Despite recent alarming revelations that children in 10 San Francisco and Oakland schools had been exposed to lead contamination well above federal safety standards, data from household water quality tests performed this year by the Bay Area’s two major utilities indicate that lead levels remain well below dangerous thresholds in the vast majority of the region’s homes.

In addition to routine systemwide inspections for lead and other toxic materials in their drinking water, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the East Bay Municipal Utility District, which together deliver water to more than 4 million Bay Area residents, also conduct lead tests for individual households, upon request.

San Francisco’s Public Utilities Commission performed water quality analyses on 211 household faucets this year and taps from Jan. 2 to Oct. 17. Of those, six contained lead levels above 15 parts per billion. By far the most heavily contaminated sample, taken from a bathtub faucet, registered 698 parts per billion. Notably, since shower and bath faucets aren’t considered typical drinking-water fixtures, they are exempt from lead-free plumbing requirements.

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The San Francisco agency charges $25 for each tap it checks, though households eligible for the Women, Infants and Children Program, which provides food and other benefits to low-income families, can apply to have the tests performed for free.

Across the Bay, EBMUD rolled out a program in March that allows customers to apply for a voucher for a certified lab to test their water at no cost. Since the program began, 70 tap tests have been conducted and none were found to contain lead levels above 15 parts per billion.

In 2014, the agency also analyzed the taps at 55 of its customer’s homes as part of a scheduled water quality testing program required under federal regulations. In all, 99 percent of those tests revealed lead levels below 15 parts per billion, and 90 percent were below five parts per billion.

Lead can cause a grim array of short- and long-term health problems, including brain and nervous system damage, anemia and hypertension, when enough accumulates in the body. It poses an acute threat to young children, who can absorb up five times more of it when ingested compared to adults, according to the World Health Organization.

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While no amount lead is considered “safe” to ingest, the Environmental Protection Agency’s lead and copper rule mandates that water utilities take action when systemwide lead levels exceed 15 parts per billion. Both SFPUC and EBMUD rely on that as a benchmark for household lead tests.

Since the 1980s, efforts to eliminate water service lines containing lead have “greatly reduced” exposure to lead in tap water nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control or Prevention. In most cases, when dangerous levels of lead are detected, the source can be traced back to corroded household plumbing materials, often in older homes. Lead cannot be seen, smelled or tasted when dissolved in water.

“It is much more common for older (plumbing) fixtures to have trace elements of lead than pipes underground, said David Briggs, EBMUD’s manager of water operations.

Both utilities recommend that anyone who finds elevated lead levels in their home taps arrange to have their fixtures inspected and replaced — particularly in older homes. Since 2000, California law has required that all kitchen faucets sold in the state must be “ultra-low lead.” According to the SFPUC, most faucets purchased prior to 1997 were made of brass or chrome-plated brass containing up to 8 percent lead.

“We encourage property owners to contact plumbers and contractors directly to make upgrades to their plumbing system,” said Tyler Gamble, an SFPUC spokesman. When replacing plumbing fixtures, the utility also recommends selecting products certified by the National Sanitation Foundation as being “lead free.”

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In homes with older plumbing systems and fixtures, experts also suggest flushing taps for up to two minutes before drawing water for cooking or drinking to clear away any water that might be contaminated. That’s particularly important to do for faucets that haven’t been used in several hours, when lead can leach from a faucet’s interior.

“If people aren’t clear about how safe their water is, running and flushing the taps is the best thing to do,” Briggs said.

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SAN FRANCISCO — The Port of San Francisco and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are planning on raising the iconic, historic Ferry Building by as much as seven feet.

The daring plan is an attempt to combat the impacts of sea level rise and extreme weather, both triggered by the climate change, and our warming planet.

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“We’re already seeing flooding on the Embarcadero. We know that the Bay is rising; we know that it will continue to rise”, explained Port of San Francisco Director Elaine Forbes.

Earlier this year, according to the United Nation-backed International Panel of Climate Change or IPCC for short, the planet is rapidly approaching a catastrophic threshold of heating. NOAA is tracking the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, as well as the rising ocean waters.

“Humanity is on thin ice, and that ice is melting fast,” said Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres in a recent address.

Port of San Francisco officials have held a series of public meetings with stakeholders along the 7.5 miles of bay coastline under the Port’s control. One neighborhood includes the Ferry Building.

The feedback was clear: those who work and/or live along the Embarcadero waterfront want to see the landmark Ferry Building remain on site and functioning. Currently, it is home to six ferry piers, used by millions of commuters and tourists each year. The Ferry Building also houses 44 different shops and restaurants as well as a world-famous Farmer’s Market.

And less known, it’s 2nd and 3rd floors have 190,000 square feet of offices and meeting spaces.

Port Engineer and member of the Water Resilience Team Steve Reel joined Juliette Goodrich in the CBS News Bay Area Virtual Set and in an exclusive report, demonstrated on how the Port and the U.S. Corps of Engineers are planning on raising the huge landmark.

The project will break ground in about a decade. The U.S. Corps will pick up 65% of the cost.

San Francisco’s Prop A — which was passed by 82.7% of voters in 2018 — authorized $425 million general obligation bonds that will partially fund the Waterfront Resilience Program. That includes funding improvements for earthquake safety of the three-mile long Embarcadero Seawall, near-term flood protection improvements, and planning for other long-term resilience.  

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Lead is pervasive in the drinking water of child care centers across California, with almost 1 in 4 child care facilities testing above legally allowed levels in the state, per new data released by the California Department of Social Services.

The results follow the first time in state history that child care facilities were required to test for lead in their drinking water, revealing the extent to which infants, toddlers and preschool children across the state are exposed to the damaging neurotoxin. 

Even low exposure levels of lead in children have been linked to a multitude of devastating health effects, including damage in the central and peripheral nervous system, learning disabilities, shorter stature, impaired hearing and impaired formation and function of blood cells, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Lead exposure is particularly damaging for younger children whose brains are still developing and for whom such damage is irreversible, said Tasha Stoiber, a senior scientist at Environmental Working Group, an environmental advocacy nonprofit. 

“Those youngest children are also going to be the most vulnerable to lead exposure, especially because most of their caloric intake for the day is going to be formula mixed with tap water,” Stoiber said.

Almost 1,700 child care facilities had tap water that tested above 5 parts per billion of lead, the state’s permissible level, though the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agree that there is no known safe level of lead in drinking water for children.

The highest test result came from La Petite Academy Incorporated in San Diego, which measured 11,300 ppb at one of its faucets — 2,260 times the state’s acceptable level and close to the highest concentrations found in Flint, Mich., where a lead contamination crisis developed in 2014 when the city’s water supply was switched from Detroit water to the Flint River. That waterway received raw sewage from the city’s waste disposal plant, along with urban and rural runoff, leaching contaminants from landfills and waste disposed by local industries.   

Of the 6,866 child care centers in California that were tested, eight centers had at least one faucet or fountain that exceeded the 5 ppb limit by 200 times, 76 centers exceeded the limit by 20 times and 183 centers exceeded the limit by 10 times, according to an analysis of the state’s data from the Environmental Working Group. 

The results are “alarming” but “not surprising” given the known high levels of lead in the drinking water of K-12 schools across the state, said Jenn Engstrom, California Public Interest Research Group state director. The nonprofit gave California a C grade this year for its “middling policies” to stop lead contamination in schools’ drinking water. 

“We’re really falling behind as a state when it comes to actually addressing this problem,” Engstrom said.

Abc Preschool in San Francisco had the fourth-highest recorded level of lead, with one of its faucets measuring 3,000 ppb of lead. When reached by The Chronicle, director Kumiko Inui said the faucet in question had not been used since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Also in the top 10 was a faucet at the St. Catherine of Siena Preschool in Martinez, which had the fifth-highest recorded level of lead at 2,000 ppb of lead. Principal Jessica Griswold told The Chronicle that the faucet belonged to a sink in the director’s office that is inaccessible to children and had not been in use for years. Since receiving the test results, the school has ceased using the faucet, Griswold said.

Kidango Linda Vista in San Jose, which had the 11th highest measurement of lead at 600 ppb, “immediately discontinued” using faucets at Kidango Centers that exceeded 5 ppb, according to assistant director of communications Mario Fierro-Hernandez. All Kidango classrooms have since installed lead-free fixtures and supply lines, Fierro-Hernandez wrote to The Chronicle.

At Bunker Hill Parents Participation Nursery School in San Mateo, the center with the 13th highest measurement of lead at 530 ppb, the sinks were only used for handwashing, and “at no time did our students consume water from these sinks,” according to director Tiffany Teele. Once the center was made aware of the results, the sinks were shut off, replaced and retested before being used for handwashing, Teele wrote in an email to The Chronicle.  

KinderCare had numerous daycare centers with faucets that tested above allowed levels, including one in San Francisco that had a faucet with 372 ppb of lead. At centers whose test results came back higher than 5 ppb, families were notified of the test results, and the faucets were removed from use until they could be replaced and retested, according to KinderCare senior public relations manager Colleen Moran. “Throughout this process we kept our families up to date on the actions we took,” Moran wrote.

Another Bay Area center with high amounts of lead discovered in faucets, First Presbyterian Church Preschool in Burlingame, did not respond to a request for comment.

The new test results from child care facilities were spurred by the passage of AB2370 in 2018, authored by Assembly Member Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, and sponsored by the Environmental Working Group. The bill requires child care centers built before 2010 to have their drinking water tested for lead contamination levels no later than January 2023. The centers will need to retest their water every five years.

Centers must cease using fountains and faucets that exceed the state’s allowed level of lead and obtain a potable source of water for children and staff at that location, per AB2370. 

Child care centers are also required to notify parents or guardians of children enrolled at the center of the test results, according to Department of Social Services spokesperson Theresa Mier. 

Going forward, state policies should help school and child care centers proactively install filtered water stations to capture lead coming from plumbing or pipes, as even 5 ppb can be damaging, Engstrom said. Lead levels in water can also be variable, which means proper sampling can miss possible contamination. 

“What we’re really encouraging these child care centers and schools to do is go above and beyond that requirement to get down to zero,” Engstrom said. 

Holden and the Environmental Working Group are sponsoring another bill to tighten testing requirements at public and private K-12 schools. Currently, schools don’t have to test all faucets at their location and must take action only if lead levels measure above 15 ppb. 

AB249, which is still in committee, would lower the limit to 5 ppb and require schools to test all their faucets. 

Reach Claire Hao: claire.hao@sfchronicle.com; Twitter: @clairehao_

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Under the law, the state would require all facilities whose water exceeds the 5 ppb limit to reduce lead to as close to zero as possible.

Daycare standards are higher than those in elementary, middle, and high schools, where not every faucet needs to be tested, faucets replaced, or parents notified unless lead levels exceed 15 ppb.

Rep. Chris Holden, the author of AB 2370, introduced legislation this year that would require schools to meet the same standards as day care centers.

“By aligning lead testing standards in childcare and schools, we can protect children from the toxic effects of lead,” Holden said in a statement.

Day care centers had a two-year window to have their drinking water tested for lead contamination. But so far, months after the deadline, only about half of the 14,500 tests required have been reported, according to EWG’s analysis. It’s unclear how many daycares haven’t yet tested their water for lead, or if their results haven’t been reported by labs.

Little said she expects the number of facilities with harmful lead exposure to increase as more testing results become available.

“It seems like this is just the tip of the iceberg,” she said, pointing out that licensed family child care homes in California, which have more day care centers, aren’t even required to test their water for lead.

Little advises parents sending their children to family children’s homes to encourage their providers to install newer faucets and lead-removing filters.

Parents sending their children to a center can search the EWG’s database for lead level results (PDF) and urge them to test their water if results from that facility are missing.

If the facility is found to have an unsafe level of lead in water, Little recommends parents check with providers for details on what they have done to lower that level.

Kumiko Inui, principal at San Francisco’s ABC preschool, whose lead levels scored the fourth-highest in the study, said the result was due to an outdoor sink that hadn’t been used in years and has since been turned off. However, she said other facilities at the bilingual Japanese-English preschool were below 5 ppb and that the school uses a filter in its kitchen sink and provides bottled water for students.

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When Blair Vorsatz started apartment hunting in San Francisco this year after living out of state for more than a decade, the 30-year-old Bay Area native braced himself for sticker shock. His first impression of a 1,900-square-foot, two-bedroom condo at the Ritz-Carlton Residences in downtown San Francisco—listed for rent at $8,000 a month—was that it was too big and more than he wanted to spend, even though it checked off other boxes on his wish list: luxury building, great view and close to his job in the Financial District.

But when the landlord cut the monthly rent to $7,000 a few weeks later, Mr. Vorsatz reconsidered. “All of a sudden, I was like, ‘This is gorgeous,'” he said. He signed a two-year lease and moved into the apartment in May. “I got this for a steal, relative to other places around here,” he said.

Although rental markets in major US cities surged to record highs last year, San Francisco’s recovery has lagged behind. Landlords and brokers cited a confluence of factors, including exorbitant prepandemic rents and the city’s rent-control policies, coupled with a mass exodus of tech workers and others over the past two years. While many restaurants and businesses have reopened and workers are being called back, homelessness and crime are prevalent in pockets of the city.

Blair Vorsatz worked with Leslie Bauer, founder of Highrises2Homes, to find an apartment at the Ritz-Carlton Residences, San Francisco.

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Of the 100 largest cities nationwide, San Francisco’s rent discounts are the steepest, according to data from home-search website Apartment List. The city’s median rents are down roughly 10% from March 2020, said senior economist Christopher Salviati. “They are trending upward, but at a fairly modest pace relative to the national average,” he said.

In June, the median one-bedroom rent was $2,331, up 7.6% year-over-year, Apartment List data show. But the rent growth was far slower than California’s state average of 13.6% and the national average of roughly 14.2%.

Blair Intent leased a two-year, $7,000-a-month condo at the Ritz-Carlton Residences.

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One reason for the sluggish recovery is that the city’s rental market was the most expensive in the country prior to Covid, and it took the biggest hit when the pandemic struck. The city’s median rent plunged 26% between March and December 2020, Mr. Salviati said.

He said San Francisco’s rental market experienced a “perfect storm” when a chunk of its tech-heavy workforce left the city to work remotely. “A lot of folks were questioning why they were paying top-dollar, big-city prices,” Mr. Salviati said.

Paul Gaetani, a principal of property management company Gaetani Real Estate, said prepandemic rents were the highest he’d seen in his decades in the business. Gaetani manages 4,200 units in San Francisco, mostly five- to 15-unit buildings. “Enter Covid, when everyone either loses their job or works remotely, and people that were paying high rents, they don’t need to pay these rents anymore,” he said. “They can move and do their job elsewhere in cheaper cities.”

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A park in San Francisco. Between July 2020 and July 2021, the city’s population dropped 6.3%, according to the US Census Bureau.

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Between July 2020 and July 2021, San Francisco’s population dropped 6.3%, the biggest decline of any other city or town nationwide, according to data from the US Census Bureau. (New York City lost 3.5% of its residents during that time.)

Meanwhile, the city’s apartment vacancy rate shot up to 10.2% in July 2020, compared with 3.9% at the start of the year, according to the property management and analytics software RealPage, which said San Francisco had the highest vacancy rate among large US markets . By comparison, the average vacancy rate nationwide was 4.6% at the start of 2020 and never rose above 4.8%.

Mr. Gaetani said the vacancy rate in his buildings, typically 1% to 2%, ultimately soared to 25%. “There was no one to backfill those units,” he said. “All of 2021 was really, really brutal for landlords in San Francisco.” Many slashed rents.

With the pandemic waning, renters in San Francisco are still resisting paying pre-Covid prices, and landlords’ willingness to negotiate has persisted, tenants and brokers said. In May, the average new lease rent in San Francisco was $3,340 a month, compared with $3,859 a month in January 2020, according to RealPage.

A few months ago, John Micek III, 69, a semi-retired lawyer and entrepreneur, toured about 20 San Francisco apartments with his agent, Tracy Zhou of eXp Realty. One, asking $4,975 a month, was a 900-square-foot one-bedroom in a luxury building off the Embarcadero. Despite exceptional water views from the 27th-floor apartment, he didn’t sign right away.

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John Mikek III.

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“I didn’t need to jump unless I found the perfect place,” said Mr. Micek, who was moving because he sold his house in Silicon Valley’s Menlo Park.

A few weeks later, the landlord called to see if he was still interested. He asked the landlord to rent it furnished, pricey artwork included, and to install an electric-car charging station in the building. The landlord ultimately agreed to split the roughly $4,000 to $5,000 installation cost, he said. He is paying $6,000 a month for the furnished apartment.

Some landlords said their hands are tied by the city’s rent-control ordinance, which limits how much they can raise rents each year in multiunit buildings constructed before 1979. In 2019, California also passed a statewide rent-control law to cap rent increases in buildings that are at least 15 years old.

Renee Voss is a managing partner of Voss Management, which manages around 152 units in six San Francisco buildings. Ms. Voss said she discounted rents in about two dozen units to retain tenants in 2020. “People were telling us, ‘This is what I want to pay or I’m moving,'” she said. She still had a 30% vacancy rate in 2020.

Ms. Voss said rent control is preventing her from reinstating pre-Covid pricing. “Once you lower someone’s rent, there’s no way to say, ‘Covid’s over, we’re taking you back'” to the prior rate, she said.

Not everyone agrees that rent control is to blame for what happens in San Francisco’s real-estate market. Daniel Wayne, a tenants’ rights attorney and partner at law firm Wolford Wayne LLP, said in his opinion, a larger factor is young tech workers now being able to work remotely and pay less for more space. “The main issue is demand and value,” he said.

In San Francisco, homelessness, car break-ins and other crimes have also made headlines.

“It’s a problem, and there are various parts of San Francisco that, honestly, I didn’t want to look at,” Mr. Micek said. The first time he took his girlfriend to see the apartment he ended up renting, there was a sideshow—where drivers illegally block traffic to perform stunts with their cars—at the end of the block. He said it gave him a pause, and it convinced him not to buy in San Francisco right now. Still, he feels that the neighborhood around his building is safe. “So far, it’s been fantastic,” he said.

Whatever the cause, lower rents have been a boon for tenants.

Alex Darden, 24, an investment associate, snagged a rent-controlled studio apartment when he moved to San Francisco in October 2020. The apartment, in the Financial District, had been asking $2,700 a month before Covid. He signed a one-year lease for just over $1,700, he said. “San Francisco is very expensive, so when I was looking around and I saw some of the prices in areas I wanted to move to, I was kind of like, ‘I need to hop on it now,’” he said. In October 2021, Mr Darden’s monthly rent increased by $12.

San Francisco’s newest luxury buildings, which aren’t covered by rent-control laws and typically draw young, well-paid workers, were hit particularly hard during Covid and are still playing catch-up, real-estate agents said.

Covid caused high-rise living to become less desirable overnight, as did paying a premium to live near the Financial District, according to Denise Paulson of Compass. “Nobody wanted to ride elevators. People were washing their groceries, remember?” she said. “They didn’t want to get in an elevator with anybody—even with two masks on.”

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To drive lease activity, a number of large buildings are still offering incentives.

Fifteen Fifty, a 550-unit building that started leasing in February 2020, was recently advertising up to two months free, plus eight months of free membership at the fitness club Equinox, on select apartments. At 1177 Market at Trinity Place, tenants recently got a month free plus flexible move-in dates, and NEMA San Francisco offered up to seven weeks free. The George, a 302-unit building in the SoMa neighborhood that started leasing in March, is currently offering two months of free rent on all units plus a $2,000 rent credit on two-bedroom apartments. In late June, developer Brookfield Properties said the building was 52% leased.

Fifteen Fifty developer Related Cos. has scaled back incentives since 2020, when it offered concessions for almost every deal it closed, according to Justina Shutler, a vice president at Related. Now the developer is offering concessions on select units to get Fifteen Fifty “to the finish line,” she said. Occupancy is currently around 90%.

Fifteen Fifty—where prices start at $3,350 for a studio and there is a $19,500 penthouse—has amenities such as a dog run, rooftop pool deck, screening room and sports lounge. During lockdown, the developer offered online workout classes and free cooking classes, with meal kits delivered to people’s doors. “In a time where there weren’t services outside of your home, that was impactful,” Ms. Shutler said.

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The George started leasing in March. It recently advertised two months of free rent plus a $2,000 rent credit on select.

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The George has a library, co-working space and rooftop lounge.

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Rob Chua, a 34-year-old nonprofit and public affairs consultant, said he was drawn to amenities at the George, but the hefty discount for a one-bedroom was a “huge factor” in his decision to rent. Previously, he was living with his parents elsewhere in the Bay Area and saving money to buy a place. Instead, he moved in to the George in May. The building has various amenities, including a gym, library, co-working space and rooftop lounge. Mr. Chua’s base monthly rent is $3,600, but it works out to $2,800 after concessions. He said he’s likely to re-evaluate his situation next year. “For the time being, it’s great,” he said.

In late May and early June, brokers and landlords said they noticed an uptick in the rental market as more people returned to the office. Alphabet’s Google has a hybrid work model, with employees returning to the US office a few days a week starting in April. In June, Elon Musk said Tesla Inc. and SpaceX employees must spend at least 40 hours a week in the office.

Mr Gaetani said his portfolio is still 6% vacant, three times a typical rate, but far from the 25% vacancy rate during 2021. Rents, however, are still down by 10% to 15%.

As in other cities, San Francisco tenants have reconsidered factors like outdoor space, layout and building size, brokers said, signaling a longer-term shift in how people want to live.

“People want buildings that are smaller with outdoor space, so they’re not landlocked in their apartment in the sky,” said Patrick Barber, a landlord and a regional president of Compass in California.

Until recently, Ms. Voss had a one-bedroom apartment in Russian Hill, asking around $4,000, that had been vacant for about four months. In mid-June, she found a tenant—bringing her portfolio to 100% occupied. Although demand is higher, she said, “residents are much more picky now than they used to be. They want more for less.”

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SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – After a sleep as the San Francisco Bay Area was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, home sales soared to feverish levels in less than two weeks as homes in San Jose and Oakland were sold, according to real estate guide Redfin.

The real estate resurgence has been slowly picking up for several months as COVID-19 restrictions have been eased, new cases have declined and the percentage of fully vaccinated residents has skyrocketed.

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The reopening of offices for employees who have been working remotely for more than a year. The restaurants are filling up again and there is a new atmosphere in the region.

Seasoned Oakland real estate agent Katy Polvorosa told the East Bay Times that not only are homes selling quickly, but businesses are closing after intense bidding wars for the properties.

“I’ve lost so many times,” Polvorosa told the newspaper. “It’s really not for the faint of heart right now.”

While home sales in San Francisco were slightly slower, other areas enjoyed the increase. Vallejo is one of these communities.

“Vallejo used to be an unknown gem. Now it’s a well known gem, ”said Jay Kobuvec.

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Once infamous for filing for bankruptcy, the city of 120,000 people and a median income of just over $ 30,000 a year has become a new base for home buyers during the pandemic.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. I can’t keep up with all of the buyers who come to me, ”said Tim Hiemstra, Napa River Realty owner and broker. “People get in and see it and the open space and the fact that they’re not limited to being in their Silicon Valley office in San Francisco.”

The City on the Bay, just 15 minutes from Napa Valley, currently has an average list price of $ 550,000 for a home with a yard. And that with a massive technical expansion of the nearby Mare Island and an available ferry service to the offices in San Francisco.

Fremont agent Sunil Sethi told the San Jose Mercury News he typically sees single-family homes moving within five days.

For example, in North Fremont, Sethi listed a four-bedroom home with room for in-laws and a landscaped yard for $ 1.88 million.

“The offers came and I said, ‘Wow,'” he told the newspaper.

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The first offer quickly came in at $ 200,000 on demand. Further, higher offers followed. A contract for $ 2.35 million was signed.

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Project House: Bidding Wars Return as the Bay Area housing market warms 1 year after the pandemicIn the Bay Area real estate market, bidding wars are back with a vengeance, almost a year after the COVID-19 pandemic. Susie Steimle reports. (3/10/21)

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COVID reopening: Pleasanton 1st Public Middle, high schools in Alameda County to resume personal learningOn Thursday, the Pleasanton Unified School District will be the first in Alameda County to resume face-to-face learning at all grade levels, including middle and high schools, for the first time since the pandemic began. Andrea Nakano reports. (3/10/21)

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COVID vaccine: Santa Clara County stops scheduling appointments for first dose due to deliveryOfficials in Santa Clara County said they stopped scheduling appointments for the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine after receiving fewer than expected doses from the state. Maria Medina reports. (3/10/21)

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VIDEO: Coast Guard looking for a driver who jumped off the Bay Bridge after a serious crashThe search was on for a driver who had jumped off the San Francisco / Oakland Bay Bridge following a multiple car accident that blocked the westbound lanes for nearly an hour.

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SF Startup’s 10-minute battery swap stations could revolutionize the electric vehicle marketA startup in San Francisco offers the ability to charge electric vehicles in just 10 minutes. John Ramos tells us this could revolutionize the electric vehicle market.

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Berkeley People’s Park residents reject responsibility for home vandalismStudent squatters in a warehouse in historic Volkspark fought with the University of California at Berkeley over who was responsible for the recent attacks and vandalism. Don Ford reports.

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Source identifies suspects in the brutal Oakland attack that left elderly Asian man on life supportKatie Nielsen reports, through a police source, that the suspect in the Oakland attack and robbery that killed a 75-year-old Asian man has a long criminal history (3-10-2021).

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Wednesday night weather forecast With Paul HeggenAfter a stormy Wednesday that included hail in some areas, expect the showers to subside on Wednesday nights and in cold conditions. Thick fog may be possible in some areas. On Thursday, conditions are cool and dry and temperatures warm up by the weekend. Paul Heggen has the forecast. (3/10/21)

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