Southern-lying Crocker-Amazon is supposed to be one of the few remaining places in the city where buyers can still hope for a deal on a home. But a bargain is in the eye of the beholder.

100 Florentine Street is a three-bedroom San Francisco home from 1927 that sold last week for $938,000, a deal by 2017 standards.

But the house was in such disrepair that it doesn’t... read more...