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...Owners of some of San Francisco’s iconic buildings such as the Transamerica Pyramid and Uber’s Mission Bay headquarters have petitioned the city to lower their tax burden as the value of their properties...
...Only about 17 per cent of Schwab’s client accounts were located in California at the end of 2022. More than 40 per cent of its $25.7bn in residential real-estate loans are on properties in California....
...A future with dwindling numbers of children is one many cities, including San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC, are grappling with....
...The tavern is located in La Latina, a busy nightlife district, and its owner, Francisco Rosas, is a vermouth producer himself....
...Sitting in San Francisco at the beginning of Covid, Rabois and his husband did a “reference call” about Miami with Abraham, who talked them into moving....
...Increasingly, however, they have an incentive to exploit the booming resale market: as of last month, San Francisco metropolitan rents were 7.2 per cent lower than at the beginning of the pandemic, according...
...Spurred by basement-level interest rates, a soaring stock market and the biggest year for IPOs since the dotcom bubble, luxury property is leading a real estate recovery in San Francisco....
...Patrick McGee in San Francisco 2....
...And then I think Twitter needs to be much more even handed. It currently has a strong left bias, because it’s based in San Francisco....
...It was simply because we were located in Alameda County in California. And but they had no rationale....
...Over in San Francisco, where BGI was headquartered, the rank-and-file view was that BlackRock consisted of a bunch of knuckle-dragging Wall Street bond traders who had built their business through acquisitions...
...she says down the line from San Francisco. “But it wasn’t until I had my first child that I really started to look at the ingredients in those products I was using....
...Priya Bajoria, a consultant at Publicis Sapient in New York, says she and her friends took daily screenshots of their views, sharing walks from Sydney to San Francisco across a WhatsApp group....
...Richard Waters in San Francisco 3....
...Uber’s super-app quest With its mainstay ride-hailing business under regulatory scrutiny, Uber is looking to expand, modelling itself after Asian “super-apps”: in Mexico it offers bank cards, in San Francisco...
...at the University of Southern California....
...He had found a farm in Chile situated “at the toe of a fjord that cost what a garage would cost in San Francisco”. The asking price was $35 a hectare: there were 17,000ha of temperate rainforest....
...It also adds up to a lot of traffic and a serious housing problem: an estimated 7,500 people are homeless on the streets of San Francisco....
...., area and getting his MBA at the University of Utah, he’d come out to California in the late 1970s and never left. His first job was at chipmaker Intel, one of the Valley’s pioneers....
...South Beach is the smarter of the two neighbourhoods, facing San Francisco Bay to the east and the financial district to the north....
...He moved here from Brooklyn, New York and enrolled at the City College of San Francisco to study computer science....
...San Francisco, where every inch of roadway is known intimately....
...It turned out to be the high-water mark of California’s rent-control movement: East Palo Alto, along with a handful of major centres such as San Francisco, adopted the protections....
...property tax on a $1m home in the area is about $6,800 ● San Francisco is the least affordable city in California, with only 11 per cent of residents able to afford a home....
...says Paul Habibi, a professor at the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate....
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