The cost of renting just one room in San Francisco: $$$$$$
We often read about median rents for “average” apartments around the Bay Area. Toward the close of 2016, the Mercury News reported that typical apartments went for $2,500 in San Jose, $2,927 in...
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Bay Area rents: Are they really sliding? Yes and no, says Zumper
As the new year begins, we’ve heard multiple reports about rents, which are said to be declining gradually throughout the Bay Area — a bit of relief, after years of painful increases that have left...
View ArticleS.F. startup takes swipe at Trump administration, pledges to keep birth...
Efforts underway in the Republican-controlled Congress and the administration of President Donald Trump to dismantle the Affordable Care Act could raise the cost of birth control, but a San Francisco...
View ArticleUber eyes flying automobiles, brings NASA veteran aboard
It’s back to the future, Uber style: Uber Technologies is speeding ahead with plans for flying cars, which could zoom among urban centers such as Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Oakland, by hiring a...
View ArticleTwitter launches new safety, anti-abuse tools
Twitter is launching a fresh array of tools to enable tweeters to combat abuse and unsafe posts, as part of a quest to give people more control over what they see on the social network, the company...
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Redfin: San Francisco, Oakland in Top 10 most walkable cities
In the new walkable real estate world, cars don’t matter and neighborhoods and cities get rated by proximity to restaurants and retail, parks and other perks of urban living. Enter Redfin and its new...
View ArticleGroup demands DMV halt Uber unit’s self-driving trucks
Consumer Watchdog is asking California officials to revoke the registrations of the self-driving trucks being operated by an Uber unit and to seek charges against the subsidiary, which is called Otto....
View ArticleS.F. startup MuleSoft plans $100 million initial public offering
MuleSoft, a business-software unicorn, has filed papers for an initial public offering of its stock, according to a new regulatory prospectus that details the San Francisco startup’s plans to raise...
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Who rents vs. who buys: San Francisco and LA among top ‘renter’ cities
Ah, the quandary: to own or to rent. A new report from Abodo, an apartment listing website, sorts out where Americans stand on the issue. It finds that only 21 of 400 large metropolitan areas across...
View ArticleBay Area home sales: ‘Flat is the new black’
January home sales in the Bay Area took a plunge from December — a 31.8 percent drop, making January the weakest sales month in nearly a decade. “We expect home sales to be low this time of year...
View ArticleAT&T slammed by Bay Area mayors over ‘greed’ and ‘corporate games’ as it...
Dozens of mayors and other elected officials from the Bay Area and around California have lashed out at AT&T, claiming the telecommunications giant is denying high-speed broadband and reliable...
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Somehow, Bay Area home prices went up yet again in February
The Bay Area’s residential real estate market showed strong year-over-year price gains in February, though sales activity was down from a year earlier. As shown in a new report from the California...
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Fierce bidding for homes persists in Bay Area, led by San Jose: national report
We keep hearing about rising interest rates and widespread concerns about the cost of housing — and how these and other factors are bound to put the brakes on the Bay Area real estate market. Yet...
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San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland: Bay Area rents take a slide
Down, down, down go the rents. So they tell us. Last month, San Francisco had the slowest rent growth of any city in the U.S. — down 3.6 percent from a year earlier. According to a new study by the...
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San Francisco and Oakland home values boosted by access to transit, Redfin...
It’s one of those indisputable selling points: Easy access to public transportation can push up home values in a neighborhood — or in an entire city. A new analysis of home sales and transit...
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Bay Area real estate: There are more starter homes on the market… but don’t...
Lack of housing supply is a frustration — a constant one — for prospective homebuyers in the Bay Area. With so few homes available and the region still gaining jobs, competition among buyers keeps...
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Evidence mounts: Rents droop around Bay Area
There’s more evidence that they’re getting a little droopy, those Bay Area rents. And Oakland is leading the way: March rents were down 2.3 percent from one year earlier, as well as down 1.8 percent...
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Brain drain? San Jose, San Francisco tech workers seek jobs elsewhere
Silicon Valley job seekers are more likely to scout for greener pastures outside of the Bay Area compared with those in other tech hubs, according to unsettling research results that job site...
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Tight home supply keeps driving up real estate prices in Bay Area and nation
We’ve been hearing the same story, month after month: The tight housing supply is driving competition among buyers, which keeps pushing home prices up. It’s a national story. The number of U.S. homes...
View ArticleGeneral Motors to expand San Francisco self-driving car unit, hire more than...
Automaker General Motors will spend $14 million to expand its Cruise Automation self-driving car unit in San Francisco, and will hire 1,100 workers over the next five years, the firm announced April...
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