Monthly Archives: July 2017

Bay Area housing: One square foot is worth a month’s rent

Oh, the pain, the pain — and the cost, the cost — of renting a Bay Area apartment. A luxury condo sold last month in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood for $4.35 million. It’s a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath, 1,960-square-foot unit lined … Continue reading

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Sacramento, emerging from Bay Area’s shadow, becoming booming urban alternative

Few people would characterize basketball commentator and former player Charles Barkley as a restrained public speaker. So when he told a local Sacramento news reporter in 2008 that the state’s capital was still a “cow town,” it seemed sure to … Continue reading

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Bay Area real estate: A square foot is worth a month’s rent

Oh, the pain, the pain — and the cost, the cost — of renting a Bay Area apartment. A luxury condo sold last month in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood for $4.35 million. It’s a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath, 1,960-square-foot unit lined … Continue reading

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Thompson International Professionals to Acquire Development Site in SF/Oakland Bay Area to Develop 32 …

SAN FRANCISCO and OAKLAND, Calif., July 10, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Housing developers and multifamily property management firm Thompson International Professionals is expanding into mixed use commercial real estate development with a series of acquisitions and development projects slated to … Continue reading

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Facebook addresses Silicon Valley’s affordable housing crisis

Facebook is to build its own “village” of 1,500 homes for workers struggling to pay soaring rents as the housing crisis in Silicon Valley deepens. The social networking company has submitted plans to the local council to create a new … Continue reading

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