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Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops Asking Rents in San Francisco Are Ticking Up, But… Benchmark Mortgage Rate Poised to Inch Down Asking Rents in Oakland Tick Up, Down Year-Over-Year Index Versus Reality for Another “Over Asking!” Sale
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Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

July 15, 2024

The number of single-family homes and condos in contract to be sold across San Francisco has dropped around 15 percent over the past month, including a 6 percent drop in…

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Asking Rents in San Francisco Are Ticking Up, But…

July 12, 2024

As we outlined at the end of May, asking rents in San Francisco were actually trending up, having ticked up two months in a row. And having ticked up another…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Poised to Inch Down

July 11, 2024

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched down 6 basis points (0.06 percentage points) over the past week to 6.89 percent, which is 7 basis points lower than…

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Asking Rents in Oakland Tick Up, Down Year-Over-Year

July 10, 2024

Having ticked back over $2,300 at the end of May, the average asking rent for an apartment in Oakland has since ticked up a percent to $2,360 a month but…

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Index Versus Reality for Another “Over Asking!” Sale

July 8, 2024

Purchased for $4.65 million in February of 2015, the 2,820-square-foot, four-bedroom home at 50 Buena Vista Terrace, a fully-remodeled single-family home which “transcends expectations,” in “the highly coveted” Buena Vista…

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Index for Bay Area Home Values Ticks Up, YOY Gain Slows

July 1, 2024

Having ticked up 2.6 percent in March, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area (i.e., “San Francisco,” which includes the East Bay,…

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Inventory Levels Hold, Asking Prices Drop in San Francisco [UPDATED]

June 25, 2024

The net number of single-family homes and condos on the market in San Francisco was unchanged over the past week and remains 1 percent higher than at the same time…

East Bay Marin (And Points North) Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Trends

Drop in Labor Force Driving Unemployment Rates Down

June 21, 2024

Having dropped by 5,400 in April, the net number of San Francisco residents with a job dropped inched back up by 400 in May to 534,100 but was still down…

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Classic Lake District TIC Trades Down

June 20, 2024

Purchased for $1.450 million in August of 2019, the updated but not “white-boxed,” two-bedroom, two-bath Lake District unit at 4504 California Street returned to the market priced at $1.395 million…

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Amazing Mission District Loft Fetches Over $1K Per Foot! But…

June 18, 2024

Purchased for $1.15 million in March of 2020, which was the same price the top-floor Mission District loft fetched in August of 2017, as pictured below, the “amazing,” 949-square-foot unit…

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Recent Reader Activity
  1. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern Noe Valley Compound Now Listed for 33 Percent Less

    152 days after after the revised listing mentioned in the penultimate paragraph above, 1647 Sanchez's listing was removed from the…

  2. Brahma (incensed renter) on “Full(er) House” Home Back on the Market

    Sold for 7.7 percent under asking. From India Roby at Architectural Digest, yesterday, in a story headlined The Full House…

  3. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Apparently, developers believe that S.F. doesn't have enough office space. But the vacancy rate is rising. According to an article…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Construction of Prominent Hub District Tower Has Commenced

    Might have been underway when the above was posted, but we weren't kept plugged-in. Lendlease’s tower to rise at 30…

  5. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern New Development Fails to Sell, Taken Back by The Bank

    Grubber2 pretty much nailed it. Sold by Avidbank to HSH Holdings for $14 million, or about 13.6 percent under the…

  6. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    My bad. Even realtor dot com is now showing that correct amount in its listing. I should have not taken…

  7. steve on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    I think someone mistyped the HOA fees. Redfin is now showing that as $1,764/mo. It doesn't change your main point,…

  8. Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

    It's not all bad at The Millennium Tower, and we can take a look at the unit namelinked above by…

  9. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    Not only has the building — now dubbed Crescent Nob Hill — been completed since the above post, but certain…

  10. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Probably won't meaningfully decrease the amount of office space on the market. Google is pulling out of it's lease at…

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