Fraudster’s Luxuriously Crafted Townhome Forfeited, Reduced
Purchased by a former Cisco Executive for $3.5 million in 2016 with funds that appear to have been acquired by way of an illegal kickback scheme, the 2,888-square-foot townhome unit…
Former Building Commission President Indicted
While the former president of San Francisco’s Building Inspection Commission, Rodrigo Santos, has been indicted for bank fraud, as charged last year, the City Attorney’s investigation into permitting, inspection and…
The Curious Case of the Reapparating Kitchen
Having been flagged for the addition of an unpermitted in-law unit back in early 2015, the Excelsior District home at 68 Vienna Street hit the market in July of 2015,…
Seeking Forgiveness for the Former Abby Hotel
With the master lease to the San Francisco Art Institute, which had been using the building for student housing, having expired last year, and 52 of the 54 units, 27…
Surprise! That’s Not a Legal Parking Spot (Or Unit)
While common in practice and rarely enforced, parking in the setback/driveway between a home’s garage and the sidewalk in San Francisco is technically illegal per Planning Code Section 132(f), and…
Seized Pac Heights Home Listed with a $14M Price Tag
Seized by the U.S. Marshals Service earlier this year, which shouldn’t have caught any plugged-in readers by surprise, the four-bedroom, 5,100-square-foot Pacific Heights view home at 2755 Fillmore Street has…
Charges Against Former Building Commission President Grow
As we first reported back in 2018: San Francisco’s City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, has just filed suit against construction engineering firm Santos & Urrutia Associates, its principals and several clients…
Reports of Illegal Airbnb-ing Back on the Rise in San Francisco
While the number of formal complaints related to illegal short-term rental activity in San Francisco had been on the decline since the second quarter of 2016, following the passage (and…
$13.5 Million Pac Heights Home Has Been Seized
It was back in April of 2018 that we tied the eye-popping sale of 2755 Fillmore Street for $13.5 million to Michael Lacey, the co-founder of Backpage.com, and two counts…
Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval
While the original terms of the Academy of Art University’s nearly $60 million settlement with the City of San Francisco – to resolve allegations that the institution had systematically schemed…