San Francisco Rents Hit an All-Time High, No Sign of Letting Up

As you may have noticed, we follow San Francisco’s wild rent prices rather obsessively.

San Francisco has been the country’s leader for some time in overall rent paid and in growth of rents, and it looks like that growth didn’t …

Forbes: San Francisco Is the Absolute Worst City for Renters

Today Forbes released its ranking of the best and worst markets for renters, and whaddaya know, three of the top ten are in the Bay Area.

San Francisco comes in first (by which we mean dead last), with a 12.8 …

Apartment rents resume upward march in Q1: Here’s how much

New unit supply doesn’t seem to be a match for still-raging job growth: After taking a breather in the last few months of 2014, Silicon Valley’s apartment market stepped on the gas in the first quarter of the year, according …

Private Funds Look to Deploy Dry Powder—But in the Bay Area?

The Bay Area’s job growth continues to propel a wave of real estate capital hunting for investments into the market, and property experts don’t see it receding anytime soon.

Private equity real estate funds have fueled a good portion of …

Ron Zeff: Fundamentally Strong

The rise of the renter nation will keep the multifamily development pipeline busy for a while longer.

THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE ‘Q’ – THE REGISTRY’S PRINT PUBLICATION – IN JANUARY 2015

Ron Zeff is founder and CEO …

Yikes: SF Closes In on a Year of Median Rents Topping NY’s

The median asking rent for a one-bedroom in San Francisco dropped slightly to land at $3,400 in March (down from $3,460 in February), according to rental website Zumper’s latest rent report.

Even with that small dip, it was still enough …

L.A. company grabs Peninsula apartment building near Google, Box projects

A real estate group that specializes in housing extended-stay corporate workers shelled out $84 million Tuesday for a Redwood City apartment building a few miles from new projects by Google and Box.
Singapore-based Mapletree Group paid $780 a square foot …