Resolutions for others: Suggested actions for our city’s prominent men and women

January is typically a time for resolving to eat less, drink less, earn more, change jobs, improve the relationship with one’s children or parents, or similar things. Those a... Read More

Real Estate

The year ahead: Previewing SF real estate

Why is it so expensive to own here? What are the hot neighborhoods of 2014?

By John Zipperer

After a year of record-setting prices, growing concern over affordability, continued city population growth, and fragile but continuing economic expansion, the Marina Times checked... Read More

Real Estate

The data-driven buyer

By John Zipperer

Home buyers have many approaches to picking their homes and neighborhoods. They consult friends and family who know the area. The search Zillow. They talk to real estate agents. Th... Read More

Real Estate

2013, A year at the top: What really happened to San Francisco real estate this year?

By John Zipperer

A year ago, as San Francisco headed into 2013, its residential real estate market was firing on all cylinders and — sticking with the auto metaphor — there were no brakes. Ther... Read More

Northsider

Light ’em up

By John Zipperer

HOLIDAY UNION STREET TREATS In some climes, December holidays are a time for snowmen and snow forts — snow being the operative element. But in San Francisco’s Northside, we... Read More

2013 in review

Boating billionaires, grumbling grassroots, and a crime-fighting tyke

By John Zipperer

When 2012 was coming to a close, you might not have been able to predict what was going to happen in 2013. But you would have been safe if you expected the new year’s events ... Read More

Pets

My psychopathic pet

By John Zipperer

Forget Spot or Professor Fluffball; meet Hannibal Licker. Earlier this year, the media had a field day writing about a study from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and... Read More

Northsider

New ideas and people abound

By John Zipperer

NEW GREENS TOP CHEF Annie Somerville, executive chef at trendy gourmet vegetarian restaurant Greens in Fort Mason Center, announced the hiring of Jessica Mackay as the restaurant&#... Read More

Business

The budget cliff

There are reasons to be hopeful, and they all have to do with money

By John Zipperer

If you and your beloved wanted to celebrate your mid-October anniversary with a drink or dinner at the Cliff House, then you got a rude awakening when you pulled up to the restaura... Read More

Real Estate

A residential and commercial real estate report for the Bay Area

By John Zipperer

There has been a 96 percent increase in home prices from the trough of the recession until today in the San Francisco-Oakland area. That, according to a study from RealtyTrac, puts... Read More

Features

The scary truth about Halloween

By John Zipperer

At the end of this month, people young and old will dress up and go to parties, or stay at home and hand out treats to visitors, or pull the shades and watch TV with the lights dow... Read More

Travel/Sports

America’s Cup half full?

A postmortem on the City’s experience hosting the world’s oldest sporting competition

By John Zipperer

Not since Mitt Romney traveled to Britain to tell our closest allies that they were going to screw up the London Olympics has a major sporting event been linked so closely to a cit... Read More

Real Estate

Oh, just give me a home. Or not.

By John Zipperer

One of the few initiatives of President George W. Bush’s administration that tried to honestly help people who were not already well off was its push to increase homeownershi... Read More

Business

Strike three

By John Zipperer

If you follow Facebook feeds for any length of time, sooner or later you will read some inane political debate on the Facebook page of one of your friends or contacts. A couple mon... Read More

News

Planning Commission KO’s PFE on Lombard

By John Zipperer

San Francisco’s Planning Com-mission voted for the second time in four years to prevent Pet Food Express from opening a new store in the vacant location at 2460 Lombard Stree... Read More

John Zipperer