Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, a regular column exploring what you can rent for a set dollar amount in different neighborhoods. Is one person's studio another person's townhouse? Let's find out. Today's price: $7,300.
Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, a regular column exploring what you can rent for a set dollar amount in different neighborhoods. Is one person's studio another person's townhouse? Let's find out. Today's price: $7,000.
Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, a regular column exploring what you can rent for a set dollar amount in different neighborhoods. Is one person's studio another person's townhouse? Let's find out. Today's price: $3,400, just about San Francisco’s median rent this month.
As home prices in San Francisco plateau, it’s still a brutal market for the buyer. But there still are a select few (very few) homes that cost comparatively little. Such abodes are perfect candidates for our Under $700K Club.
From Union Square down to the Excelsior, there are only so many rentals in the city to go around. Fortunately, you only need one, and we've got five to compare.
Billed as an "entertainer’s masterpiece," this home at 1218 Mariposa keeps things sleek and slick in Potrero Hill. It features two beds, two and a half baths, a roomy 3,227 square feet, oak and bamboo flooring, radiant floor heating, and more.
Oof. We here at Curbed SF often swipe right to seek longterm relationships with contemporary structures or a downtown flat. But now and then, we yearn to runway with one of these low slung A-frame Edwardians, often found up in Potrero Hill.
It's a big, audacious new building in a highly sensitive place on the cusp of two must-have neighborhoods. Rowan's mission statement, as the architect explains to Curbed SF, was to be noticed.
With the advent of unfettered ride-sharing companies, as well as an influx of residents who can afford car payments, the city has seen more vehicles take over city streets. Not to mention congestion and accident. But one intersection is getting help.
For some, a tiny home is a conscious design decision. For others, it’s a practical necessity to make ends meet in our ever-more expensive urban landscape. Here are the most compact space in the city now on the market.
If you're curious what's coming together behind that fascinating crisscrossed facade on Potrero Avenue, a few conceptual images of the upcoming homes have trickled out.
It took weeks for the appeal of 88 Arkansas Street, a 127 unit building proposed for a site across the street from Jackson Playground, to get a hearing. It took only 30 seconds for the city board to toss the neighbors' argument right out.
The needle can swing pretty far between the city's most expensive and least expensive homes. This week it's a two-way tie for the most extravagant spot and a loft that's been off the market for 20 years at the frugal end.
For lack of an exterior window on 40 percent of their units, the entire 127-unit project may have to go back to the drawing board after an appeal brought everything to a halt.
The Potrero Hill listing is more than seven times the most recent sale price just three years ago, and only $150,000 less than the average (built) San Francisco home.