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Real Estate Sector

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    The Culture of Foreclosure Auctions

    In this week's feature story, "The Dispossessed," several real estate investors who attended a foreclosure auction declined to give their names. Real estate investors who buy foreclosed property after all, don't have the best public reputation -- one homeowner interviewed for the story called them " ... More >>

  • News

    February 29, 2012

    America's Cup: Deal Nearly Funded Race with Pricey Condos

    In this week's feature story, "The Dispossessed," several real estate investors who attended a foreclosure auction declined to give their names. Real estate investors who buy foreclosed property after all, don't have the best public reputation -- one homeowner interviewed for the story called them " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Embarcadero Center Threatened to Sue City Over Occupy Encampment

    Embarcadero Center: Occupiers holiday ice show = "disastrous."​The Hyatt Regency and Vitale hotels complained of foul camp conditions, "sexual harassment," and an employee getting coffee thrown on him by OccupiersThe 99 percent might wage war with drum circles, slogans, and tent cities, but the 1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    City Prepares to Sell Land at 30 Cents on the Dollar

    Clubhouses are one thing. But condos? ​"Doing well by doing good" is a notion that always churns up feelings of ambivalence. So does city land-use. And while the city hopes to do good by selling a parcel of land to the Boys and Girls Club for a clubhouse at not quite 30 percent of its assessed val ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Michelle Le Update: Missing Student Case Now a Homicide Investigation

    Michelle Le was set to graduate from nursing school next year​UPDATE: Police are now telling reporters that all signs point to homicide in the case of Michelle Le, the missing nursing student. Police released as statement, saying after extensive interviews and forensic investigations of her abando ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 25, 2011

    Plate Glass and Concrete

    Michelle Le was set to graduate from nursing school next year​UPDATE: Police are now telling reporters that all signs point to homicide in the case of Michelle Le, the missing nursing student. Police released as statement, saying after extensive interviews and forensic investigations of her abando ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Investors From Mumbai, Houston, L.A., Behind $2.33B purchase of State Buildings

    Meet the new landlord​The California Public Utilities Commission's San Francisco headquarters is among 11 state buildings that will soon be owned by a consortium made up of investment groups hailing from Houston, Los Angeles and Mumbai, the state Department of General Services Reported today.The b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Last Call for the Chinatown Night Market

    Luis ChongSmaller than some night markets, but a good source for boba teas and knickknacks.​October 9 is the last scheduled evening for the Chinatown Night Market Fair. This small night market pales in comparison to the huge multiblock events of Vancouver, Hong Kong, mainland China, and many o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    Washington Post Uncovers Six 'Top Secret' Government Contractors in San Francisco

    ​The Washington Post today rolled out its eagerly awaited investigative project, "Top Secret America." The multimedia production -- including video, databases, an interactive map, and a series of stories by Post aces Dana Priest and William M. Arkin -- attempts to catalog the massive intelligence ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Report: Plan to Sell off State Buildings Will Cost Taxpayers Billions

    But there are many bad ideas to go 'round...​Investigation reveals plan to patch budget shortfall by selling California buildings includes hidden deal-sweeteners that gouge taxpayersIn March we reported that the state of California fired a San Francisco official who protested a plan to raise money ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Unlike Pleasanton, San Francisco Keeps its Anti-Housing Laws Off the Books

    When it comes to quelling housing development, there's the law and there's the law...​Pleasanton city fathers spent this week in conniption fits after a Superior Court judge ruled that the city can't cap its number of housing units at 29,000. Pleasanton now faces a choice of halting all commercial ... More >>

  • News

    August 19, 2009

    S.F. man tries selling his condo on Twitter

    When it comes to quelling housing development, there's the law and there's the law...​Pleasanton city fathers spent this week in conniption fits after a Superior Court judge ruled that the city can't cap its number of housing units at 29,000. Pleasanton now faces a choice of halting all commercial ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    'How's Business?' San Francisco Builder: 'What Business?' -- Home Construction Totals Hit Bottom, Start to Dig

    The statistics for home-building in 2008 are in -- and, like receiving the red pen-strewn remnants of a test you figured you'd botched, it hurts ever that much more to be tangibly informed of bad news you already knew. According to the California Building Industry Association, the 65,380 permits iss ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2009

    Houseboats? Houseboats!

    The statistics for home-building in 2008 are in -- and, like receiving the red pen-strewn remnants of a test you figured you'd botched, it hurts ever that much more to be tangibly informed of bad news you already knew. According to the California Building Industry Association, the 65,380 permits iss ... More >>

  • News

    June 4, 2008

    SF Weekly Letters

    The statistics for home-building in 2008 are in -- and, like receiving the red pen-strewn remnants of a test you figured you'd botched, it hurts ever that much more to be tangibly informed of bad news you already knew. According to the California Building Industry Association, the 65,380 permits iss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2008

    Breaking Up: Now Even More Awkward And Painful!

    The statistics for home-building in 2008 are in -- and, like receiving the red pen-strewn remnants of a test you figured you'd botched, it hurts ever that much more to be tangibly informed of bad news you already knew. According to the California Building Industry Association, the 65,380 permits iss ... More >>

  • News

    January 9, 2008

    Readers Respond to Article on SF's New Seismic Standards, or Lack Thereof

    The statistics for home-building in 2008 are in -- and, like receiving the red pen-strewn remnants of a test you figured you'd botched, it hurts ever that much more to be tangibly informed of bad news you already knew. According to the California Building Industry Association, the 65,380 permits iss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2007

    SF Gets Tough On Smoking In Parks: It's The Quality Of Life Crimes, Not The Quantity

    The statistics for home-building in 2008 are in -- and, like receiving the red pen-strewn remnants of a test you figured you'd botched, it hurts ever that much more to be tangibly informed of bad news you already knew. According to the California Building Industry Association, the 65,380 permits iss ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 8, 2007

    Glengarry Glen Ross

    Despite Actors Theatre's unremarkable set, David Mamet's script is foolproof

  • Calendar

    June 20, 2007

    The Sims: Student Edition

    Despite Actors Theatre's unremarkable set, David Mamet's script is foolproof

  • News

    February 2, 2005

    Reason to Question

    Is the Bay Guardian's lawsuit against SF Weekly connected to Bruce B. Brugmann's unfortunate business judgments?

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Hike for History Buffs

    Barbary Coast Trail

  • News

    November 19, 2003

    Arrested Development

    Mayor Brown is pushing for quick approval of a Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment plan that gives a lot to homebuilding giant Lennar, and not nearly enough to the city or the shipyard's neighbors

  • News

    November 12, 2003

    The Looking-Glass Campaign

    For Gavin Newsom and Matt Gonzalez, ideological labels may be misleading, or even drawkcab

  • Calendar

    August 6, 2003

    Rite of Night

    For Gavin Newsom and Matt Gonzalez, ideological labels may be misleading, or even drawkcab

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    The World According to Bechtel

    There are well-connected companies. Then there's Bechtel.

  • News

    January 30, 2002

    Legends in Our Own Minds

    A new report shows the housing shortage wasn't caused by the dot-com boom -- but by lack of housing construction

  • News

    May 30, 2001

    Axing Permission

    Everyone who needs an affordable apartment loses when NIMBYs get to appeal housing permits to the Board of Supervisors

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best Realtor

    Anne Heller

  • News

    February 28, 2001

    A Primer on Housing

    See the supervisors posture. See them learn. See them approve housing.

  • News

    November 1, 2000

    Disaster Plans

    Face it -- Props K and L both stink as ways to manage growth. But we have another option.

  • News

    September 13, 2000

    Past Imperfect

    Herb Caen-inspired nostalgia is no substitute for dealing practically with the dot-com boom

  • News

    August 9, 2000

    The Case for Ending Rent Control

    Herb Caen-inspired nostalgia is no substitute for dealing practically with the dot-com boom

  • News

    August 18, 1999

    Welcome Home

    How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs

  • News

    May 6, 1998

    Downtown's Fairy Godmother

    Doris Ward, San Francisco's assessor, is tossing around commercial tax breaks as if they were fairy dust. It's costing the city at least $100 million a year.

  • News

    October 8, 1997

    Dog Bites

    Doris Ward, San Francisco's assessor, is tossing around commercial tax breaks as if they were fairy dust. It's costing the city at least $100 million a year.

  • News

    May 10, 1995

    The Last Tycoon

    Walter Shorenstein's skyscrapers shaped San Francisco. His cash configured City Hall. Publicly, he's pristine. But there's more than meets the eye to the man behind the megaliths.

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