Condos used to be the ideal starter home in San Francisco


Rising HOA fees and a struggling condo market are making it increasingly difficult for San Franciscans to consider condos as ideal starter homes.
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โ€œMore and more people are questioning if they can sell their property today,โ€ said Polifko, who serves as the HOA board president. One resident of Petrini Place, who purchased a unit for $675,000 in 2023, discovered this year that the balcony needed to be reconstructed after dark water staining appeared in January. The HOA had to pick up the $44,000 tab using its reserves.

โ€œThe condo market was already tough, and itโ€™s not getting any easier,โ€ Polifko said.ย 

Throughout the 2010s, condo values climbed, even as San Francisco added thousands of units to its housing stock. Then came the pandemic, which upturned the real estate markets and left the condo category as one of the losers.ย 

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