SF Sellers Are Moving Out, And Behind A Couple Of Buyer Myths
A couple of stats from a survey of Paragon Real Estate Group agents with respect to their last 12 months of activity in San Francisco: 60 percent of the sellers…
San Francisco’s City Attorney Sues Short-Term Rental Scofflaws
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has filed two lawsuits against landlords in San Francisco for illegally converting their apartments into short-term rentals, which the property owners then marketed through…
Why SF Rent Board Stats Undercounted Evictions By 42% Last Year
A new analysis prepared for Supervisor Campos has determined that the effective number of eviction proceedings filed in San Francisco last year was 73 percent higher than reported to the…
Hayes Valley Development Sold, New Condos Coming In 2015
The approved David Baker-designed development to rise on the northeast corner of Fulton and Gough has just been sold to the newly formed 7X7 Development group which plans to break…
Law Would Ban Full-Time Airbnb Rentals, Require Registration
Supervisor David Chiu is slated to introduce new legislation this afternoon which would lift the outright ban on short-term rentals in San Francisco but establish a new set of rules…
Proposed “Housing Balance” Ordinance Could Be Out Of Whack
Introduced by Supervisor Kim and co-sponsored by Supervisors Avalos, Campos and Mar, a proposed “Housing Balance” ordinance would require new developments of ten or more housing units to obtain special…
Ellis Act Eviction Activity In San Francisco By The Numbers
3,610 housing units were removed from the rental market in San Francisco by way of an Ellis Act eviction from 1997 to 2013, according to a new report by Tenants…
Legislation To Legalize Unpermitted In-Law Units Adopted
Building owners with an unpermitted in-law constructed prior to January 1, 2013 will now have the option of legalizing the unit by way of the legislation adopted by San Francisco’s…
A Near Meaningless Analysis Of Ellis Act Profiteering That’s Likely To Make The News
At the request of Supervisor Campos and based on “a random sample of 15 properties” as outlined above, San Francisco’s Budget and Legislative Analyst has just completed an analysis “on…
Two-Year Rent Subsidy For Evicted Tenants Closer To Reality
The language for proposed legislation which would require landlords in San Francisco who evoke the Ellis Act to pay their evicted tenants an upfront sum equal to the difference between…