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By Francesca Maglione, Bloomberg In San Francisco’s latest real estate boom, renters are paying cash up front, multimillion-dollar houses are selling auction-style and AI company stock can buy a sprawling hilltop estate.—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 27 May 2026 On a hilltop, there is assembled a Gacaca, one of the elder-run community courts established as part of Rwanditude, the national reconciliation program designed to break the cycle of insidiously intimate neighbor-on-neighbor violence and enmity that characterized the conflict.—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 May 2026 The hilltop estate was built as a wedding gift from a wealthy cavalry officer for his bride before it was converted into a hotel in the 1920s.—Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026 Grace and Ken Evenstad purchased a 42-acre hilltop property in Dundee Hills in 1989 and named it after their daughter, Serene.—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 22 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for hilltop