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Posted: 11 Feb 2015

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SF Russian Hill View Tower (1383)

SF Russian Hill View Tower (1383)
View Tower on Hyde Street on Russian Hill. The building is 16 apartments (one per floor), each 2 bedroom and 1100 sq ft, with 360 degree unobstructed views for the upper floors (see nearby picture) and unobstructed views to the east for all floors. Built in 1927 or 1928 (websites differ on year), the architecture is described as Moorish (see the entrance way in the adjacent picture). I found a listing for one of the units for $6500/month which seems inexpensive considering the prestigious location and views. The listing did not state the floor, so possibly it was for a low floor.

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 Clint
Clint
I just can't get over San Francisco rents. I know I keep harping on this, but it's just something I can't stop being amazed by. I once bought a huge 3BR house in Kentucky for less that what these people pay for a year's rent.
11 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
While the city is expensive everywhere, the new apartments and condos that I've been focusing on are probably relatively close in price to similar areas in LA or downtown Chicago, and cheaper than similar in Manhattan. The main reason I focus on it so much is that it is evidence of the increasing wealth divide in a city that I once knew and loved due to its status as an icon of progressive social justice.
11 years ago.
Clint has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
The thing that strikes me is that the numbers you're posting are far beyond anything you'll find in Chicago, at least, which I tend to think of as expensive. I'm sure you could find some penthouse in the Gold Coast, or maybe in Donald Trump's building that might compare to this price. But then I look up the rents in Lake Point Tower--what I would think would be Chicago's most expensive condo building, the only structure east of Lake Shore Drive. The most expensive rent in this building I can find is about half what you'd pay to live in View Tower. A Gold Coast building like View Tower would probably run around $2000.

www.lakepointtower.org/property4rent_list.asp

I've never priced anything in Manhattan. I'd expect that to compare to San Francisco, but it would be close.
11 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
I didn't realize Chicago was that inexpensive. The only thing comparable to the SF downtown rents that I could think of in LA was Century City. Zillow for Century City has very roughly comparable apartments mostly between $4k and $5k, with one at $7950. Zillow (as a verb) Wilshire and Manning and it looks like $4k is the bottom in the high rises out there.
11 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Clint
If it weren't for the rents in the Bay Area I would still be there, and believe me, I left kicking and screaming. I will forever be homesick. You just can't live there alone, like a grown-up, on a modest income. If you're an engineer or a doctor, you're golden, but anything less and you're packing up after 46 years in a place you love. Good thing I did five years ago, because now I'm retired, income is even smaller, and my rent for a one-bedroom apartment where I am now is $450. The equivalent in Half Moon Bay (just south of SF), where I lived at the time, would be $1800. So, I traded gorgeous HMB and easy access to one of the best cities in the world for a culturally backward, barren small town in Oregon. It broke my heart, but that's life.
11 years ago. Edited 11 years ago.

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