Just found this fascinating uber column by Carol Lloyd in the SF Chron. on real estate as entertainment...goes with my fave book "Sex and Real Estate" by Harvard cultural theorist Marjore Garber. "Real estate today has become a form of yuppie pornography” she wrote, and this was in 2001. Prescient

From Carol Lloyd:
Art, film, music, literature... San Francisco has always been a city for culture vultures but now real estate has captivated our insatiable appetite for spectacle. The high-tech economy has exploded the cost of Bay Area housing to surreal proportions and we have all become compulsive witnesses to its grotesque drama. We gaze at the pictures in realty windows; we amuse our voyeuristic impulses at open houses. We trade tales of eviction, memorize exorbitant prices, compare the changing faces of neighborhoods.

So while the business and real estate pages explore the ups and downs of interest rates and the dos and don'ts of buying a home, here is a place where you can follow the cultural theatre of our real estate market gone mad.
Surreal Estate? You Bet