If adopted by voters in November, California Proposition 10 would overturn the state’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act which prevents rent control from applying to single-family homes, condos or any multifamily building which received a certificate of occupancy after January of 1995 (or earlier if a city had already adopted... Read More »

Plans for a four building development to rise along San Bruno Avenue, between Mansell and Ward on the northern border of Visitacion Valley, have been drawn. But a historic storybook façade (which would be preserved but relocated a little south), billboard (for which there’s a sight-line easement to the... Read More »

Having slipped a nominal 0.3 percent over the past month, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco, including one-off rentals as well as those in larger developments, is now running around $4,230 a month, which is 0.6 percent higher than at the same time last... Read More »

Purchased for $855,000 in 2004, the single-family home at 166 Newton Street in Crocker Amazon has been operating as an illegal “hacker/co-living house for entrepreneurs, developers, digital nomads and students.” Unregistered with the City but still listed on Airbnb, the host of the “Aviato Club” on Newton, whom had... Read More »

Having peaked in the second quarter of 2016, the quarter in which San Francisco drafted a new short term rental law which was finally implemented last year, the number of formal complaints related to illegal short-term rental activity in San Francisco totaled around 80 in the second quarter of... Read More »

Having ended last year lower than where they started, asking rents for apartments in San Francisco have since ticked up nearly 6 percent since the beginning of the year. But once again, the majority of said gain can be attributed to normal seasonality. In fact, based on a comparison... Read More »

Plans for a pair of residential towers to rise up to 275 feet in height at 325 Seventh Street, on the edge of Oakland’s Chinatown, were first approved by the city seven years ago, the ground for which has yet to be broken. Two years ago, the project team... Read More »

Discretely enacted in 2014, rolled out across the entire city in 2016, and expanded to increase flexibility for the inclusion of single-family homes in 2017, San Francisco’s Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) program has so far resulted in 691 applications for building permits to legally add 1,244 ADUs to existing... Read More »

Having ended last year lower than where they started, asking rents for apartments in San Francisco have since ticked up a little over 3 percent since the beginning of the year, but the majority of said gain can be attributed to normal seasonality. In fact, based on a comparison... Read More »

The owner and operator of a warren of illegally constructed rental units discovered in the basement of the Clean Wash Center building at 4680-4690 Mission Street, on the border of Mission Terrace and the Excelsior, have agreed to pay over $3.2 million in penalties and restitution. Built in the... Read More »