Absentee Owners, San Francisco

Mapping absentee owners in new condos built after 2000, based on investigative research by Darwin BondGraham and Tim Redmond, readable here.

As they found, 39 percent of 5,212 condos in 23 buildings primarily built after 2000 are saturated in absentee landlords. Roughly 39 of these new condos are owned by people who listed other addresses as their primary residency, according to the Assessor’s Office. In some condos, absentee ownership is over 60 percent.