Those were the days, right? Not only was there great, campy television, but the internet was dial-up, Mark Zuckerberg was a child and in San Francisco it was a pretty amazing time to buy a house.
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Look at the numbers: In the mid-'90s, the median price of a home in San Francisco was roughly $300,000.
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Yes, that was more than the current national median home price, but if you tried to get a home for that price now in the city, here's an example of something you might get.
From then on, housing prices only went up thanks to (drum roll): Tech.
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Around 2000, the first tech bubble, home prices in San Francisco did go up to a median price of more than $500,000. But fast-forward a little over 10 years and that's when things really took off.
In 2012, Facebook went public. The next year Twitter did. At the same time, housing prices skyrocketed.
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In the past seven years, the median home price in San Francisco has more than doubled from $600,000 to $1.4 million and the same has happened in cities across the Bay Area.
Bottom line: Enter the big IPOs and the Bay Area housing market has never been the same since.
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