Victorian goes for baroque
Real estate agents usually use terms like “unique” to address some defect in a house. A unique location might be right across the street from a project or on a fault line but in the case of this San...
View ArticleScott Peterson’s house for sale?
Here’s a rare opportunity to own San Quentin, one of the most prime properties in the San Francisco Bay Area. Owned by the state of California, this 432-acre gated community has obstructed, though...
View ArticleBay Area horror flick producer is a nightmare for investors
Jim McConville A Bay Area man who helped produce a horror flick and called himself the “West Coast Donald Trump” was allegedly behind an elaborate scam that has left investors here and other parts of...
View ArticleThe Full House address — 1709 Broderick? Party of Five digs for sale…
The milkman and the paperboy might think the Full House clan lived in one of the Painted Ladies off Alamo Square park, but it seems in the buzz of the Party of Five house going on the market soon,...
View Article$839K SF home screams for attention
Courtesy of Redfin Courtesy of Redfin Every so often Curbed SF runs a “That’s Rather Hideous” photo gallery, a hilarious look decor-challenged SF homes advertised in real estate listings. The latest...
View ArticleWhat $14 million gets you in SF …
A “single family” home, of course! Actually, this remodeled 6,500-square-footer at 2342 Broadway in Pacific Heights could house half the families living in San Francisco (and comfortably we might add)....
View ArticleVallejo squatters take everything but the kitchen sink
Home on C Street in Vallejo (Courtesy of CBS5) (Courtesy of CBS5) A few days before Christmas, real estate agent Mike Muters discovered squatters living in a foreclosed home in Vallejo. Rather than...
View ArticleTurning a flying aluminum can into a Malibu mansion
Site plan courtesy of Studio of Environmental Architecture A decades-old junked jetliner will soon be the dream home of California woman. Francie Rehwald wanted something curvy, “feminine,” and...
View ArticleUC President Yudof vs. ‘landlord from hell’
In 2009, UC workers protested at Yudof’s home. Afterwards, the university spent more than $100,000 on security. Talk about a tenant-landlord dispute on steroids. The Bay Citizen probed the battle...
View ArticleAlbion Castle’s $10K wooden musical toilet
(Courtesy of Reflex Imaging) No castle would be complete without a throne. Such is the case with the Albion Castle, a Norman-style stone structure in San Francisco built in the late 1800s. A mountain...
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