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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Diana Ramirez-Simon

‘Soul-crushing’: converted Bay Area office apartment fail goes viral

Multiple signs in the window of a Coldwell Banker real estate agency in the Gourmet Ghetto (North Shattuck) neighborhood of Berkeley, California advertising homes for sale in the San Francisco Bay Area, October 6, 2017. Bay Area home prices are among the highest in the United States. ()<br>KGJ4XC Multiple signs in the window of a Coldwell Banker real estate agency in the Gourmet Ghetto (North Shattuck) neighborhood of Berkeley, California advertising homes for sale in the San Francisco Bay Area, October 6, 2017. Bay Area home prices are among the highest in the United States.
Real estate in the Bay Area is ridiculous these days, but a half-million-dollar condo should be a bit more homey. Photograph: Gado Images/Alamy


More people are working from home these days, but a video of a California office-to-residential conversion that recently went viral on TikTok would blur the line between office and home life completely.

The TikTok profile zillowtastrophes posted the video which features a one-bedroom, one-bath “recently converted” property in San Rafael, California, just 18 miles (30km) north of San Francisco, priced at $520,000, a steal for the area.

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