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Yeah Chicago pretty easily. San Francisco is nice and very urban, but its urbanity just doesn't compare to Chicago in any way. Besides maybe the LA area, I think Chicago easily takes #2 spot after NYC.
Both areas cater to this demographic just fine, but the Bay Area is the region that people will pay serious coin for a house.
The Bay Area had the nation's first $100,000,000 home sale when Russian billionaire Yuri Milner bought a huge mansion in Los Altos Hills.
Since then the area has had an even larger sale, $117,500,000-Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, bought a huge classical estate in Woodside.
Aside from the Bay Area, the NY-Tri State, SoCal and South Florida I believe are the only other major metro areas to have had 9-digit home sales.
California as a whole packs a punch so strong, it would be impossible to imagine America or The Western Hemisphere without it. It may not be for me, but I have mad respect and admiration for it.
Not a lot of pictures in this article, but you can just Google San Francisco homeless, and see for yourself. There are also very numerous articles, news stories, etc., on the problem here. Some brag about all the billionaires in SF, but it's not anywhere close to being a beautiful utopia, as some are trying to present. I was there recently, and while parts of the city were beautiful, my opinion completely changed by what I saw on the streets. Check it out for yourself. Or, you can go on believing it's a paradise (but, you would be wrong).
Well, the title and post say Bay Area, not SF specifically. That being the case, I'm plunking down in Los Gatos or Saratoga. Not touching SF with a 10 mile pole.
Well, the title and post say Bay Area, not SF specifically. That being the case, I'm plunking down in Los Gatos or Saratoga.
Yes that's yet another top tier Bay Area corridor.
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Not touching SF with a 10 mile pole.
Oh, you dont have to, plenty of super rich people from all over the world have absolutely zero qualms about paying a vault to be in The City.
This is my old pic of a townhouse on Billionaire's Row owned by this local power couple called the Birches.
The Birches have put this on the market last weekend foe $39,000,000.
This is my pic.
This corner house on a 5,000 sq ft lot in Pacific Heights is $32,000,000.
This is my pic.
This Cow Hollow modern townhouse is $34,000,000
This is my pic
This corner house in Pacific Heights sold for $19,400,000 about a month ago.
This is my pic
This Pacific Heights townhouse(5,455 sq ft) recently sold for $12,500,000
This is my pic
Lincoln Park, to me, is probably the most beautiful single family home streetscape in the country. Though I wish it had SFs topography, I love the architecture, the tree canopy, the grid streets, and the neighborly alleys where everyone hangs out on their garage rooftops or custom designed backyards. Accessibility to the beaches, harbors, and well positioned commercial areas helps, as does the food and nightlife in the neighborhood.
You'd think folks living in $5M-$50M homes wouldn't be hanging out on a garage, but they do.
Chicago is stunning and a centimillionaire would have a great time there no doubt-this is all about personal opinion.
Here's a cool pic from a house with a view in the Bay Area, in the $7M-$10M range. Not a bad price imo.
This is my pic
Beautiful pics! SF is located in one of the country's best settings.
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