Sam 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:...
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....
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Report: 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 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 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...
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Bay 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 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 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 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...
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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 ArticlePending home sales slipped across Bay Area and California in June
Amid the dwindling home supply, the Bay Area real estate market experienced an increase in home sales during the spring. Hellbent buyers snapped up whatever was available, resulting in a year-over-year...
View ArticleWorld’s 10 least affordable housing markets include San Jose (least...
Way to go, San Jose! You’re the least affordable city in the USA and the fifth least affordable city in the world. In fact, you are even less affordable than San Francisco, which is only the ninth...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s Hunters Point gets free gigabit internet, more to follow
In the 21st century, internet at home is as much a necessity as water and electricity. That’s why a San Francisco-based internet service provider is providing free gigabit-speed internet access at more...
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The nation’s hottest real estate markets: Vallejo is No. 1, San...
Realtor.com’s latest “Hotness Index” is loaded with Bay Area markets, which is only to be expected. Less expected is this: the Vallejo-Fairfield market is the No. 1 “hottest” market in the United...
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For millennials in Silicon Valley, buying a home is pretty much a nightmare
How hard is it for millennials to break into the homebuying market? It’s hard. Especially in San Jose. A new report shows that between 2005 and 2015, the rate of home ownership among millennials in the...
View ArticleRemote work trumps palatial office: tech workers at WordPress parent firm in...
The techies have spoken: working remotely trumps even a palatial office with games for all. Automattic, the San Francisco firm that owns publishing-platform company WordPress, is selling its office, a...
View ArticleFacebook eyes San Francisco office space
Facebook is on the hunt for office space in San Francisco. A person familiar with the matter told SiliconBeat that the tech firm is looking at different locations throughout the city for a small pilot...
View ArticleGoogle finds hiring easier for Seattle because Bay Area housing costs are so...
Rain, what rain? Clearly the prospect of having a couple of nickels to rub together after paying the rent or mortgage outweighs months of soggy weather and sodden hoodies — techies are reportedly...
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Sky-high Bay Area rents keep softening
Sky-high Bay Area rents softened a smidgeon last month, at least if you were looking for a 1-bedroom apartment. That’s the takeaway from a new report by Abodo, the apartment listings website. Its June...
View ArticleCustomer data stolen as S.F. cybersecurity firm hacked, Stanford medical...
Cybersecurity is big business in the Bay Area, with new firms popping up virtually every week to meet the global demand for data protection in a world teeming with sophisticated hackers. Now one of the...
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