground they lost last year, Bank of America is in trouble in federal court over its handling of EDD card fraud, and the SFPD is seeking help finding a missing 84-year-old woman who disappeared in the Richmond District.
SF News San Franciscans Continue Leaving for More 'Comfortable Lives' Elsewhere as Rental Prices Plunge A recent real estate report showed one-bedroom rent prices in SF have fallen 11.8 percent — eclipsing last month's record-breaking 9 percent drop — as more locals pack their bags. We decided to catch up with a few of them to ask why they're leaving (or have already left) the City by the Bay.
SF News Report: SF Rents Are Probably Never Going To Drop With the news that rents in San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland all went down last month, many of us briefly allowed a previously forbidden thought to flicker across our minds: Could the
SF News SF, Oakland, And San Jose Rents All Went Down Last Month Three of the costliest rental markets in the nation — San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose — were all in decline last month according to analysis from Zumper, on whom we have come to rely
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 Rents May Go Down For Apartments and Offices According To New Report According to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) based on responses from real estate investors, coupled with data from commercial real estate brokerages, we can expect a slowdown in rental growth in office and
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Abandoning Housing For A Tent Well, for this edition of Apartment Sadness, I bring you not another Craigslist ad for a ridiculously sad living space, but a tale of sadness from a "full-time employed programmer" on Reddit who
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Rent A $1500 Closet In A House Shared By 60 People Wow. So, this room in SoMa just popped up on Craigslist in a "co-ed community house" which, if I had to guess, has a A LOT of turnover. Why do I say that?
SF News Open-Minded Straight Guy Sought For Cheap Dom-Sub Living Situation In Noe Putting the "sub" in "sublet," a man recently posted to Craigslist about an "ideal living situation for [a] dominant, open-minded/selfish str8 guy!" Sure, in this market, $650 a month for a room
SF News Rents In The Mission Went Up 20 Percent This Year My wish for 2015 is that we won't all spend whole minutes of every single day bemoaning the latest horrifying figures about the SF rental market, but perhaps the only way that wish
SF News How Much Should You Get Paid If Your Landlord Wants To Buy You Out Of Your Rent-Controlled Apartment? There has been a notable increase in the last year or so probably among your friends in rent-controlled apartments, but also among people seeking counseling from the Tenants' Union of buyout offers by
SF News Tiny Coastal Town, Pop. 18, Sold To San Luis Obispo Couple There's a wee little town along Highway 1 called Harmony, about six miles south of Cambria, that's home to several artisans and has always been owned by a single family. The downtown is
SF News Jane Kim Proposing 30% Affordable Housing In New Developments Supervisor Jane Kim, while open to compromises, is proposing that the city mandate a threshold of 30% below-market-rate housing in all new developments starting next year. The proposal, which we first heard about
SF News TechCrunch Writer Has Another Solution To Our Housing Crisis TechCrunch writer Kim-Mai Cutler, who was responsible for the widely shared April piece "How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained)," is back with a new piece that's
SF News Two Tech Billionaires Have Shouting Match About Housing Crisis, Ed Lee At Bloomberg's Next Big Thing conference in Sausalito today, local billionaires Ron Conway and Chamath Palihapitiya got into a shouting match about how to solve San Francisco's housing crisis, and whether Mayor Ed
SF News Ellis Act Evictions Will Now Cost Landlords A Whole Lot More, Thanks To David Campos The Board of Supervisors last night passed some new legislation, originally proposed by David Campos, that's going to make evicting a tenant under the Ellis Act way more expensive than it previously was.
SF News Tenants At 1049 Market Win Again, Eviction Notices Revoked The saga of 1049 Market Street continues this week as those new eviction notices we discussed a few weeks ago have been revoked by the landlord, clearly under pressure from the city. Lawyers
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
Arts & Entertainment Wet Underwear Contest Roommate Search Returns! Remember this? It looks like that same group of slutty gays in the Tenderloin with that $400 room for rent have some high turnover, and they were back on Craigslist as of last
SF News Map Suggests That SF Rents Aren't As Crazy As You Think We've all read the reports: San Francisco's rents are rising impossibly quickly, people can't afford to live in San Francisco anymore, and if you lose your apartment, you may never find another one.
SF News 33 Percent Of San Franciscans Think S.F. Is Getting Worse, Says Dubious Poll According to the annual CityBeat poll conducted by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, a full third of San Franciscans think the quality of life in the city is on the decline. The
SF News Is The Castro Really Turning Straight? "Mark my words: In 10 years, the Castro will be predominantly straight," rallies local activist Tommi Avicolli Mecca in a recent op-ed for The Bay Times. Is he right? Is the Castro heading
