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Old 05-08-2012, 01:47 AM
 
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Recent statistics show San Francisco is the 2nd most expensive city in home rental:
1 bedroom, $2017/month
2 bedroom, $3270/month
3 bedroom, $3499/month

New York is No. 1.
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Old 05-08-2012, 09:19 AM
 
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Somewhere I recently read that San Francisco was actually the highest in the country when it comes to two-bedrooms, even more expensive than in NYC. I can believe it, as we actively looked for true 2-BRs in both Manhattan and in San Francisco in the same three-month period. We ultimately ended up giving up on finding somewhere in the city of SF (while there were some okay 2-BRs at our $2,500 price point, they were tough to find, and the competition was extremely fierce) while there were plentiful 2-BRs at that price point in Manhattan, and in more central/trendy Manhattan neighborhoods than their SF equivalents, at that. (granted, the SF apartments were larger) It was a surprise to us, as we did not expect to move to Manhattan and find it, housing-wise, CHEAPER (relatively speaking!!) to SF.

That comparison is kind of besides the point, other than to say yes, absolutely, it's expensive to rent in San Francisco!
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Old 05-08-2012, 09:25 AM
 
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These numbers seem about right. I've seen other figures for the "average" 1 bedroom around $1600 which I though was far too low. $2k for a 1 bedroom seems spot on based on the browsing I've done on Craigslist.
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Old 05-08-2012, 10:00 AM
 
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I know it was a long time ago but we rented a place in the Sunset, a 2, 1-1/2, for - hope everyone is sitting down - $1300 - back in the mid 90s.

It was a really, really nice place on a great upper middle class street with no apartments and no houses broken up into flats.
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Old 05-08-2012, 10:50 AM
 
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Originally Posted by rrwwcc View Post
Recent statistics show San Francisco is the 2nd most expensive city in home rental:
1 bedroom, $2017/month
2 bedroom, $3270/month
3 bedroom, $3499/month

New York is No. 1.
MapLiv: Find local and live
I followed the link and th prices were different. I wonder if the sample time is too short to provide meaningful data.

Here's what I saw:
No City 1br 2br 3br
1 New York NY 2555 2880 3063
2 San Francisco CA 2187 2964 2916
3 Hoboken NJ 1978 2728
4 Cambridge MA 1975 2672 2987
5 Washington D.C. DC 1953 2603
6 Santa Monica CA 1930 2596
7 Arlington VA 1756 2403 3028
8 Boston MA 1750 2336 2578
9 Brookline MA 1719 2333 3013
10 West Hollywood CA 1719 2247
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Old 05-08-2012, 08:50 PM
 
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Honest to pete, at those prices, you'd be crazy to not come to East Oakland and buy a house!

Come on, we need to regentrify here!
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Old 05-09-2012, 06:33 PM
 
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Honest to pete, at those prices, you'd be crazy to not come to East Oakland and buy a house!

Come on, we need to regentrify here!
This was the topic at work today...

Many areas around the Bay have bidding wars both for renting and buying... yet, smack dab in the middle of the Bay Area is Oakland and we have lots of inventory for sale and for rent.

I took one of my SF co-workers to look at a home today in East Oakland near Golf Links... she couldn't believe a 2300 square foot home with 3 baths and some upgrades with a SF view were selling in the mid 300's earlier this year...

Oakland definitely is the step-child right now when it comes to affordability...

The biggest perception problem I keep hearing about is the on-going Occupy Oakland protests... it has taken a huge toll on our city...
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Old 05-09-2012, 07:20 PM
 
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I know it was a long time ago but we rented a place in the Sunset, a 2, 1-1/2, for - hope everyone is sitting down - $1300 - back in the mid 90s.

It was a really, really nice place on a great upper middle class street with no apartments and no houses broken up into flats.
Real estate was cheap (relatively speaking) back in the early-to-mid-90's. Both housing prices and rents really took off from 1997 onwards, after the passing of the capital gains exemption act on the sale of residences at the end of 1996.
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