Tag: Affordability

While plans to merge the 3 lots at 2419-2435 Lombard Street and develop a 4-story building, with 12 condos over a ground floor commercial space, were approved back in 2014,…

For the first time ever, a major metropolitan area in U.S. has recorded a median sale price above $1 million for single-family homes. And that honor belongs to San Jose,…

According to a poll of 1,000 Bay Area residents conducted for the Bay Area Council, only 40 percent of residents feel like we’re “headed in the right direction,” down from…

The relative cost of living near BART has been newly mapped by Estately, which compiled the average sale price per square foot for all the houses, townhouses and condos that…

San Jose (#1) and San Francisco (#2) remain the two most expensive major metropolitan areas in U.S. for single-family homes and the gap between the two and the rest of…

Two landlords who employed the Ellis Act to evict tenants from the rent-controlled units and then marketed the apartments as short-term rentals on Airbnb, Homeway and VRBO have been hit…

San Jose and San Francisco remain the two most expensive major metropolitan areas in U.S. for single-family homes, but the gap between the two and the completion has narrowed a…

Responding to the Civil Grand Jury report which noted that the Mayor’s goal of creating 30,000 new and rehabilitated homes is San Francisco by 2020 “will provide some relief to the…

While home-price growth in the U.S. has slowed to its slowest pace since 2012, up an average of 4.4 percent, year-over-year, the median single-family home sale price within the San…

As was long ago determined by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and the regional Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), in order to meet the growing…