Having ticked up an upwardly revised 1.0 percent in October, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay and Peninsula – inched up 0.6 percent in November for a year-over-year gain of 8.3 percent... Read More »

While the current ICU availabilities for the Bay Area (8.2 percent), Greater Sacramento (9.9 percent), San Joaquin Valley (0.0 percent) and Southern California (0.0 percent) regions are all under 15 percent, and none of the regions with an active Stay Home Order were projected to meet the State’s black... Read More »

As we outlined last month, while the unemployment rate in San Francisco dropped in November, the number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck (i.e., employment) was actually on the decline, as was the case across the Bay Area as well. And in fact, the number of... Read More »

Purchased for $1.45 million in 2011, the former wine country cooperage on Lodi Lane in Saint Helena was converted into an industrial chic residence/retreat, complete with a new pool, pool house and an outdoor kitchen with a wood burning pizza oven and grill in 2014. And the 4,800-square-foot home,... Read More »

While the ICU availability for the greater Bay Area Region has ticked up to 4.7 percent, the State has formally extended its Regional Stay Home Order, an order which isn’t likely to be lifted for at least another month (if not two). At the same time, the ICU availability... Read More »

With the ICU availability for the greater Bay Area Region having just dropped to 3.5 percent of total capacity, the Regional Stay Home Order which went into effect at 11:59PM on December 17, 2020, and could have been lifted tomorrow, January 8, will be formally and indefinitely extended until... Read More »

Having ticked up an upwardly revised 1.3 percent in September, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay and Peninsula – inched up another 0.9 percent in October for a year-over-gain of 7.7 percent... Read More »

Despite the unemployment rate in San Francisco having declined from 6.7 percent in October to 5.7 percent in November, the number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck actually dropped by 6,600 last month to 534,100, which is 44,000 fewer employed residents than at the same time... Read More »

The ICU availability for the greater Bay Area Region just dropped to 12.9 percent, triggering a Regional Stay Home Order which will go into effect on Thursday, December 17 at 11:59PM and will remain in effect until at least January 8, 2021. As such, interhousehold gatherings of any size,... Read More »

Having spiked to 281,462 in September, the number of new unemployment claims filed across the Bay Area dropped 17 percent to 232,908 in October but was still higher than in May, June, July or August and prior to two rounds of pandemic driven reopening rollbacks last month. And in... Read More »