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… renewed debate around how we recognize and value unpaid work.
Currently is not included in GDP. For SAHM and SAHD, household chores have no value; go to work, employ someone to do the household chores, have value! The value appears and disappears.
It can be difficult to track investor activity using public records, and to distinguish investors with no intention of living in a home from business entities employed by some wealthy homeowners to minimize taxes, maximize inheritance benefits and shield their privacy.
“Small landlords are withdrawing from the rental market,” said Brown, executive director of Oakland nonprofit legal service Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, or HERA. “It’s tough. It’s messy. It’s clear that the pandemic drove some of the sales that are happening.”
No money and time to deal with evictions and lawsuits.
For those who follow population profile’s behavior, is an expected behavior. They are singles 
Downtowns are for them.
It’s common sense observation(about high housing costs in BA) for most people .
data center? meh.
These poor engineers.
Apple Pays Another Round of Rare $200,000 Bonuses to Some Staff
The rewards ranged from around $100,000 to upwards of $200,000 in restricted stock units, with some in the company referring to them as special retention grants.
Even Apple resorts to such tactics to keep talents? Apple is known to hire talents that buy into its vision and hence can pay slightly (or significantly?) lower than FB and GOOG. Guess no longer work.
Apple previously gave out special stock-based bonuses in December, with the rewards topping $180,000. In that case, the payouts went to employees in the company’s hardware technologies group, which designs its custom chips, and its team working on future virtual and augmented reality headsets. But it’s been rare in the past for Apple to rely on such rewards.
The company has suffered some attrition in its chip design group, and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc.has stepped up recruiting of engineers – aiming to put them to work on the so-called metaverse.
Again is FB. Mark has single-handedly driven pay of SWEs (and RE prices in tech hubs) to moon.
Mountain View gone bananas. This one sold for more than 1.2M above asking 
$330k above Redfin’s estimate. Good work, Deleon. If I want to sell, sell through Deleon.
Deleon charges a premium to sell, but they also get best result.
Looks like this home has an extension that’s not being reported to square footage of the listing. To get to ensuite master, you have to go through another bedroom.