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A San Francisco mansion listed at $18.5m sold for $28.5m on 22 October, a city record, The Guardian reports. The paper links the bidding to the AI boom and the high salaries of its workers, against a wider market where homes are increasingly selling above asking.
Why it mattersIt is a striking example from the very top of the market, not proof that AI alone is driving city-wide housing costs. But the figures show how competition for property can reach well beyond the technology sector’s office doors.
Discuss: Should the pressure AI wealth puts on local housing markets be treated as a cost of the boom that tech firms must help address, or as a wider housing problem?
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