The riches of Amador County

Nestled in the Sierra Nevada’s historic Gold Rush region, Amador County is a year-round playground — ski and snowboard in the winter; raft white water and pick luscious fru... Read More

Caring For Our Kids

Tips for choosing the best summer camp

By Liz Farrell

As soon as we get to March, it starts to feel like a sprint to the end of the school year, which can only mean summer is right around the corner. I am reminded of this from the bar... Read More

Wellness

Vertical Method offers outstanding standing workout

By Julie Mitchell

When you walk into the compact gym at the Vertical Method in Cow Hollow, there is so much equipment hanging from the ceiling and arranged in 12 individual stations, it can feel a b... Read More

Real Estate Investor

Office space is dear and expensive

Is it time to head to Oakland or pray for a recession?

By John Zipperer

Stuck in the middle of a report on the performance of San Francisco’s office real estate in the fourth-quarter of 2014 is this tidbit: 2014 sales volume was 64 percent higher... Read More

Real Estate

Marketing your home in 2015

Even in a hot market, your home might need some easy and common-sense help so it can attract the right buyer

By Stephanie Saunders Ahlberg

When speaking with my real estate colleagues around the country, there seems to be a common thread: lack of inventory. However, that does not mean that all properties will sell. Wh... Read More

News Briefs

SF Housing 1940&Ndash;2014

The city’s housing shortage becomes much clearer when taken in the context of housing construction trends over the past 74 years. In the 1980s and 1990s, the number of new ho... Read More

News Briefs

Hottest Neighborhoods

In 2013, the hipster-afflicted Mission district was rated one of the country’s “hottest” neighborhoods, but in 2015, it is replaced in the top 10 list by Daly Cit... Read More

News Briefs

Airbnb Law In Effect

At the beginning of February, San Francisco’s so-called “Airbnb law” went live, legalizing short-term rentals under certain conditions and imposing insurance and ... Read More

News Briefs

Commercial Strong In S.F.

Office real estate in San Francisco continues to perform well, helped by constrained supply — even with all of the new construction under way — and the same booming economy tha... Read More

News Briefs

Rents Record

A shortage of supply and continued booming economy combined to produce another month of record-high rent rates in San Francisco, according to Zumper.com. “San Francisco’... Read More

News Briefs

Market-Rate Housing Moratorium?

Supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener have staked out different positions on proposals by a neighborhood group to impose a moratorium on market-rate housing in the Mission. The... Read More

Real Estate Today

Get ready for spring real estate madness

By Carole Isaacs

Spring is traditionally the time when the real estate market heats up. Considering how inventory has remained extremely low during the winter months, many buyers were “out of... Read More

Home & Garden

Get out in the garden

By Julia Strzesieski

Will March come barreling in like a lion and appropriately leave like a lamb? Our rainy season appeared to be off to a great start at the end of last year, but then January rolled ... Read More

The Best of Books

What you’re reading

By Brian Pettus

Books Inc. best-seller list The Girl on the Train: A Novel, by Paula Hawkins City of Thieves: A Novel, by David Benioff Cool Gray City of Love, by Gary Kamiya Boys in the Boat: Ni... Read More

Weekend Traveler

Think outside of the wine box: Head to Lodi

By Lynette Majer

California wine country” usually brings to mind Napa, Sonoma, and the Central Coast. But just 85 miles northeast from San Francisco is one of the largest and oldest (since 18... Read More

Issue March 2015