We’ve been playing the before-and-after home comparison game a lot lately–but then, we’re seeing an awful lot of freshly renovated properties in the neighborhood, so it’s bound to come up. Sometimes the […]
The nonprofit Little Free Libraries (LFL) was born in 2009 when Todd Bol from Hudson, Wisconsin, built a one-room model schoolhouse and set it up in his front yard on a post. He filled it with books to honor his mother who was a teacher and book lover.
“Okay, but what if a housing crash DOES happen?” That was pretty much the response we got to last week’s column noting that, while housing prices will certainly go down to a […]
Editor: We call it the “longer, colder, harder” Bay to Breakers. Started in 1987, by famed South Ender Bob Roper, he claims it came to him in a dream along with the […]
It’s now been almost ten years since the Battle of Cornwall. Cornwall Street, that is; this wasn’t a military venture but instead a conflict of opinions about what should be done with […]
A wild new Sea Cliff listing caught our eye this week, described as a “lovely Craftsman style” property that soars up to three stories and sprawls across over 2,100 square feet. That […]
San Francisco’s remodel wars are actually a bit quieter these days than they used to be. Not because people are any less passionate about whether and how we should preserve classic houses, […]
Sometimes we write about the ever-important Days On the Market metric in the home sales, and we marvel at just how quickly homes in the Richmond are selling these days. The median […]
Last year we wrote about how the new Central Subway to Chinatown could, once upon a time, have connected to the Richmond instead, and why those designs never manifested. Since then, a […]
Previously, we wrote about the very first road into the Richmond, and how this umbilical connection to the rest of the city ushered in the housing development that made the Richmond, well, […]
Not many home listings can be called infamous; of course, not many would want to be, but you don’t get to pick and choose your accolades. The once-ritzy property at 224 Sea […]
Photojournalist Jeremy Word’s photos of two Taraval Street record stores.
The most important thing about housing is actually transit–you’re never going to sell a house nobody can get to, and even to this day, homes in SF’s western neighborhoods struggle with the […]
Photos from the “Light Up the Night” event – a bicycle parade – in Golden Gate Park, Jan.m 29, 2022. Photos by John Oppenheimer.
This is not as straightforward of a question as it seems. For one thing, it depends on what source we’re relying on: The standard (and easiest) authority on home-selling is the go-to […]
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