Looks like we’re not going to conquer Brisbane, after all, folks…at least according to Chuck Nevius, who writes in his column that the idea is off the table. Though the confrontation between Brisbane’s Mayor and the Board of Supervisors at this week’s meeting made for some political tension – SFHAC has it queued up and ready to go if you’re interested in catching up.
Back to San Francisco. Picture yourself as a person who can spend a casual million or several on a condo in town. You have a concierge, a valet, a gym, a “yoga terrace” (because a regular terrace wasn’t gonna cut it) and a lounge at your fingertips. But! There’s no washer or dryer. That’s the case in one high-end condo building in the city – as CBS Local notes with what I assume is a barely concealed chortle, the designer of that particular building is the very same behind the Leaning Tower of Millennium.
Other potential washes: Things are not looking so good for Airbnb in court at the moment. As expected, the home sharing firm sued the city after the Board of Supervisors passed legislation that would hold platforms accountable for listings that obviously violate the city’s homesharing laws. Airbnb cried foul by asserting that the city is trying to regulate content of a web site – a premise that the judge on the case doesn’t seem to buy.
Tech in general may be a huge employer in the city, but if you think this is Startupville, you might be wrong. That’s according to HowMuch.net via Curbed, which says the portion of the workforce employed by a company less than a year old is actually higher in Madera, and even higher than that in Texas.
And though we like to blame tech drawing people to the area for high costs, marijuana could be a more appropriate scapegoat depending on our next election, at least if the findings of a study in Colorado are any indication. Results in that study indicated that recreational marijuana sales may have bumped housing costs some 8 percent in the years after legalization.
Finally, the Sunset is now the most popular neighborhood in real estate terms. Does that mean the Mission gets a break? Well, Curbed speculates that this apparent sales frenzy in that part of town may be more due to a decline in the market in other parts of town, so maybe, perhaps, could be.
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