Excerpted from an article at CNET by Alfred Ng. “I am trying really hard to make this nuclear bomb shelter feel like a home. The room is small, just enough to fit a bunk bed, a padded bench, a...

Exerped from and article at Forbes by Jim Morrison. “Scams targeting real estate transactions are on the rise, according to the FBI. Experts say there are many simple ways that consumers and real estate professionals can protect themselves and each...

An article over at Market Watch written by Andrea Riquier has the round up of the market burn-out that is happening. “The sharp slowdown in the housing market has come as no surprise to most observers. A steep imbalance...

Excerpted from an article at The Outline by Cole Hawes Louison. On December 12, 2013, a three-story brick townhouse in a swank part of Brooklyn sold for $20,000. A mysterious organization called AOTA LLC bought it from a guy...

Allen Ginsberg lived in Berkeley from September 1955 until August 1956. I have written about his time here, but, until Labor Day weekend, I had not seen photographs of the cottage he rented behind 1624 Milvia. I now have five...

Bay Curious Podcast had a great piece about an Urban Legend of the Little People Houses in Alameda. Here is an excerpt – listen and read the whole transcript at their website. During World War II, shipbuilding was big...

From a Curbed article by Margaret Lin. Sixty-six million years ago, ancient giant ground sloths consumed avocados whole, traveled long distances, and, ahem, fertilized and dispersed the seed. Today, we still have avocados—and an affordable housing crisis that only seems to...

The US Census has just released data on the fastest growing cities in the US from 2016 to 2017. Or did they? Irvine, California, at expanding at 4.2% and Henderson, Nevada, at 3.6% topped the list, which was limited to those...