Christian Leonard

Just 5% of home sales in the San Francisco metro area fell through in October, compared with 15% nationwide.

The prices of the most expensive homes are outpacing those of mid-tier homes, sales data indicates.

The proliferation of fentanyl in recent years has driven a deadly drug overdose epidemic in San Francisco. The Chronicle is tracking accidental overdose deaths in the city to shed light on the crisis.

San Francisco’s housing market thawed after a yearslong freeze, while sales in the rest of the region began to slow. 

The rise of the artificial intelligence industry has brought a wave of wealth — and demand for homes.

A Chronicle analysis indicates that as many as 30% of homes in some neighborhoods are owned by companies — but that doesn’t always mean they’re investors.

California’s housing market is in something of a rut, but not in these two cities where homes are reaching record prices.

Housing markets across much of the U.S. are cooling, with many sellers resorting to the unthinkable: Cutting prices. But one city in the Bay Area hasn’t gotten the memo.

San Francisco rentals are leasing faster and pricing higher than they have at any point since the pandemic.

California’s poverty rate is once again the highest in the country, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows. What’s more, that rate recently saw its first increase in more than a decade.