Fortune Shines on Sunnyside

Hopefully you've already bought your house in Sunnyside, because the neighborhood that I've been touting for years has finally made the mainstream, with an SF Chronicle cover story.

"As San Francisco's median home price approaches $800,000, it was inevitable that even a place as working class as Sunnyside would be discovered -- and, with time, reinvented. Even though there are signs that real estate sales are slowing, the prices in the region are still astronomical."

"What's happening in Sunnyside is emblematic of what's happening all over the Bay Area: Home buyers are being forced to search for under-the-radar, blue-collar communities, sometimes even crime-ridden neighborhoods -- if they want to stay. And San Francisco is at the center of it all, providing the clearest picture of how housing prices can throw an area's demographics for a loop. Middle-class families with children are leaving because they can get more for their money outside the city. Now, most home buyers are couples in their 20s, 30s and 40s who make six-figure incomes."

So, what's the next neighborhood? You have to consider the 'hoods that people still won't really touch: Excelsior, Portola, Silver Terrace, Mission Terrace, Balboa Park... The next BART stop down the line from Glen Park is Balboa Park... You might want to look that direction...