San Francisco Real Estate - Janice Lee

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What kinds of living situations do tech people consider? If you’re coming to San Francisco to work in tech, thinking about the city’s housing crisis will daunt you. The area’s reputation for having some of the highest rents in the world is well known. And if you’re not familiar with SF’s distinctive neighborhoods, it can be tricky to narrow your search to locations that would suit you best. Despite the challenges, this city offers all types of living situations from deluxe high-rise apartments to budget-friendly shared-living situations. If you cruise online classifieds, you’ll see that studios start at around $2,500 per month, with rents for larger spaces soaring higher and faster than the skyline. But in the last few years, a handful of entrepreneurs have come up with creative ways to tame the cost of housing in San Francisco, including new ideas of communal living and tiny apartments. You can even stay in a hotel. Or on a couch. Or in a mansion. Here are a few options th...

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Should you move to SF? Probably not—but maybe Thinking about making the move to SF, the greatest city in the world? The first thing you should know: SF is expensive. Second thing you should know: It’s small. These two factors will play major roles in your decision and life here, should you choose to accept it. If you’re coming from a small town, San Francisco will feel larger than life, and overwhelming. On the other hand, if you’re coming from a large metropolis such as New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, or even Philadelphia, SF will seem small. With a conservative amount of space—the city measures 46.87 square miles—you might be surprised to find that, for a city considered the capital of technology, it’s somewhat provincial. San Francisco is filled with extremes and contradictions, ranging from the microclimates to the economy. Multimillion dollar homes sit next to tents. Residents want to do everything to solve the city’s housing crisis except build more housing. Deniz...

The better deal in the long run depends on how long your run is San Francisco has always been a renter’s city. Even in recent years, when soaring real estate prices have increased the incentive to buy, the SF Planning Department estimates that nearly 65 percent of San Franciscans rent. The question for a newcomer arriving to the city after both home prices and rents ran away with the bank in recent years is: What makes more economic sense these days, renting or buying? That depends. In the short term, renting is always more affordable—otherwise why would anyone do it?—but after a certain number of years the returns diminish. How long that takes depends on a lot of predictions—or assumptions. In 2018, an increasing number of economic prognosticators suggest that SF is in a weird season when renters are actually getting the longer end of the stick. Here’s the breakdown: In July, real estate site Trulia declared that, for the first time since it began evaluating the relati...

San Francisco ranked fifth best city for tech jobs The Computing Technology Industry Association [CompTIA], a nonprofit trade association for people in the technology industry, ranked which American cities are best for jobs in the tech sector. Among the surprises, Silicon Valley hubs San Jose and San Francisco came in fourth and fifth, respectively, beneath cities in North Carolina and Texas. The report, “Tech Town USA,” compared 20 metro areas “where demand for tech workers is greatest,” and compared how great demand for jobs in those areas was weighed against the local cost of living. Despite the fact that Silicon Valley is, well, Silicon Valley, the top two spots on the list went to cities in North Carolina—Charlotte and Raleigh, respectively—with Austin coming in third. All California destinations ranked somewhere below. Here’s a look at some of the results: -  In this assessment, the best place to work in tech isn’t Silicon Valley but the Tar Heel State:  “Nort...

Bay Area home sales grinding down — could this be the top? As Bay Area home prices rise, more residents are unwilling or unable to meet sky-high down payments and mortgages. Home sales in the nine-county region slowed to their lowest point in August in seven years, as median sale prices again climbed double digits — 12 percent — to continue a record streak. Bay Area home sales dropped 10 percent from the previous year, according to a monthly report released Thursday by real estate data firm CoreLogic, but super-hot prices in Santa Clara, San Francisco, Alameda and San Mateo counties pushed the median sale price of existing homes in the region to $860,000. “This summer, we saw more buyers hesitate,” said CoreLogic analyst Andrew LePage. The number of homes sold in the region has fallen year over year for the last three consecutive months, he said. This summer’s activity was the slowest June-through-August period in seven years. LePage attributed the decline to a lack of afford...