SF-Based Furnished Apartment Rental Startup Sonder Shuts Down, Declares Bankruptcy

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/10/sf-based-furnished-apartment-rental-startup-sonder-shuts-down-declares-bankruptcy/Sonder, the San Francisco-based rival to Airbnb that had established a lucrative partnership with Marriott last year, has now lost that partnership and is shutting down entirely. You may be familiar with Sonder only from a local controversy that arose in mid-2019, when it became known that the short-term rental company had taken control of a newly built residential building at Church and Market streets, which had been sold to the neighborhood as new rental housing. (Sonder sued to get out of that deal when the pandemic started.) Or you may have stayed in a Sonder property if you booked a short stay in a major city on one of the major booking