For precisely this reason, the most valuable real estate in Berkeley is BART parking. It's also (officially) not for sale at any price. You have to sit on the waitlist for a few years. I'm sure there's a black secondary market somewhere but I haven't found it.

BART is looking to eliminate all its parking, so this strategy won't work much longer. (They claim that the parking program doesn't bring in much revenue, but also refuse to charge a market-clearing price!)

Maybe the houses away from BART will get a little more affordable and those willing to walk 45 minutes or so will get a break. Or it'll end up like Sunnyvale where most of the "Caltrain" parking is actually provided by the City.

I checked this before I posted to make sure things hadn't changed.

Here's an example: https://www.redfin.com/CA/Berkeley/2333-Sacramento-St-94702/...

BART is a 20 minute walk, five minute bike ride (and with the weather and topography cycling is a great option).

That's still an hour+ commute: 20 minute walk + 5 minute wait + 35 minute BART ride. Plus however long the walk/connection is on the SF side. If you're working at Embarcadero it could be a few minutes shorter; if you're where a bunch of the post-2010 tech companies are clustered at 7th street in SOMA, it's another 25 or so via bus or light rail connection.

I started a remote job in August (8 months ago) and I've saved about 400 hours of commute time since then.

(~2.5 hours / day) x (~20 work days / month) x (8 months) = ~400 hours