SF real estate

SF real estate

Fans of San Francisco's historic architecture, get ready: This story offers a tantalizing treat, as well as tragic disappointment. In 116 Cherry St. we have an example of architectural royalty: a preserved Willis Polk single-family home, one of this hallowed San Francisco architect's first commissions. But you can't own this home, because it flew off the market in less than a month - and the price it sold for could blow your mind.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The founder behind downtown San Francisco's sleeping pods has purchased another building to expand the operation. Brownstone Shared Housing made headlines for its $700-a-month sleeping pods. RELATED: Company that runs $700 a month sleeping pods in SF could face eviction for unpaid rent Although it was later found that they did not have the proper permitting, and were faced with an eviction notice.

The forecast predicts above-normal temperatures throughout the region, with the coldest periods likely in mid-December, early and late January, and early February. Precipitation will run below normal this winter, and snowfall will also be lighter than average-limited mainly to a few northern counties. The Almanac's snowiest windows for the region are mid-November, late January, and early February, though most Alabamians will see little more than a frost.

Those structures are - or were - earthquake shacks, also known as earthquake cottages or refugee cottages. With the help of the Army, the city built the shacks in the wake of the 1906 earthquake, which left 225,000 San Franciscans without homes. They placed the tiny, one-room cottages in city parks, and residents whose homes had been destroyed paid $2 a month to live in them. At one point, more than 16,000 people lived in the shacks - approximately three for every 250-square-foot dwelling.

SF-based developer Align Real Estate does, in fact, have a larger strategy to redevelop Safeway properties in the city and turn them into multi-story residential complexes with retail on the ground floor, including replacement Safeway stores. With Tuesday's announcement that Align, the same developer behind the project to redevelop the Fillmore Safeway property, was working to potentially redevelop the Ocean Beach Safeway in similar fashion, we surmised there could be a larger strategy at play.

With Rayse, agents are able to give their buyer and seller clients real-time insights into all of the things the agent is doing for the transaction. San Francisco agents manage some of the most complex transactions in the country, James Dwiggins, the Co-CEO of Rayse, said in a statement. Rayse ensures their work is visible, their value is clear, and their clients stay informed from start to finish.

Roy Lee, CEO of AI tech startup Cluely, which makes software for job interviews and work calls, told The New York Times that he leased eight apartments for employees in a recently-built luxury complex situated just a one-minute walk away from the office. The rents in the 16-story building range from $3,000 to $12,000 a month. "Going to the office should feel like you're walking to your living room, so we really, really want people close," Lee told The Times on Thursday.

1149 Foxworthy Avenue Google Street View A 2,072-square-foot two-unit house built in 1958 has changed hands. The spacious unit in the 1100 block of Foxworthy Avenue in San Jose was sold on Aug. 14, 2025 for $1,570,000 which represents a price per square foot of $758. This is a single-story duplex. Inside, there is one fireplace. The property occupies a sizable 9,600-square-foot lot.

The home was built in 2016 by Aidlin Darling Design, itself an award-winning venture. According to the company's website, Aidlin Darling Design was founded in 1998 by Joshua Aidlin and David Darling, who first "began the studio crafting furniture together in a San Francisco woodshop." Today, this firm is a highly successful producer of private and commercial properties, with notable work such as the Robert Mondavi Winery remodel, the Google Stores in both Williamsburg and Mountain View, and multiple stunning homes across California and beyond. This year, Aidlin Darling Design made Forbes list of " America's Best-in-State: Residential Architects."

San Francisco's pandemic retail apocalypse was already well underway when the three-story Union Square Uniqlo store closed in 2021, with that shopping district's H&M and The Gap having already fallen on their swords. (This was when we were still social distancing, and almost no one was eligible to get the COVID vaccine yet.) And things in Union Square would only get much worse from there.

Originally, 1776 Green St. was an auto works garage, built in Classic Revival style by owner and builder Sven J. Sterner, with help from a carpenter named Charles M. Olson. A historic resource evaluation completed on the property by the San Francisco Planning Department revealed details of the building and its creators, pointing out though neither Sterner nor Olson was an architect, their design for 1776 Green St. has endured "with a high degree of its integrity."