Category: Bay Area Cities

The already exorbitant cost of purchasing a new home in San Francisco may get even higher for first-time buyers thanks to new commission rules due to go into effect this summer.  Last week, a $418-million settlement agreement by the National Association of Realtors radically reshaped a key part of how homes will trade hands in the U.S. Soon, sellers will no longer have to pay commission fees to both buying and listing real estate agents involved in brokering the deal.  But what’s good for sellers may turn out to be…

Standing at the corner of Washington and Gough Streets, across from Lafayette Park and next door to the Spreckels Mansion, aka romance novelist Danielle Steel’s longtime home, the striking pink Beaux Arts tower at 2006 Washington Street is among the finest apartment houses in San Francisco. Completed in 1924, the 12-story building in posh Pacific Heights was designed by Conrad Meussdorffer, who also designed at least two more of the city’s most elegant and coveted apartment houses, the St. Regis apartments, just half a block away, and at the northeast…

The fitness instructor turned senior care worker has lived in his 709 Geary St. building since 2010 and has seen Veritas come and go before Ballast and Brookfield took over at the start of the year.  He compared the experience to being slowly exposed to poisonous gas over time. In his decade-plus living in the building, Valle said there were repeated plumbing and power issues on top of an elevator that routinely broke down. Just getting repair work started or unjust utility bill hikes reversed was a major hurdle, Valle…

If you’re a fan of Italian Victorian houses, a new listing in San Francisco’s historic Liberty Hill neighborhood—once home to billionaire Mark Zuckerberg—could be for you.  Built in 1880, the residence at 76 Liberty Street is the home of Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins, who purchased it in 2013 for $2.35 million. The rocker is now offering up his Gilded Age pad for $3.6 million. The price tag affords you access to 2,300 square feet of living space. And the eclectic interiors behind the highly detailed facade just might have you…

If you’re a fan of Italian Victorian houses, a new listing in San Francisco’s historic Liberty Hill neighborhood—once home to billionaire Mark Zuckerberg—could be for you. Built in 1880, the residence at 76 Liberty Street is the home of Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins, who purchased it in 2013 for $2.35 million. The rocker is now offering up his Gilded Age pad for $3.6 million. The price tag affords you access to 2,300 square feet of living space. And the eclectic interiors behind the highly detailed facade just might have you…