It’s an easy number to remember: $333,000. So, if you’re talking at a party or around the cooler, you can make a weighty dialectical point by stating, “Buying a home in San Francisco—house, or...
Well, it’s a dubious honor, and another first for San Francisco, city of cultural experimentation ever since the Barbary Coast days. Amazon, with its love-hate relationship with consumers, is coming...
Across the U.S. the average increase in housing pricing is about 7 percent from 2011 on to where we are now in May 2018. In San Francisco that appreciation rate is running 12 percent since 2011 and th...
If you own a home or condo in San Francisco, then its accruing market value is chugging up around the clock, kind of like a money printing machine. In fact, the upward growth of value in a San Francis...
Beer is uber popular in San Francisco, and the Bavarian tradition of combining barrel-pulled beer and hearty German food in a long-table atmosphere under a haus roof is further promulgating in SF. We ...
The Laurel Heights neighborhood is lovely, leafy and now embroiled in a battle between the Laurel Heights Improvement Association (LHIA) and developers Prado Group and SKS. The developers are wanting ...
Before discussing neighborhood values, appreciation rates and market cycles, here are 3 overview charts on the entire city market. Citywide Home Values & Trends On a 3-month-rolling basis, median...
Ah, the joy of shopping for new home goods or furniture in San Francisco. This is a city to really get into the world of maximalism or euro-chic or traditional Victorian for your home or apartment mak...
1409 Sutter Street last year was Airbnb’s most expensive listing, a real SF mansion with all the perks of ritzy living. The Airbnb listing was simultaneous with the Payne Mansion being on the market...
SoMa is unleashing another condo buying opportunity for San Franciscans, with sales starting in June 2018 for The Avery, a 118-condo tower at 420-488 Folsom Street in the Transbay area. This continues...
Hello My Favorite People! This Buzz is going to focus exclusively on why people leave San Francisco and where they are going . And especially talk about how many are really moving away. But first, l...
Since Case-Shiller Indices cover large areas – 5 counties in the SF Metro Area – which themselves contain communities and neighborhoods of widely varying home prices, the C-S chart number...
Fisherman’s Wharf is probably San Francisco’s most well known iconic location, a 30-block neighborhood that is a blast from SF’s briny past and a modern dynamo of clichéd tourism. But the retai...
Shake Shack is a burger, fries and shakes joint out of Madison Square Park in New York City with a massive following in California, and is now about to have its first diner in San Francisco. Shake Sha...
Small, stand-up electric scooters are the new transport startup craze in San Francisco, with three companies vying for the market to grab-and-go from point A to point B and drop-off. The three compani...
Wine fraud is not as infrequent as you may think. The market is now at $300 billion and by the early 2020’s will be over $400 billion. Niche markets are very expensive, which means fraud can be lucr...
It’s hard to miss the number of retail and commercial business properties that are empty and forlorn in certain areas of San Francisco’s street landscape. It’s hard real estate to sell and the e...
While rentals in San Francisco are smoothing out somewhat and heading down in many neighborhoods, the median cost of buying a house in the city has zoomed up to $1.61 million. That’s a new record fo...
Consumer confidence is still soaring, and buyers continue to push aside concerns about recent financial market volatility, federal tax law changes affecting Bay Area homeowners, and interest rate inc...
Baseball By The Bay could be a romanticized catch phrase found in a novel about a baseball-loving fan who lives in San Francisco. Because that is what we have: one of the most admired and picturesque ...
San Francisco’s own Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Millennium Tower, which is sinking and leaning at notable and lawsuit-generating rates, just had a deal close on its most expensive condo—and it’s ...
Out of recession comes recovery; recovery builds into market over-exuberance; over-exuberance leads to negative adjustment; negative adjustment sparks recession. Begin again.The scale, length and tri...
San Francisco aesthetes and especially Victorian house lovers know that one of the most beautiful, charming, and iconoclastic Victorians in the city is the 1886 Queen Anne at 2007 Franklin Street. The...
The real estate markets in the SF Bay Area are parts in an overall economic reality that includes a number of financial, demographic and psychological components – all of which are impacting each o...
Cheap and San Francisco are not words often found together, but there is relatively cheap, and that works. It turns out that rents are becoming more stable in the city, rather than the gravity-busting...
Yes, it’s beach time – at least according to the balmy, getting pretty warm and clear weather we’re having nowadays. So, you live in San Francisco, and you’re wondering what are the best coast...
That’s a question I wouldn’t normally think of: does a butler come with my monthly rental check to you? Well, down in the white hot competitive market for renters in SoMa, the new 33 Tehama Street...
The sources of the data behind the below (and many more) articles: an online survey by a PR company; an analysis of traffic on a real estate website; the alleged cost of a U-Haul to Las Vegas; anecdo...
One 2016 report that should make San Franciscans sit up or leap up in alarm is the one from the SF Port Commission stating that more than $77 billion worth of SF waterfront real estate will be under w...
Most of the charts below come from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. We have not had time to comment on each chart and what we believe its significance to be (and, in any case, we are probably u...
We’re getting some spring rains, and even the bees in San Francisco (and there are hundreds of thousands among us) are out harvesting nectar and pollen from burgeoning flower blooms on trees and pla...
San Francisco, and, indeed, the entire Bay Area includes 15 local chefs, restaurants, wine specialists and industry movers-and-shakers on the very short finalists list for the James Beard Award. The f...
The great advantage of reviewing annual data is how often the market trend lines clarify into a straightforward dynamic, instead of the constant up and down fluctuations often seen in monthly or quar...
The day could be coming where you have to pay a kind of toll to get into downtown San Francisco. That’s right. Pay to play, or drive as it were. California state representatives are looking at Bill ...
In November 2016 Uber logged a pretty stupendous number of pickups and drop offs at SFO: 469,914. That’s just in one month, and a lot of those were coming hither and thither from San Francisco. Of c...
Dogs. We love ‘em in San Francisco, with about 20,000 in our households and being walked in our parks and on our streets. And we have more dog cafés per capita then any other city. However, for hom...
A Chicago polling firm (Edelman) recently surveyed 500 residents of the Bay Area (including in San Francisco) to gauge their sentiments on local social and economic conditions. The results, as reporte...
So far in 2018, the market seems to have brushed aside any concerns about increasing home prices, rising interest rates, and new federal tax law changes. It is still very early in the year to come to...
San Francisco—the pristine, admired, storied City by the Bay—it turns out is not that pristine in certain areas. According to a study by NBC Bay Area there are 153 blocks in our fair city that are...
Since Case-Shiller Indices cover large areas – 5 counties in the SF Metro Area – which themselves contain communities and neighborhoods of widely varying home prices, the C-S chart number...
San Francisco is a big delivery-to-your-door kind of town. Hit the mobile favs dial, or use an online ordering app, tap a link to pay, and the food is soon steaming its way to you in one of a fleet of...
This may not be surprising to those of us who live in San Francisco. After all, our city holds a lot of national records, as in best in, or most of this and that. And now, according to WalletHub’s H...
If you have about $3,300 a month to spend on a rental place in SF, sf.curbed.com has put together a potpourri of offerings for that specific amount. It’s an interesting way to sample what different ...
After cooling somewhat in late 2015 and 2016, the San Francisco luxury home market bounced back in 2017 to hit new highs in the number of sales. Note: Our report online contains several dozen updated...
Very nice CGI graphics tricks enable us to have a view no San Franciscans have experienced before: the time lapse (and rotating) unfolding of tall buildings being erected through computer animation in...
The Pioneer Monument at the Civic Center is an 1894 sculpture ensemble that features as one of its multiple scenes a down-on-the-ground Native American Indian (dressed in plains tribes’ attire, not ...
There are plenty of fun things to enjoy in the city this Spring. Take a peek at these events in our Spring 2018 events guide. ...
A new report out from Paragon Real Estate makes a startling conclusion: that if you’re middle class in San Francisco, working toward buying a median-priced home in the city, then you’re going to n...
The Forbes 30 Under 30 food and drink list is pretty well appreciated by its audience and well coveted by those who make the list: recognizing young game changers and innovative thinkers in the food s...
Easy to predict this: the cost of buying a home in the Bay area went up a staggering 12% in January compared to last year’s January prices. So, if you bought a home in SF for $1 mil last year in Jan...
The California Association of Realtors recently released its Housing Affordability Index (HAI) for the 4th quarter of 2017, which measures the percentage of households that can afford to buy the medi...
The much ballyhooed, and mega price-tagged Transbay Transit Center is San Francisco’s mass transit hub to all Bay Area destinations served by the system. It will bring 11 transit systems into a cent...
Here we go with a very rare condo being put on the SF real estate market in the desirable, name-amalgamated area of the Tendernob. What is the Tendernob? Well, the area of San Francisco between Nob Hi...
In moments of introspection, pique or worry, we ask the question: What can I do to improve things in San Francisco, this city I live in? A good, meaningful question. And often we don’t exactly know ...
Our newly updated median home price maps for the entire Bay Area by city, for San Francisco by neighborhood, and then specifically for the Marin, Diablo Valley & Lamorinda, and Wine Country marke...
$65 million is all you need to buy a richly historic, castle-like building in historic San Francisco. That’s what Soho House, an upscale club and hotel company, and its developer paid for the Nation...
The world according to Yelp in 2018 includes the 25 most favored, prized restaurants in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area as defined by customer diner Yelp reviews. The list was compiled as a joi...
I am often asked how one development or another might affect SF and Bay Area real estate markets – tax law changes, interest rates, soaring stock markets, foreign buyers, migration trends, hous...
Everything is already expensive in San Francisco. Even the air is more expensive. Not really, unless its molecularly absorbing our real estate prices. But now, it looks like gas prices are heading to ...
In many ways we are a Victorian city, for all the Victorian style houses adorning many of our streets. However, Victorian is not a style of design. It’s a period of design, referring to the Victoria...