Posts with tag Bay area

Terry McMillan: Single and Selling at $3.3M

Many divorced women in their fifties look forward to starting a new chapter in their lives. Terry McMillan is one of them. The famous author of über-chick books and the film adaptations, "Waiting to Exhale" and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," is starting her new life by listing her Danville, Calif. home for sale at... Continue Reading »

Downsizing: How to Live in a Small Space with Less

How does one move from 5,100 square feet to 600 and still function? Attorney Glen Ackerman, who, when he moved from his large Pittsburgh home to his tiny one-bedroom Washington, D.C. condo started over with nothing but his clothes and a few books, will tell you "live only with the necessities," according to the Washington... Continue Reading »

People in Glass Houseboats: A Wave of the Future?

When San Francisco designer Joanna Borek-Clement thinks about futuristic homes, she's not thinking about moon pods or docking stations in space, but about the local marina. Borek-Clement has come up with a new kind of houseboat design named "Tafoni" inspired by nature and which thinks outside the houseboat box –... Continue Reading »

Report Proves City Living Cheaper

Last week the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing released a report about the transportation costs in and around San Francisco called the Bay Area Burden. It shows the average Bay Area suburban household spends more than $41,000 a year – nearly 60 percent of their income – on transportation and... Continue Reading »

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