San Francisco homes, neighborhoods, architecture, and real estate

Kingly Tudor hits market for first time in 56 years

by Adam Brinklow Oct 24, 2016, 12:00p

For a kingly $14 million

Inside an architect's stunning midcentury home in San Diego

by Mary Jo Bowling Oct 24, 2016, 7:00a

When the house was built in 1946, it had no design pedigree, yet award-winning architect John Ike of Ike Kligerman Barkley was drawn to it by what he describes as an emotional pull.

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181 Fremont Residences

by Nelle Plotkin Oct 21, 2016, 6:00a

55 Signature Residences* Interiors Designed by Orlando Diaz-Azcuy* 181residences.com • 415.282.0888* Exclusively Represented by The Mark Company

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Sun rises on sunrise mosaic in Chinatown

by Adam Brinklow Oct 24, 2016, 11:00a

Don’t look directly into it

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Beachy Fresh & Luminous, Top Floor Condo

by Nelle Plotkin Oct 21, 2016, 2:18p

Fresh, Airy Full Floor 3BD/2BA on Quiet Block* Views to Ocean & GG Park, Easy Walk to Balboa Village* 4020 Balboa Street #3 San Francisco, CA* Wendy Storch, 415.519.6091, Wendy@WendyStorch.com [SOTHEBY’S]

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The High & The Low: SF’s most and least expensive homes this week

by Adam Brinklow Oct 24, 2016, 9:00a

A season for big payoffs on Market Street, while Cow Hollow goes way low

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Passive homes actively sell for $4 million plus

by Adam Brinklow Oct 21, 2016, 1:36p

Final results are in for experiment in German efficiency. San Francisco buyers seem to like energy-neutral homes...but maybe not more than similar places in the same neighborhoods.

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Real estate firm tries to rebrand Tenderloin “Union Square West” (again)

by Adam Brinklow Oct 21, 2016, 9:00a

Is the Tenderloin really as "gentrification proof" as its reputation? And would this name ever possibly catch on even if it wasn’t?

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Curbed Comparisons: What $2,350/month rents you in SF

by Adam Brinklow Oct 20, 2016, 3:17p

Can’t go home again? We’ve got five more for you, from North Beach to SoMa, from Pac Heights to the Castro.

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Under $700K Club: Sunset fixer v Candlestick condo

by Adam Brinklow Oct 20, 2016, 1:00p

Buying on a budget means making choices: New or old? Bigger or smaller? Old neighborhood or up and comer? Fixer or ready-to-go out of the box?

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East Bay fault more powerful than ever imagined

by Adam Brinklow Oct 20, 2016, 12:00p

The muddy San Pablo Bay has been hiding a secret all of these years, and it's not good news for the Bay Area. This isn't the time to panic--but it is time to plan.

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Gorgeous, weird Berkeley warehouse asks $799K

by Adam Brinklow Oct 20, 2016, 11:00a

The ideal if unlikely lovechild of Berkeley hills style and an old industrial frame.

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Last of the Light House asks $6.14 million

by Adam Brinklow Oct 20, 2016, 10:00a

Recently a $28,000/month rental (!), the final unit in the converted but preserved 101-year-old church is finally looking for a permanent resident, for a slightly diminished price compared to its immediate neighbors.

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San Francisco House Calls

Call for submissions! See your home featured on Curbed

by Brock Keeling Sep 9, 2016, 9:15a

Effective immediately, we're looking for volunteers with offbeat, curious, or just refreshingly cozy dwellings to invite us into their homes for a tour and a photo shoot. (Unique decor and wild collections a plus!)

Millennium promises new building goes to bedrock

by Adam Brinklow Oct 20, 2016, 9:00a

Previously recalcitrant for fear that changing their favored foundation design would be seen as an admission of error, the developer finally gave in to community pressure and promised that the 40-plus story building on Mission will hit rock bottom.

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Map: Every million dollar one-bed home in SF

by Adam Brinklow Oct 19, 2016, 3:09p

What strange days are we living in when dozens of single bedroom homes in San Francisco break seven figures? And what are they all full of that breaks the bank, if not bedrooms?

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More than 42,000 new homes on the way...by 2042

by Adam Brinklow Oct 19, 2016, 1:00p

Almost all construction approved but yet to begin resides in a handful of huge, ambitious mixed-use projects in underdeveloped areas like Treasure Island, which stretches the timeline for many of those units out by a few decades.

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Millennium Tower sinking: Everything you need to know

181 Fremont issues statement: ‘We’re drilled into bedrock’ Aug 2, 2016, 9:24a
A brief history of the sinking Millennium Tower Aug 1, 2016, 12:22p
Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking Aug 1, 2016, 8:54a

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Under $700K Club: Shipyard mini-flip asks $575,000

by Adam Brinklow Oct 19, 2016, 12:00p

Ship-shape Shipyard home first sold almost exactly a year ago for a tiny bit more than $500K and now returns asking a slightly less tiny bit more than that, making it a rare two-time candidate for the Under $700K Club.

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Parisian-style penthouse asks $1.69 million

by Adam Brinklow Oct 19, 2016, 11:00a

Nob Hill goes for a continental vibe in one of its old Belle Epoque buildings, but different owners have rather remarkably different ideas about what was quite so belle about that particular epoque, as the penthouse reveals.

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Airbnb pulls plug on multi-listing hosts

by Adam Brinklow Oct 19, 2016, 9:56a

In an olive branch to the city, the site will now implement a one host, one home rule starting in November, which could remove at least 1,450 listings in the city. Will it satisfy lawmakers out to blunt the site's impact on city housing?

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San Francisco House Calls

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San Francisco House Calls

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An artist finds a home, and community, in a Mission District Victorian

by Mary Jo Bowling Sep 26, 2016, 8:30a
Call for submissions! See your home featured on Curbed

by Brock Keeling Sep 9, 2016, 9:15a
Roommates share eclectic style in an Oakland live/work loft

by Brock Keeling Jun 30, 2016, 3:00p
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CCSF leases Gough Street land for housing

by Adam Brinklow Oct 19, 2016, 9:00a

It's a lesson in city planning efficiency, as the 46,000 square foot lot just off of Gough Street that has hitherto held only admin buildings will become hundreds of new housing units in a deal that yields $11.5 million for the cash-strapped school.

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Curbed Comparisons: What $5,200/month rents in SF

by Adam Brinklow Oct 18, 2016, 1:57p

San Francisco is getting bigger every day, so which part of it do you want for yourself? We're lining up five homes-to-be, from Buena Vista down to Glen Park.

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City talks subway to Bayview, Mission Bay, Wharf

by Adam Brinklow Oct 18, 2016, 1:00p

Tentative subway proposals suggest tripling the present tunnel network. Yeah, thinks might be getting nuts around here pretty soon, if only we cross our fingers hard enough for funding to materialize.

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Artists paint Salesforce as it becomes tallest

by Adam Brinklow Oct 18, 2016, 12:00p

Right around the same time that Salesforce Tower became the tallest building in San Francisco, some local artists put easel to sidewalk to commemorate the moment in their signature, dreamy style.

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Old school Four Seasons condo asks $6.45 million

by Adam Brinklow Oct 18, 2016, 11:00a

Normally this kind of place costs you $14,000/night, so in an odd way this qualifies as a bargain. In case you're the sort who counts your pennies when spending six and a half million.

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San Francisco transportation

SF really, really wants Geary, Van Ness subway

by Adam Brinklow Oct 18, 2016, 10:00a

SFMTA asked us to submit our ideal subway maps, and now the people have spoken. By and large, they said the same thing they have for decades: The Geary line needs some light rail relief, as do so many other overtaxed Muni corridors.

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Oakland

Slightly adorable Oakland spec house asks $899K

by Adam Brinklow Oct 18, 2016, 9:00a

A hot mess of a '20s bungalow on this spot has given way to a much larger and more modern home (for more than twice the price) that somehow still retains a kind of petite charm despite its dimensions.

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181 Fremont Residences

by Nelle Plotkin Oct 18, 2016, 8:30a

55 Signature Residences* Interiors Designed by Orlando Diaz-Azcuy* 181residences.com • 415.282.0888* Exclusively Represented by The Mark Company

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Archive photos of Loma Prieta ruins outside SF

by Adam Brinklow Oct 17, 2016, 2:00p

A local disaster is, sadly, not always as local as we might like for it to be. A look at the USGS archive shows us how the landscape changed all over the Bay Area.

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Presidio pours buckets of endangered bugs in lake

by Adam Brinklow Oct 17, 2016, 1:00p

In a tale fit for the Old Testament, the Presidio rescued the last of a hyper rare San Francisco insect population before the waves smash them into extinction, then transplanted them to a nearby lakeside promised land.

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