SF real estate

SF real estate

Roy Lee, CEO of AI tech startup Cluely, which makes software for job interviews and work calls, told The New York Times that he leased eight apartments for employees in a recently-built luxury complex situated just a one-minute walk away from the office. The rents in the 16-story building range from $3,000 to $12,000 a month. "Going to the office should feel like you're walking to your living room, so we really, really want people close," Lee told The Times on Thursday.

1149 Foxworthy Avenue Google Street View A 2,072-square-foot two-unit house built in 1958 has changed hands. The spacious unit in the 1100 block of Foxworthy Avenue in San Jose was sold on Aug. 14, 2025 for $1,570,000 which represents a price per square foot of $758. This is a single-story duplex. Inside, there is one fireplace. The property occupies a sizable 9,600-square-foot lot.

The home was built in 2016 by Aidlin Darling Design, itself an award-winning venture. According to the company's website, Aidlin Darling Design was founded in 1998 by Joshua Aidlin and David Darling, who first "began the studio crafting furniture together in a San Francisco woodshop." Today, this firm is a highly successful producer of private and commercial properties, with notable work such as the Robert Mondavi Winery remodel, the Google Stores in both Williamsburg and Mountain View, and multiple stunning homes across California and beyond. This year, Aidlin Darling Design made Forbes list of " America's Best-in-State: Residential Architects."

San Francisco's pandemic retail apocalypse was already well underway when the three-story Union Square Uniqlo store closed in 2021, with that shopping district's H&M and The Gap having already fallen on their swords. (This was when we were still social distancing, and almost no one was eligible to get the COVID vaccine yet.) And things in Union Square would only get much worse from there.

The startup Motive, which makes software for managing vehicle fleets and recently closed a $150 million funding round, has taken a 40,000-square-foot sublease in the building, X's broker Mike Sample told SFGATE on Thursday. He confirmed that more than 700,000 square feet of space in X's old offices are still up for grabs. X and Motive's deal was first reported by the San Francisco Business Times, whose sources said that the startup would move in in phases, beginning with 25,000 square feet.

Originally, 1776 Green St. was an auto works garage, built in Classic Revival style by owner and builder Sven J. Sterner, with help from a carpenter named Charles M. Olson. A historic resource evaluation completed on the property by the San Francisco Planning Department revealed details of the building and its creators, pointing out though neither Sterner nor Olson was an architect, their design for 1776 Green St. has endured "with a high degree of its integrity."

This Kensington one-bedroom has some graceful details of the period such as a built-in niche with shelves alongside recent updates, including a renovated kitchen. It's on the fourth floor of 40 Tehama Street, a six-story, 75-unit brick elevator building. The apartment complex opened in 1939, according to the certificate of occupancy. The red-brick Streamline Moderne building detailed with vertical and horizontal lines of bricks was designed by busy architect firm Kavy & Kavovitt. Appointments at the time included Electrolux fridges, according to a contemporary ad.

Although the project was originally proposed to be a mixed-income building, financial constraints emerged amid a rocky housing market, said Mark MacDonald, the CEO of DM Development, a San Francisco-based firm specializing in mixed-use development and one of the community partners spearheading the project. MacDonald pointed to the capital markets in San Francisco slowing down post-pandemic, as well as skyrocketing interest rates and decreased investor interest, which is "why you don't really see any cranes in the sky in San Francisco now." Compounded with extended dialogue among the neighborhood and community, the permitting phase and entitlement process were lengthy, he said. But without SB 35, it would have taken even longer to get to groundbreaking.

Thuma's furniture is designed for easy assembly without tools, incorporating a Japanese joinery system that enhances sturdiness and style. The beds are made from upcycled wood.

The most visible example of downtown SF's post-COVID malaise was the Westfield San Francisco Centre, which lost its Nordstrom and its Bloomingdale's.

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