
Christian Leonard
Data Reporter at San Francisco Chronicle
Data reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. Big fan of d20s, birds and em dashes. Previous: @BurbankLeader, @outlooknews | @AAJA member
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sfchronicle.com | Christian Leonard
A general view of the Nobby Clarke Mansion in San Francisco in 2020. The median square footage of a San Francisco home built in the 2020s is about 1,510, down from 1,650 in the 1900s. Nick Otto/Special to The ChronicleFor decades, newly constructed homes in California were getting bigger and bigger. Not anymore. Statewide, homes built in the 2020s are about 2,150 square feet, down slightly from a peak of 2,340 in the 2000s, according to data provided by real estate company Zillow.
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sfchronicle.com | Christian Leonard
A home for sale in Oakland. Values in multiple Oakland ZIP codes continued to tumble by 3% or more from September 2024 to March 2025. Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The ChronicleThe start of spring usually brings a rush of home sales — and higher prices. This year is little different, with several Silicon Valley ZIP codes seeing significant jumps in home values in just the past six months.
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sfchronicle.com | Christian Leonard
Former Oakland City Council Member Loren Taylor took an early lead in his bid to become the city’s next mayor, but the race was too close to call as his main competitor, former Congresswoman Barbara Lee, trailed by about than 1,200 first-place votes. Taylor had about 48% of first-place votes Tuesday night, when about 45,000 ballots had been counted, while Lee had nearly 46%.
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sfchronicle.com | Christian Leonard
Texas is building homes at a far faster pace than California. In fact, just two metropolitan areas in Texas — Dallas and Houston — approved more homes than the entire state of California in 2024, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Building Permits Survey. The main reason comes down to a difference in cost, housing researchers say, pointing to eye-bugging headlines about affordable homes built for $1 million per unit.
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2 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Christian Leonard
President Donald Trump’s trade war has thrown the U.S. stock market into turmoil. And a Chronicle analysis of market data indicates that Bay Area-based companies may be experiencing some of the worst of it. The S&P 500 plummeted in the week after Trump announced his global tariffs on Wednesday, dropping more than 12% as of end-of-day Tuesday.
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