In San Francisco’s frantic real estate market, even “average” houses are going for 40% over asking and selling in the first week.
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• Jessica Blough
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The San Francisco Standard
• Jessica Blough
In San Francisco’s frantic real estate market, even “average” houses are going for 40% over asking and selling in the first week.
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• Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler
Plus: The resignation of Pretrial Services’ leader, the mayor’s office gets a new staffer, and the departure of one of Power Play’s writers.
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• Jessica Blough
Property owners and policymakers approved a plan this week to extend the bounds of the Downtown SF Partnership, which manages street cleaning and activations in the area.
The San Francisco Standard
• Anya Schultz
Restraining orders, subpoenas, defamation threats — Michael “Mickey” Gerold has turned the courts on his accusers while SFPD’s investigation into him drags on.
The San Francisco Standard
• Kevin V. Nguyen
Yellowstone REI seized a piece of San Francisco’s largest housing complex through foreclosure and pledged to “realize the long-term vision.”
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• Natallie Rocha
Small businesses are turning to AI-generated signs and menus to save money. It’s not going over well with customers.
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• Sara Deseran
A viral sign from a Bay Area restaurant has reignited the debate over children, boundaries, and who's really to blame when the chopsticks start flying.
The San Francisco Standard
• Garrett Leahy
SB 1246 would require AV companies to move stalled cars — or face fines. Waymo and the robotaxi industry aren't happy about it.
The San Francisco Standard
• Tim Kawakami
The team culture coach Natalie Nakase and GM Ohemaa Nyanin have built with Golden State is strong and worth protecting.
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• John Shea
Twenty-seven years after Orlando Cepeda was enshrined in Cooperstown, the team is sending a delegation of nearly 40 people to celebrate Jeff Kent’s induction.
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• Stephanie Gerson
Get a dose of music, fashion, film, and fun with lively night markets, the marathon, special movie screenings, and more.
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• Emily Landes
The family behind Filoli Gardens owned this home for decades. Will newly minted AI millionaires pony up to create their own generational compound?
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• Anya Schultz
The Board of Supervisors will demand answers from SFPD on the city’s handling of sexual assault cases.
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• Jessica Blough
The Recreation and Parks Department is close to issuing a permit allowing Outside Lands organizers a second weekend of music in the park, plus three free concerts.
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• Kerry Crowley
Buster Posey has less than two weeks to trade players ahead of the Aug. 3 MLB deadline.
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• Jane Kenny
Kaitlyn Chen and Janelle Salaun are anchoring the WNBA’s most productive bench and Golden State enters the All-Star break at 19-8.
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• Sam Mondros
Jensen and Lori Huang’s matching gift to the university anchors a new college of art, architecture, and design on the former California College of the Arts site.
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• Michael McLaughlin
Plans to open a restaurant on Market Street have been in the works since 2020.
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• Jennifer Wadsworth
As Kaiser and its therapists clash over AI, a new complaint says an algorithm, not a clinician, is deciding patients’ care in seconds.
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• Becky Duffett
Frances and Octavia chef-owner Melissa Perello and pastry chef Melissa Loar have partnered on Lorella, a brick-and-mortar spinoff of their sell-out Saturbake pop-ups.
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• Jessica Blough
For downtown’s recovery, the city needs to fill both small and large vacancies downtown. For small bookstores, that means an “apex predator” could be shopping around.
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• Sara Deseran
An obsessed Mexico City native joins us on a quest to find SF’s best, uncovering everything from coffee-spiked salsa to freshly pressed tortillas along the way.
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• Anya Schultz
A 2016 mandate ordered public reporting on every case. The department buried it until The Standard came asking.
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• George Kelly
The “Nobody’s Gonna Know” tee pokes fun at branding rules imposed by the governing body of soccer.
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• Paolo Bicchieri
Florecita Panaderia is upgrading from its alleyway space to a full café — with a coffee program to match its seasonally inspired conchas.
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• Kerry Crowley
Rookies have already reported to Santa Clara and Kyle Shanahan’s team is set to begin practicing this weekend.
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• Anya Schultz
Fewer investigators, more reliance on victims, and a stalled pipeline to prosecutors.
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• Madeline Taub
Banana-flavored drinks are showing up all over San Francisco beverage menus in lattes, chai, matcha, and a $45 sea urchin cocktail.
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• Anya Schultz
SFPD cleared 14% of rape cases last year — half the national rate. The Standard found that kits get tested fast, then cases get quietly shelved.
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• Paolo Bicchieri
Born from a family crisis and a love of late-night slices, New York-style pizza pop-up Fatty Natty is putting down roots in the neighborhood where it all began.