Red Rock Island now yours for only $5M
How much to own your own private island spanning three Bay Area Counties? $22M? Half that? A quarter? Don’t worry if you can’t guess: neither can Red Rock Island’s seller and real estate team. In 2012,...
View ArticleNew Richmond condo complex selling a unit a day since hitting market
Would readers be surprised if one of the fastest selling condo projects in the Bay Area—fast as in 7 units per week—isn’t located in San Francisco. It’s not in the Silicon Valley. It’s not even in...
View ArticleQuarterly rent report confirms: There are zero affordable neighborhoods for...
It’s official: Though rents are higher in some parts of San Francisco than others, the days of “low,” “cheap” or even “decent” rents in certain neighborhoods are over. The overall median price for a...
View ArticleDespite rent control, S.F. apartment buildings prove solid investments
One of the most important factors that always has driven San Francisco rents higher than other American cities is scarce inventory. “San Francisco is very much a boutique market of smaller buildings,”...
View ArticleNew study shows profound impact of tech industry on Bay Area real estate
The tech industry. Over and over in recent years, this economic sector has been targeted as the cause of dramatic upticks in both home prices and rents in the Bay Area. But is this a fair accusation?...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s November rent sets yet another record
Just when you thought maybe, just maybe there was a chink in the high-priced armor worn by San Francisco’s rent market, the median rent for a one bedroom went up again. After a record in early...
View ArticleSleep in Steinbeck’s tiny writer’s studio for $175
Airbnb enjoys fans and foes in the Bay Area, and that’s true of the Monterey Bay Area just as of the San Francisco Bay Area. But for travelers with a penchant for litearary history, what could be more...
View ArticleSF’s November median 1 BR rent goes down almost 5 percent
In October, San Francisco’s median rent for one-bedroom apartments set a record at $3,670 a month. But with Thanksgiving in the rearview, the city’s many tenants may have something surprising to be...
View ArticleOakland ascends to nation’s 4th most expensive rental market
Last week, we learned the surprising news that San Francisco’s median rent took a dip in November, the first in many months of steady upward progress. But across the Bay, the news differs, according to...
View ArticleSan Francisco Giants Hunter Pence buys luxury condo in Millennium Tower
Hunter Pence is not only baseball savvy; he’s also real estate savvy. The Giants right fielder recently scored a two-bed, three-bath luxury condo in the coveted Millennium Tower at below asking price....
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