It's not like he needs the cash. But we don't think Joy, who joined Kleiner Perkins three years ago, as a partner in the once-storied venture-capital firm which funded Amazon.com and Google, among others, has much time to enjoy the place. Kleiner, like much of the venture-capital business, is struggling, especially with its bets on cleantech which have been battered by both the credit crunch and falling oil prices which make alternative energy sources less profitable. Better to unload it at any price — and invest in real estate closer to the office. As for Jackman, we figure the X-Men star simply knows a bargain when he sees one.

A search of King County property records showed that since the June 2007 sale of his previous residence, Barton hasn't purchased property under his or his wife's name. Is he renting? Zillow's Amy Bohutinsky says Barton does own his own home, which a Seattle-based tech reporter says is in the city's Madison Park neighborhood. He may well have bought it under a trust.

If so, it's the first time he's chosen to do so in years of owning Seattle-area real estate. It's telling that Barton, an ex-Microsoft executive who got rich through the software giant's spinoff of travel site Expedia, has suddenly become interested in keeping his home address private. Could it have anything to do with his new business of telling everybody what their neighbors' homes are worth?

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The property includes a 300,000 square foot existing structure on 24.3 acres of land, with approval to add a 38,000 square foot expansion. The building includes a three-story office area and a warehouse with a 35-foot ceiling. Tender Heart Treasures, which makes gifts and home decor products, will vacate the building in January when it moves to another location, according to the Omaha World-Herald.

In August Yahoo applied for tax incentives under the Nebraska Super Advantage program, which requires a minimum investment of $100 million and the creation of at least 50 high-salary jobs paying a minimum average salary of $68,700. The filing revealed that the project would be in La Vista, a fast-growing Omaha suburb whose corporate residents include HP and eBay’s Paypal unit, which employs about 2,000 workers at a call center not far from the new Yahoo site.

Omaha was recently named one of the most affordable U.S. cities to operate a data center by The Boyd Company, with an annual operating expense of $12.9 million, less than half the cost of operating a similar facility in New York.

[Brady] underwrote subsequent stock offerings, is a bidder in Google's transferable stock option program, covers its conference calls, and tries to cheerlead its price up to $900.

Our tipster asks how something that could appear as a conflict of interest got past Google's Code of Conduct Police, but he answered his own question: After funding his wife Wojcicki's biotech startup, it's clear that Brin, his fellow cofounder Larry Page, CEO Eric Schmidt, and other executives hold themselves well above any ethical guidelines they may have put into place for the underlings at the Googleplex.

Barton, who famously founded travel Web site Expedia as a Microsoft property before it split off and sold to IAC, has apparently been telling investors that the company will make $40 million in revenue by the end of the year — even though the best estimates within the company peg the amount at more like $8 million, according to a source. Meanwhile, the company maintains a lavishly appointed office on the 46th floor of the Wells Fargo Center in Seattle's central business district, and has raised a total of around $87 million in three rounds of venture capital funding.

Trulia, which offers similar price estimates for properties, is neck-and-neck with Zillow in terms of visitors according to Compete. However, Trulia has only raised $33 million and is headquartered in a relatively humble office building at the foot of San Francisco's Portrero Hill. Granted, savvy visitors probably check both sites because the numbers provided can often be wildly inaccurate. Sort of like Barton's revenue estimates.

No. While exurban exiles will feel the pinch on payments and at the pump, denser inner-urban communities will probably see rents increase as desperate homeowners look to cut costs and find job opportunities. And it's not like you can expect affordable housing in the likes of Belmont and Saddle River, Ross or Sag Harbor, Piedmont or Greenwich. As bad as renting is long-term for your retirement and rent control may be for their housing markets, apartment dwellers with fixed costs are the least likely to move back in with parents right now.

A friend who's a contractor says Steve Chen is building a tech-heavy penthouse on the top floor of the Ritz-Carlton. Lots of video screens and stuff. That's all I know.

I'm just guessing that this isn't in the neoclassical Ritz-Carlton hotel on Nob Hill, but in the residential apartments built atop the old de Young building that's managed by Ritz-Carlton. When Chen is all moved in, I imagine mid-Market penthouse neighbors Mayer and Al Gore dropping by, the latter with a stern lecture on the importance of climate change and the former with a box of cupcakes. (Photo by Allan Ferguson)

The plans call for a master bedroom, two children's bedrooms and a living room, all connected to a two-story house on an adjoining hill, with an elevator leading up from an underground garage. County inspectors and city staff are supporting the project so far. "If the city will allow him to do it, I have every belief that he will follow through," city planner Greg Wolff told the Contra Costa Times. My advice to Docter? Don't invite the infamous tree-sitters of Berkeley over. They'd never leave.

Page was granted the deed on the property on February 18, 2005 after the historic building had been on the market for years with an asking price of $7.95 million. The rich are always cheap: Page managed to get about $1 million knocked off the price, as the next year the property was assessed at just under $7 million. By this year, the assessment was back up to $7,216,214, with the nearly 3/4-acre property alone assessed at $5.1 million. How much are the taxes on the property? $78,550.96 over the last year.

• Broadcom headquarters
• The warehouse
• The Rodeo residence
• The Telescope house
• The Turnberry condo

What ought to stop this search-engine sprawl: Googlers' own consciences, if they are still guided by the "Don't be evil" slogan. Developing new offices on the very fringe of Bay Area's suburbs, on areas that used to be wetlands, or neighbor the fragile ecosystems, is unconscionable. Despite the perk of free shuttle buses, most Googlers still drive carbon-emitting cars to work.

The Bay Area's infrastructure allowed Google to blossom. The region has asked far too little of it in return. Google should commit now to funding the extension of Santa Clara County's light-rail system through its new campus and its old one. It should also expand in cities like San Francisco, already served by public transit, rather than shuttle its workers 40 miles each way. Eliminating energy expended in transportation is far more productive than finding clever ways to achieve marginal efficiencies.

The environmental impact is one thing. But the business impact is another. Google's executives should also ask themselves: What kind of company do they want to be? Do they want to remain cloistered from the world, or engaged in it? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg chose to place his company in downtown Palo Alto, with all the difficulties that poses; his choice meant that his workers rub shoulders daily with Stanford students, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists — and, shockingly, people not involved in the tech industry. On the Googleplex, Googlers live in a world of sameness, with people who never challenge their technology-über-alles worldview.

Larry and Sergey have built themselves a candy-colored bubble on the outskirts of Mountain View. By inflating it, as they've chosen to do, they only increase the risk that a competitor more in touch with the real world will pop it.

A friend of mine who works at Facebook told me that they have recently revoked the $600/mo. subsidizing of rent in Palo Alto because too many employees were banding together in groups of 4 or 5, renting a "chill pad" in Palo Alto, and pocketing the rest. Some pocketed as much as $300/mo. My friend told me the bandits [were] actually living in SF.

"Bandits" indeed. The whole point of the Facebook housing subsidy was to foster community by keeping Facebook employees living near each other in Palo Alto, in walking distance of headquarters. Ganging together to rent small apartments in Palo Alto while living in San Francisco is fraud, plain and simple.

But should we be shocked it happened? Many Facebook employees, some of whom make as little as $34,500 per year, are cash poor, and even the better-paid employees can hardly afford a Palo Alto mortgage. Zuckerberg's resistance to selling out has kept the company independent, but it also means employees' shares are only worth something on paper. Keeping Facebook independent may validate Zuck in his quest for peace in the Middle East, but some of his overeducated, underpaid, Camus-reading troops would prefer that their Meursault just shoot the Arab.

Rumor has it Facebook will no longer pay its employees a $600/mo. housing subsidy for living in Palo Alto. The move comes off as a cheap blow against employees, but it's not. The Craigslist ad in the image above illustrates who the cost-cutting move actually hurts the most: not Facebook employees, but their landlords, who just lost a pack of tenants willing to pay $600 more than anybody else. Say the apartment hunters who put up the ad: "We are looking to pay less than $3k/mo for a 3BR, especially since the Facebook subsidy is gone now."

His self-aggrandizing website is muted and subued in its design by comparison, and that's saying something. Seems Chahal didn't bother to spend any of his millions on a subscription to Architectural Digest or Wallpaper. (Photo via SFLuxe)

When a court ruled in Morrow's favor in the eviction case, a lawyer at the firm representing the Macys got an email purportedly from the tenant that read, "One day you are going to come home to the Victorian house ... and find (your three children) missing. Then each day a package will arrive with a piece of them. You are f- with the wrong person."

When one of the tenants, Scott Morrow, successfully fought eviction, the couple allegedly told workers in September 2006 to cut the beams that supported his apartment's floor. They also shut off Morrow's electricity, cut his phone line and had workers saw a hole in his living room floor from below, prosecutors said.

The address has been a staple of local high society since at least 1922. It also pops up The Other Side: An Account of My Experiences with Psychic Phenomena, by James A. Pike — leading some credence to suggestions that the location may be cursed.

For instance, the place was owned and occupied by local shipping magnate John Traina and romance novelist wife Danielle Steele. But until 1981, Traina lived there with wife Diane "Dede" Traina — until, in a much-publicized series of divorces and weddings, Ms. Traina ended up with dairy magnate Al Wilsey and Mr. Traina ended up with Steel — leaving Wilsey's wife Pat Montandon in the lurch. Much of this was eventually recounted in Sean Wilsey's memoir Oh for the Glory of It All.

In 1989 the Traina-Steels put the house on the market for $5.5 million, and Hayden purchased the place in 1990. In the ensuing decade, Hayden managed to bury himself in up $38 million in debt tied to worthless Critical Path stock loaned by personal bankers and investment managers Robertson Stephens. By 2002 Hayden was accusing the bank of mismanaging his assets as the company moved to foreclose on the property while itself being put up for sale. Nonpayment of rent and taxes has since become a pattern of Hayden's.

I'm not sure which would be the more ill-starred investment — buying the possibly haunted house or investing in Hayden's latest venture, a resort community for the ultra-rich.