Rupert Giles's apartment (San Francisco)

Rupert Giles rented an apartment at the same building and floor as Buffy, Willow, and Dawn's apartment and Xander and Spike's apartment, in Tenderloin, San Francisco.

The building
"So either fix this one, and we got a deal... Or get out of my hair. And see if anyone else in this city will rent to a gang of weirdos like you."

- Building's landlord .

After Giles's resurrection in London, he met the Scoobies during the assistance in Santa Rosita's zompire crisis. He returned with them to San Francisco, where they faced dissatisfaction with their living conditions and rent prices.

Helping with Giles's documentation, detective Robert Dowling shared a case of a haunted building, where in three decades 25 children disappeared, and its landlord would offer them a cheap rent for fixing this problem. It was inherited from her father and mostly immigrants lived there, and it was being gentrified, with "techies" and "trust-fund hippies," until the haunting started.

The building was actually infested by a Hamelin demon, a symbiotic creature who targeted children on the verge of losing their childhood, and instead offered the victim to live within its dimensions of illusions based on the individual child's dream. The demon trapped the Scoobies, who were able to free themselves and the missing children by refusing the reality the demon created -- despite Giles's wishes to remain in his ideal childhood.

With his assets unfrozen, Giles was able to afford to live alone in his apartment, while Buffy, Willow, Dawn, Xander, and Spike shared apartments across the hall.

Behind the Scenes

 * Giles's bookcase features Nataraja statue, also seen in Buffy's dream in Welcome to Hellmouth, and his library office in Prophecy Girl.

Buffy Season 10

 * I Wish, Part Two 
 * Return to Sunnydale, Part One 
 * Return to Sunnydale, Part Two
 * Love Dares You, Part Three
 * Relationship Status: Complicated, Part One
 * Freaky Giles Day
 * In Pieces on the Ground, Part Three

Buffy Season 11

 * In Time of Crisis