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Home sales and prices jump across the Bay Area, California
As tough as it is to find an affordable home — or any home at all — in the Bay Area, the housing crunch is a statewide phenomenon. New listings plunged 12 percent in March from one year earlier,...
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Bay Area home buyers are searching for something affordable — and looking...
Hunting for a house that’s affordable, nearly one in five Bay Area home seekers is looking outside the region. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis by Redfin. The brokerage sampled nearly 1 million...
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Uh oh: Rents creep back up in San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland
They were inching down, down, down for months. But following on reports that job growth has rebounded in the region, Bay Area rents creeped back up in April. According to a study by the Axiometrics...
View ArticleLyft adds black-car service, chases high-end Uber customers
Lyft will chase Uber Technology’s high-end clientele by adding its own black-car service that features leather seats and other goodies, in an expansion of its offerings that includes Santa Clara County...
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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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 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...
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 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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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 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...
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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 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...
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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 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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