Rents creeping back up in San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland
Back in May, tenants may have felt a ray of hope when San Francisco rents fell an iota. But now, for the second month in a row, they have inched back up. That’s according to a July report from the...
View ArticleThe politics of Bay Area housing: New coalitions are emerging to fight the...
The Bay Area’s entrenched housing problems are famous for creating divisions: tenant groups and rent control advocates vs. landlords, for instance. But a housing forum held last week at LinkedIn San...
View ArticleVallejo is again the nation’s hottest real estate market, followed by San...
Not San Francisco and not San Jose. Once again, Vallejo is the hottest real estate market in the country, according to realtor.com. It’s the second month in a row that Vallejo has ranked No. 1 in the...
View ArticleJuicero, of the totally unnecessary $400 juice press, squeezes itself out of...
Well, the Bay Area isn’t going to have Juicero to kick around anymore. The company responsible for one of tech’s most mocked products is shutting down. It was only 16 months ago that Juicero, of San...
View ArticleBay Area housing pressures continue: Rents rise again
Rents continued to rise across the Bay Area in September, with San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco all registering year-over-year increases, according to a new report. It offers little relief to...
View ArticleReal estate price growth: a primer on how the Bay Area stacks up against...
Bay Area home prices appreciated faster than the national average over the last year — but not by the wide margin we’ve grown accustomed to hearing about since the regional market caught fire more than...
View ArticleReport: Is there a housing bubble and will it pop in San Francisco?
Home prices are rising nationally and at an even faster clip in the Bay Area. When will it end? That’s the question on the tip of many tongues. A report on housing “bubble risk” in 20 global financial...
View ArticleReport: Bay Area rents rising fastest in Mountain View, Petaluma and Walnut...
A new analysis of Bay Area rents shows the cost of newly advertised apartments rising most rapidly in Mountain View, Petaluma and Walnut Creek and dropping most dramatically in Oakland, Berkeley and...
View ArticleBay Area rents: In city after city, with a handful of exceptions, they are up...
A new report dissecting rent trends across the Bay Area is full of bad news for tenants. With a handful of exceptions, today’s rents are higher in most of the region’s cities than they were a year ago....
View ArticleSam Altman complains about political correctness in San Francisco, says it’s...
To hear Y Combinator President Sam Altman tell it, the future of innovation is at stake because free speech is dead in San Francisco. Altman has been known to float what some might call crazy ideas:...
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