San Francisco rent jumps again in August
Anna Marie Erwert Monday, September 7th blog.sfgate.com San Francisco has already earned the dubious honor of most expensive city in the USA for renters, taking the crown away from Manhattan earlier...
View ArticleDevelopers eye neighborhood around San Francisco’s Balboa Park BART station
Monday, November 2, 2015 bizjournals.com The area around the Balboa Park BART station has the potential to be redeveloped into San Francisco’s next big transit-oriented neighborhood. That...
View ArticleThese Are the 20 Richest Cities in America
The tech boom has shifted the balance of economic power Ali Donaldson, We Lu Thursday November 5, 2015 bloomberg.com San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle: These cities house more than the headquarters of...
View ArticleCole Valley Cheesemonger: Prop J Legacy Business Fund Full Of Holes
Saturday, November 14, 2015 Walter Thompson hoodline.com On the low-turnout Nov. 3 election, 56% of voters approved Proposition J, the Legacy Business Historic Preservation Fund. The new fund will...
View ArticleHere’s How Today’s Higher Home Prices Differ From Bubble Era
Monday, November 16, 2015 Jeanna Smialek bloomberg.com Home builders set floor trusses in place that will support the second story floor in Doral, Florida. Photographer: Mark Elias/Bloomberg Not a...
View ArticleApple’s New San Francisco Office Is More Than Just a Move From Cupertino
MARCH 3, 2016 Reuters fortune.com It’s a shift in thinking. From Apple’s earliest days, executives insisted that employees work from its headquarters in sleepy suburban Cupertino. The thinking,...
View ArticleChina Backs Away From SF Real Estate…Slowly?
MARCH 10, 2016 by Adam Brinklow sf.curbed.com The last few years have seen a dramatic spike in foreign ownership in the Bay Area (particularly among Chinese investors), but given the economic climate,...
View ArticleGo west, new housing — within reason
MARCH 13, 2016 by Joel P. Engardio sfexaminer.com Westside San Francisco, where homes are detached with lawns on four sides in District 7. (Joel P. Engardio/Special to S.F. Examiner) Venture west of...
View ArticleLots Of Tech Talent Trying To Leave SF For NY
April 15, 2016 Jay Barmann sfist.com Compared to last year, many more of the tech-employed are trying to flee the Bay Area, and of those looking to relocate, about half are hoping to move to New York....
View ArticleA Mapped Introduction to San Francisco’s Many Varieties of Victorians
sf.curbed.com Alex Bevk Wednesday, April 20, 2016 Ask anyone to describe what makes San Francisco so special and Victorian architecture would be right up at the top of the list, Family-Feud style. Here...
View ArticleOne Man Compiled 68 Years of Data To Find Out Why Rents Go Up
sf.curbed.com Adam Brinklow Wednesday, May 17,2016 We’ve seen a 6.6 percent increase every year for 60 years Eric Fischer is an ex-Googler, a map geek, and an artist in residence at the Exploratorium...
View ArticleHomes in this city sold above asking price 92% of the time
July 21, 2016 by Riley McDermid bizjournals.com Daly City ranks No. 1 in houses sold over their asking price, according to the real estate site OpenHouse, which ranked six Bay Area neighborhoods as...
View ArticleCredit reports for mortgages loans get an update
Saturday, October 29, 2016 Sarah Skidmore Sell USA Today Applying for a home loan? You may want to consider paying off your credit card bill first. Thanks to a recent change by major credit rating...
View Article10 Things No One Tells You About… San Francisco
Saturday, October 29th, 2016 Amanda Wowk thepointsguy.com The City by the Bay has been sung about, lusted after, and touted for its many charms; so many that even the most frequent of travelers could...
View ArticleSan Francisco has become a city for rich renters
Sunday, November 6th, 2016 Wolf Richter Business Insider Kārlis Dambrāns/Flickr Renters have long struggled with soaring rents in some of the top housing markets in the US. In San Francisco, it’s...
View ArticleZephyr Real Estate – Marin Awards Roth, O’Briens, Davis and Spiro Marin Team
Monday, November 21st, 2016 Melody Foster Marketwired (SOURCE: Zephyr Real Estate) L-R upper: JJ Davis, George Stratigos, Dorothy MacDougald and Spiro Stratigos L-R lower: Deirdre and David O’Brien and...
View ArticleThings to Consider Before Using an Alternative Mortgage Lender
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016 Janet Thompson Curbed Can apps promising rapid approvals be trusted? We live in a world where just about anything you want is just a click away. If you believe the catchy...
View ArticleMY PERFECT 24 HOURS IN SAN FRANCISCO WITH KIDS
Monday, December 5th, 2016 Marta Learning Escapes I love discovering new places, but some cities have such a special pull on me that no matter how many times I visit them, I still long to go back. One...
View ArticleU.S. House Prices to Rise Next Year, Trump Effect Unknown so far
Monday, December 5th, 2016 Rahul Karunakar Reuters.com Roofers work on new homes at a residential construction site. REUTERS/Steve Marcus U.S. house prices are set to rise almost 5 percent next year, a...
View ArticleBernal Heights, San Francisco: An Inclusive Village With Lofty Prices
Saturday, December 10th, 2016 Julie Lasky The New York Times Back in 1987, when Jessica Burdman and her then-husband were shopping for a house in San Francisco, they found themselves priced out of...
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