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Your guide to Bayview, the 2016 Neighborhood of the Year
This time, we welcome two guides to Bayview, the southside San Francisco neighborhood that, for the second year in a row, won the 2016 Curbed Cup. We have Barbara Ockel, interim managing director of the Bayview Opera House, who has been a resident since 1993.
Curbed Comparisons: What $3,600 rents you in San Francisco right now
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: $3,600.
Your Curbed Cup neighborhood of the year: Bayview
The Curbed Cup, our annual award for the neighborhood of the year, kicked off with 8 or 16 neighborhoods vying for the prestigious (fake) trophy. At last, we have a winner!
Curbed Cup Comparisons: What $2,700 rents in SF’s top four neighborhoods
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: $2,700.
Curbed Cup Finals: Bayview (5) vs. Inner Richmond (10)
The Curbed Cup, our annual award for the neighborhood of the year, is kicking off with 8 or 16 neighborhoods vying for the prestigious (fake) trophy. And now we pick the big winner!
Curbed Cup Comparisons: What $5,000 rents in SF’s top four neighborhoods
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: $5,000.
Curbed Cup Final Four: Bayview (5) vs. Nob Hill (9)
The Curbed Cup, our annual award for the neighborhood of the year, is kicking off with 8 or 16 neighborhoods vying for the prestigious (fake) trophy. Voting for each pairing ends 24 hours after it begins. Let the eliminations commence!
Curbed Cup 2nd round results!
The Curbed Cup, our annual award for the neighborhood of the year, is kicking off with 8 or 16 neighborhoods vying for the prestigious (fake) trophy. Voting for each pairing ends 24 hours after it begins. Let the eliminations commence!
Rents drop citywide in SF, rise in Bayview
Stagnation pushed some wealthy and affordable neighborhoods a little closer together in 2016.
Cubed Cup Elite Eight: Bayview (5) vs. Noe Valley (13)
The Curbed Cup, our annual award for the neighborhood of the year, is kicking off with 8 or 16 neighborhoods vying for the prestigious (fake) trophy. Voting for each pairing ends 24 hours after it begins. Let the eliminations commence!
Curbed Comparisons: What $4,900 rents you in San Francisco right now
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: $4,900.
Curbed Cup 1st Round: Bayview (5) vs. Excelsior (12)
The Curbed Cup, our annual award for the neighborhood of the year, is kicking off with 8 or 16 neighborhoods vying for the prestigious (fake) trophy. Voting for each pairing ends 24 hours after it begins. Let the eliminations commence!
Curbed Comparisons: What $4,150 rents you in San Francisco right now
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: $4,150.
Sales plummet for Bay Area’s cheapest homes
Demand for homes priced under half a million way down, but steady for million-dollar offers. Because life just doesn’t make sense sometimes.
One quarter of SF renters make $150K annually
And the number of renters making less than that has gone down. The reason? $15o,000 annually just doesn’t buy many SF homes these days.
What $1,800 rents you in San Francisco right now
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: $1,800.
Where can the average San Franciscan still buy a home?
We use the most aggressive figures we can find to squeeze you in, but only 10 neighborhoods are in reach of median earners.
Curbed Comparisons: What $5,500/month rents you in San Francisco right now
You can’t buy happiness, but here’s five places you might rent it, from Alamo Square to Visitacion Valley.
Shipyard architect David Adjaye wants “more natural” Hunters Point
The site finally has housing, but is it yet a neighborhood?
Under $700K Club: Sunset fixer v Candlestick condo
Buying on a budget means making choices: New or old? Bigger or smaller? Old neighborhood or up and comer? Fixer or ready-to-go out of the box?
More than 42,000 new homes on the way...by 2042
Almost all construction approved but yet to begin resides in a handful of huge, ambitious mixed-use projects in underdeveloped areas like Treasure Island, which stretches the timeline for many of those units out by a few decades.
Under $700K Club: Shipyard mini-flip asks $575,000
Ship-shape Shipyard home first sold almost exactly a year ago for a tiny bit more than $500K and now returns asking a slightly less tiny bit more than that, making it a rare two-time candidate for the Under $700K Club.
City talks subway to Bayview, Mission Bay, Wharf
Tentative subway proposals suggest tripling the present tunnel network. Yeah, thinks might be getting nuts around here pretty soon, if only we cross our fingers hard enough for funding to materialize.
Curbed Comparisons: What $3,100 rents you in SF
We run from one side of the city to the other to help you find the one true rental listing that best suits you, all for the same price across the board.
The only SF neighborhoods to get new liquor licenses will surprise you
San Francisco hasn't granted permission to sling hooch since the days when our grandfathers grandfathered in all of the existing licenses in 1939. Now a precious handful of new permissions will be doled out, but only to a select few neighborhoods.
High & Low: SF's most and least expensive homes
A realtor revisits her own old haunt of 10 years ago for a record-breaking sale, and a loft in Bayview upstages all expectations.
Big Bayview Edwardian starter home asks $769,000
A single-family home in Bayview landed on the market this week. It’s glorious. It’s big. And it will presumably sell for over asking.
So far this year, only 251 houses sold under $1 million in SF
That's the total yield for six-figure houses for the first eight months of 2016. Less than 40 percent of the housing stock on sale right now listed with an initial price of less than $1 million. Five years, ago, 75 percent of houses were six figures.
High & Low: SF's most and least expensive homes
Glen Park rakes in the dollars with hillside views, while the Bayview affords a fixer to a buyer with an eye for potential.
What $4,800 rents you in San Francisco right now
Lombard living, Castro cohabitation, Richmond residency, Bayview lifestyle, or Bernal Heights habitation?
Developer proposes tiny homes that fit like Legos
They're not much bigger than a shipping container, and the company says they can simply be stacked together to form a building, like some kind of alien hive technology. If the city agrees to turn over a Bayview parking lot, they'll prove it.
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Map: 14 houses under $700K in San Francisco
Cast your eyes south for the largest volume of homes priced at less than half of the city's median home price these days.
What $2,000/month rents you in SF right now
Bang for your buck in the Excelsior, Bayview's bay views, Tenderloin history, and Chinatown charm. Which one is right for you?
SFPD urge Pokémon Go safety precautions
In what is either a career high or all-time low point for the captain of Bayview Station (could go either way), the department issued safety guidelines for Pokemon GO players apt to stumble into real danger while hunting virtual varmints.
Ribbon cutting to mark end of massive Bayview Opera House renovation project
Although the real work broke ground in 2014, the bid to save the circa 1888 building from disrepair began back in 2007. From an initial grant of less than $200,000, the whole thing ended up costing $5.3 million.
Under $700K Club: Three budget-friendly San Francsico homes
The future of Bayview, the centerpiece of Van Ness Avenue, and the soaring ceilings of SOMA join the club.
Map: Rents won't rise, but stubbornly refuse to fall
Mapping SF rents, areas south of Market see prices higher than almost ever before, while areas very, very far south of Market hold out against price creep for cheaper living (as much as can be expected) as prices stagnate but refuse to really fall.
Renovated Bayview Victorian with cottage guest house asks $799,000
A downright adorable Victorian renovation has landed on the market at 1633 Oakdale, and it is a sight to behold. Among other thing, the interiors have been overhauled with pleasant (not jarring, as it often the case with recent makeovers) results.
San Francisco's most and least expensive home sales this week
It's time again for the High & the Low, a Curbed SF column chronicling the most and least expensive homes sold in San Francisco in the last seven days. So how far did the needle swing this week, and what did it hit?