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Spec House In Russian Hill, Bought By Sam Altman For $27 Million, Declared a 'Lemon' In New Lawsuit
A house that notably sold well below a sky-high asking price in 2020, designed by a renowned SF architect but heavily renovated to the point that the developer was fined by preservationists, is now the subject of a new lawsuit because of its many reported defects. And it belongs to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Ryan Seacrest's Bay Area estate just hit the market for $22M
ST. HELENA, Calif. - An expansive and private Napa Valley estate owned by television and radio superstar Ryan Seacrest has hit the market for $22 million. The Tuscan-style renovated property, located on North Fork Crystal Springs Road in St. Helena, sits on more than 40 acres on the valley floor and offers sweeping mountain views.
Apple Funds Hundreds of New Affordable Homes in SF Bay Area
Apple is doing its part to create more affordable housing in what’s become one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the world by helping to launch a new fund that will advance affordable housing development. In a newsroom post today, Apple announced that it’s teaming up with the San...
Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
The number of single-family homes and condos in contract to be sold across San Francisco has dropped around 15 percent over the past month, including a 6 percent drop in the seasonally adjusted pace of sales over the past two weeks. At the same time, the average asking price per...
Oakland opens 100% affordable housing complex
Officials in Oakland on Tuesday celebrated the opening of a 100% affordable housing project designed for low-income and formerly incarcerated residents. The apartment complex at 1670 Seventh St., called The Black Panther, will house ground-floor businesses, with the upper levels consisting of homes with views of San Francisco Bay and the Oakland hills. It's only three blocks from the nearest BART station.
Is SF affordable housing now as easy as 1234 Great Highway?
Affordable-housing advocates and San Francisco officials say they are cautiously optimistic the next major Sunset district housing proposal will avoid the all-to-familiar and all-too-tumultuous roller coaster ride to fruition. After years of resistance from aggrieved neighbors, an affordable housing project on Irving Street has finally broken ground this summer. Next up, The City is funding a plan to convert what is now a Motel 6 at 1234 Great Highway into...
Streamlined Housing Projects Dashboard
This webpage provides an overview of housing projects submitted to the Planning Department that do not require a Planning Commission hearing prior to approval because of recent changes to State or local law. Note that this is a beta dashboard. While generally accurate, it is under continued development and not yet warranted as complete.
CAPE Analytics and EagleView Embark on Long-Term Imagery Collaboration
(Image source: Eagleview website.) CAPE Analytics (Palo Alto, Calif.), a provider of AI-powered property insights for insurance and real estate risk, has announced a collaboration with EagleView, a provider geospatial technology, to bolster access to current and historical, high-quality, high-resolution, aerial imagery. The long-term joint initiative between CAPE Analytics and EagleView expands the coverage, recency, history, and resiliency of CAPE’s market-leading property analytics across the United States for use in insurance underwriting and rating, as well as real estate lending, according to a statement from CAPE.
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