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In a recent listing (opens in new tab)<\/a> for an apartment in Duboce Triangle, a seller offered to knock off a couple of million dollars in exchange for OpenAI or Anthropic stock. Over in Mill Valley, a real estate investor sought out Anthropic employees willing to trade their shares for his $8 million<\/a> compound.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n While it may sound like a clever shortcut for employees \u2014 leveraging equity in AI companies before they go public to get ahead in a brutal housing market \u2014 local real estate and wealth management professionals say these barter deals are not happening.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not seeing people actually offering stock,\u201d said Blakely Hull, a Bay Area real estate broker. \u201cSure, there\u2019s anomalies and exceptions to every rule, but by and large, we are seeing the majority of offers actually still financed.\u201d<\/p>\n OpenAI and Anthropic are each valued at about $1 trillion. Anthropic is expected to IPO this fall, while OpenAI has reportedly pushed its plans into next year. With the highly anticipated wealth expected to come from their public market debuts, speculation about where the newly minted millionaires (and a few billionaires) will spend their money is at a fever pitch.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Jul. 13, 2026at6:00am In a recent listing (opens in new tab) for an apartment in Duboce Triangle,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2007,19534,32135,3408,388,101,103,102,104,106,105,29071],"class_list":["post-396543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-boom-loop","tag-openai","tag-real-estate","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-stock-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}