Could single-family homes be the answer to the affordable housing crisis? (Photo: Housingwire.com)
Rentals in single-family homes and small multifamily buildings are a viable solution for helping the significant lack of affordable homes in the housing market. But in order for this to happen, these three policies need to change.
They keep getting taller and skinnier: The engineering tricks behind the world’s grandest skyscrapers. (Photo: Curbed.com/© James Ewing)
View of One World Trade Center from New Jersey. Standard concrete has a compressive strength of 3,000-5,000 psi (pounds per square inch). All the concrete used during the construction…Read More
Looking for quick, cheap artisan thin-crust pizza? Check out Project Pie in Walnut Creek. (Photo: Diablo/Yelp)
Get your pizza fix in Walnut Creek.
Killer bees in Lafayette? It’s true. (Photo: San Francisco Chronicle/Nathaniel Y. Downes)
An Africanized breed of honeybees — sometimes known as “killer bees” because of their swarming, aggressive and deadly nature when a colony is threatened — has found its way to the Bay Area for the first time, researchers say. The bees were found in a Lafayette subdivision called Reliez Valley, near the southeast side of Briones Regional Park, by UC San Diego researchers who have been tracking the bees’ movement throughout the state. […] the bees had been detected only as far north as Mariposa County in California’s more inland Central Valley, but they were probably attracted by the Bay Area’s warming temperatures. While the bees can pose a threat of danger to humans, Kohn said, people should not be too concerned. An…Read More
Homeowners: Here’s a handy home maintenance checklist to do this fall. (Photo: Houzz.com)
Prevent winter damage and boost energy efficiency by ticking off these to-dos before cold weather hits
Love homes designed by influential California developer Joseph Eichler? Find where those currently on the market are located. (Photo: sf.curbed.com)
Photo via Zillow Almost 70 years after the first of them were constructed in the suburbs of San Francisco, homes built by the hugely influential California developer Joseph Eichler are…Read More
Check out San Francisco’s smallest (and possibly most depressing) apartment for rent at just 132 square feet. (Photo: sf.curbed.com)
Earlier today, we showed you the luxe San Francisco apartments that $10,000 per month will rent. Now, we bring you the other end of the rental spectrum. A $900 studio…Read More
Cap off September with a new home: Check out Pacific Union’s list of open houses. (Photo: Flickr/Mark Moz, https://flic.kr/p/iQncn8)
Cap off September with a new home: Check out Pacific Union’s list of open houses. (Photo: Flickr/Mark Moz, https://flic.kr/p/iQncn8)
A new survey of millennial renters dishes on when they plan to buy homes. http://pacunion.us/1gUAR…
A new survey of millennial renters dishes on when they plan to buy homes. http://pacunion.us/1gUARCZ
Pacific Union is ranked as the third-largest residential real estate brokerage in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times.
The San Francisco Business Times recently ranked Pacific Union as the third largest residential real estate brokerage in the Bay Area, the latest industry accolade our company has received thus far in 2015. #inc5000 #pacificunion #realtrends
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