With its checkered, colorful, even literary history, the Tenderloin remains one of San Francisco’s most interesting neighborhoods. With 80% of its 15,800 apartments locked in at below market rents o...
Here we are a day after summer solstice with some blistering hot summer weather a few days behind us, and contemplating all the things to do in our beautiful, bountiful city. The choices in SF are lik...
Are we heading to be the most expensive city on the planet for garbage rates? Like we already are for most expensive rents in the world. No, SF is not that expensive for garbage pickup. However, next ...
39 Reed Street, San Francisco 1 Bed 1 Bath Offered at $599,000 This picture perfect Nob Hill abode delivers dazzling views along with the classic San Francisco lifestyle that will make you the envy of...
1155 Leavenworth Street, San Francisco Studio 1 Bath Sold for $422,500 A quintessential San Francisco experience awaits you at 1155 Leavenworth, where this vintage studio offers simplified living in a...
On July 1st 2017 the SF city officialdom is taking back the care of some 125,000 trees, back from city residents who were rather poorly doing the husbandry service as of a 2011 law that made residents...
The storied history of Treasure Island is about to enter another chapter: as a major cultural center destination for San Francisco and SF Bay Area tourists. Or, of course, us residents. And, of course...
San Francisco home sales just set a new high pole vault bar. An Everest-like $40 million to own a fabulous residence at 2712 Broadway in the Pacific Height’s Gold Coast neighborhood. That’s why it...
The much loved Ferry Building up for sale? That’s a surprise. But wait. Not the building itself (built in 1889), which is owned by the Port of San Francisco (thankfully). What is soon to be up for g...
A new record was not easily predictable a while ago as 2016 saw a cooling of prices. However, prices for homes in San Francisco in May reached a new dizzying record median of $1.5 million. This acco...
As Buyers Compete for an Inadequate Supply of Home Listings, San Francisco Median House Sales Price Soars to $1,500,000 in May June 2017 Report Home price appreciation, overbidding asking prices, sup...
Penthouses in luxury high rises are pricey, almost beyond belief pricey, and the sales rolling in San Francisco for sky king condos is breaking records. A Pacific Heights penthouse at the Pacific, Tru...
Dog waste on San Francisco’s charming streets is still a part of the au natural landscape, as we’ve all noticed as we walk the city’s sidewalks or paths. Not all pet owners are law abiding citiz...
Imagine SF with 1 million fewer visitors. For some this may be a good thing for the atmosphere of our city streets this summer. But for many others who depend on tourism’s dollars in SF a drop of a ...
As you’re cruising around one of the most cruisable cities in the world – SF – among many pleasant thoughts could be: What is the history of that street I just passed or I’m driving do...
As the world’s most expensive city to rent in you’d think there are no more affordable places to rent from in SF, oceanside to bayside. After all the median rental in the city is over $3,000 a mon...
For online restaurant reservations you can load up the OpenTable mobile app or website booking engine and snag a table for a certain date and time across a wide selection of dining establishments in t...
A recent report stated what everybody (way past and present) figured in their heads: that Pacific Heights is currently the most expensive neighborhood in the city. The 2712 Broadway super-mansion in P...
Indian restaurants are mushrooming (as in a good mushroom korma curry) in the city, along with a growing number of fast lunch spots and food truck street eats. SF has even imported some Indian curry b...
It’s an annual event that is much anticipated and applauded among SF watchers of all things home design—the Decorator Showcase, for 2017. This year’s showcase was staged in Pacific Heights at a ...
An article out of mansionglobal.com last January dwelled lovingly on the latest trend for amenities for luxury condo complexes: everything pets. Pets are now the new humans when it comes to bringing i...
Since the year began, preliminary data has been trickling in regarding the Bay Area and city economy, and the commercial and residential real estate markets in particular, that appears to indicate th...
The homeless are, of course, part of SF’s history and current challenges. There’ve been homeless in the city ever since its boom in the 1849 gold rush, and certainly in the aftermath of the 1906 t...
The count for the 2016 California population was released on May 1st, and it stands at 39.5 million, an increase of 335,000 Californians—by daughters and sons of the soil and those moving on in. T...
Unit 1A is the 58th floor penthouse of the Millennium Tower, which over the past 5 months has been embroiled in controversy over its sinking 16 inches and tilting northwest several inches. This sinkin...
While our cousins down in LA can’t say they have the highest rents in the entire world (as SF can), and they can’t boast of having the best non-car experience in the U.S., or many of the top U.S. ...
New MLS Listings This Week in San Francisco. Spring Listings are ramping up. 47 single family residences came on market in San Francisco this week. At the bottom of the price point of new SFR listings...
Our cable cars are certainly a significant expression of San Francisco’s charm and magic. Historical, fun, cool views, great mechanical feel on those tracks, the bell dinging in toe-tapping rhythms....
Spring is blowing up beautifully all around us, and right now for every weekend or weekday we have off we’re contemplating what to see in San Francisco in this wonderfully everything-renewing season...
If you’re keeping an eye out on new real estate developments around town you can’t help but notice that many of the lower story ones look very alike. Like twins, triplets and quadruplets. They all...
Take an overhead street map of all of San Francisco’s districts that can be zoomed in and out of and scrolled around on. Then add in a layer of different sized black dots sprinkled all around the SF...
Here’s something curiously unique and a very once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Haven’t you ever thought about owning your own alley in SF? Sure. Lots of people have. And it’s only $35,000. Pretty ...
Here in San Francisco, we’re great and discerning wine drinkers. And we’ve got some really good vintners in the immediate Bay Area, of whom the top 25 in toto have produced 444 million bottles. Fo...
A consideration of the main factors at play behind the current San Francisco real estate market, some of which reflect general macro-economic trends and some of which are specific to the city itself....
San Francisco’s Paragon Real Estate Group has been rethinking and redesigning its online Market Updates resources for the Bay Area, and its quite a useful, aesthetic presentation for everybody inter...
What’s in for 2017 in the creative world of designing or renovating luxury homes—a vital interest for both sellers and buyers? The inman.com site had a talk with the twin brothers of HGTV’s Prop...
Trivia fact: what is the tallest building in SF now? Well, it’s the Salesforce Tower, jutting up an impressive 61 stories (1,070 feet) from the corners of 1st, Mission and Fremont Streets. The tower...
In recent months, there have been multiple reports in local media about Big Drops in San Francisco Home Prices! But, umm, we are not seeing it, neither on the ground in the hurly burly of buyers and ...
How often is San Francisco (and other Bay Area locations) mentioned in literature—fiction, nonfiction and poetry? Well, a lot, and certainly often enough to make a very edifying and fun interactive ...
The origami silhouette of cranes towering up in our SF skyline always gives a good, immediate look at the current big real estate projects being constructed in our fair city. And if you’re typically...
San Francisco is known for many breakout cultural expressions, and luxury home living—beginning with the nouveau riche of the California Gold Rush–is still among our prized iconography. The year 2...
Rents have been parachuting down in San Francisco some 9 percent from last year, yet the city is still the most expensive for rentals in the U.S. and, as well, on the entire planet. If you’re lookin...
The population inflow into the Bay Area is declining, and now single-family home sales in San Francisco hit a remarkable milestone in a five-year sales low this past February. This is down 4 percent f...
San Francisco is the most way, way expensive city to rent in globally, as we blogged about on February 28th. That’s what a worldwide survey conducted by Nested concluded. We are the champs of high r...
A condo tower called “Bay Tower” that twists horizontally in two directions as it rises up 400 feet will soon be an SF architectural conversation piece at the northwest corner of Folsom and Spear ...
A new national report from the real estate Redfin observed that in the home buying market in the SF Bay Area bidding battles are the usual for each home, rather than the unusual. And for once San Fran...
Spring is in the air now that all the atmospheric river storms have come and gone—well, at least for now. And last week we even had snow dusting on our local mountain tops and high passes. The great...
Happy hours are a cultural fixture (and time) in SF after-work life, and who knows how many really good literary or artistic or business ideas have gestated in the wombs of happy hour establishments. ...
Home sales across the board in the greater Bay Area dropped 9.4 percent in 2016—a decline of 6,466 successful sales. In SF the decline was 11.5 percent. This according to a recent report from Proper...
Below are 3 charts from our updated 9-chart report that breaks down which neighborhoods one is most likely to find a home within a specific price range, whether house or condo. The report covers home...
The Winter Wonderland look just visited us again in the normally no-snow-zone Bay Area. Maybe a lot of us in SF missed out on seeing the snowfall on our nearby mountain tops, or didn’t even know abo...
Uber likes to keep a lot of things secret—as everybody knows who follows Uber in the news. And Uber is certainly a presence that is loved and not-so-loved in the city, and even boycotted recently. W...
Comparing the PURCHASE of a 2-bedroom, 2-bath, 1080 square foot condo at the 2016 median San Francisco sales price of $1,150,000, to the RENTAL of a comparable apartment at a San Francisco market rat...
This is a cultural figure to take note of: There are 7,600 permanent restaurants in San Francisco. That’s about 112 restaurants per person, plenty to choose from. And that doesn’t include the 8-ye...
A software engineer for Twitter recently made news internationally when he told a media profiler that it’s hard for him to make ends meet in San Francisco. He makes $160,000 a year. In an anonymous ...
Highest monthly rental payments not just in the U.S., but the world—that’s the conclusion of a recent study done by Nested. Which, of course, means that our beloved SF is the highest in the nation...
At 54 Keith Hammet is a rock icon and iconoclast—established over decades as the hard-riffing lead guitarist and songwriter for Metallica. And like many rockers who project an image of edginess and ...