For many years, housing costs in San Francisco have been among the most expensive in he world. Analysts describe this situation as a matter of supply and demand: There just aren't enough housing units for all the people who want to live here. More recently, another...
In this blog post, we are going to briefly explore one of the most controversial topics in Bay Area real estate: zoning. Yes, zoning -- municipal regulations governing land use -- may seem rather boring on the surface, but the subject touches on hot-button questions...
If you are a resident of California, whether you own the home in which you live or you rent a house or apartment from someone else, there are still laws that pertain to your residence and those laws are designed to protect you. There is a California Department of Real...
Zoning laws are used to determine how land can be used in certain areas. As you can imagine, this can have a significant impact on the value of the property and to what use it can be put. For that reason, property owners and those buying or selling property in the San...