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Howard Terminal: The Port’s Next Big Glow-Up?
After a few false starts (remember when Howard Terminal was supposed to be the new home of the A’s? womp womp), the Port has launched a fresh strategic plan for 2025-2030, and developers are very interested.
Curry for 3! point 2 million.
Stephen Curry, the superstare behind the record-breaking Warriors team, recently bought a modest $3.2 million home in Walnut Creek
Bay Area Has 3rd Worst Traffic in America
On a scale of 1-10, how depressingly familiar does this traffic look? With all the awards and recognition the Bay Area could've gotten, we managed to claim the bronze medal for Worst Traffic in America with an average of 75 hours wasted in traffic in 2015. Yay, go us.
Least Affordable Places to Live
And the award for The Most Unaffordable Place To Live goes to...the Bay Area. You are shocked, I can tell.
Least Affordable Places to Live
Tired of seeing the Bay Area on lists of "Least Affordable Places to Live" yet? Welp. That's too bad, because here's another one.
Everyone is Leaving the City
But they're not ending up where you might think. SF residents are indeed leaving the city in droves, but they're not going very far.
Pricey Cities Become Cheaper, Cheaper Cities Get Expensive
Covid has had an interesting effect on rental markets, with housing becoming cheaper in the country’s most expensive cities (San Francisco, New York City, Boston, San Jose, and Oakland to name the top 5), while getting pricier in more historically affordable areas. What’s going on?
More Renters Becoming Second-Home Owners
COVID-19 has caused a lot of folks to rethink their living arrangements. The logic seems to be, if nearly everyone is working from home now, why not move out of the city and into a home in the 'burbs where you can get more bang for your buck?
This Year's Housing Forecast
Rent prices will go up. If you're a renter living without that proverbial security blanket called rent control, I come bearing bad news: rents, which are currently rising at a 7-year high, will continue to rise faster than home values.
To the suburbs we go!
Once upon a time, millennials were willing to sacrifice a few stimulus checks (and then some) on each month's rent to live in a closet-sized apartment just to be part of the hustle and bustle of a city.
Pricey Cities Become Cheaper, Cheaper Cities Get Expensive
Covid has had an interesting effect on rental markets, with housing becoming cheaper in the country’s most expensive cities (San Francisco, New York City, Boston, San Jose, and Oakland to name the top 5), while getting pricier in more historically affordable areas.
How Weed is Pushing Out Oakland Artists
Before the legalization of recreational marijuana, industrial warehouse properties in Oakland were largely being used by artists to curate and host events or create large scale projects.
To stay in the city, or not to stay in the city?
With big companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Shopify setting the trend for employees to work from home forever-ish, potential home buyers are wondering why they're living in a pricey city to be close to work when work is actually just their dining table most days anyway.
Kaiser Project Gets Cancelled
In non-Corona-related news (does that even exist anymore?), Kaiser cancelled their plans to build out a 1.6 million square foot tower due to delays and the ever-increasing costs of construction and project-related fees
Credit Karma Moves to Oakland
In the midst of the biggest growing phases in downtown Oakland history, another tech giant is hopping on the bandwagon and making the move!
What happens when Americans stay in the same house forever?
Besides record low inventory levels and increasing lack of affordability for buyers?
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
FICO just announced a new scoring system that could change your credit score.
Happy Tax Day!
Is that like the biggest oxymoron or what? But we are in strange times, so let's just roll with it.