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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Nears a 23-Year High, Jumbos Jump High-End Pied-à-Terre Relisted Anew at a Larger Loss Apples-to-Apples for an Elegant Nob Hill Pad Purchase Mortgage Activity Ticks Down A Modernized Bayview Home Returns
Breaking News Real Estate Economics Trends

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Nears a 23-Year High, Jumbos Jump

September 28, 2023

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up another 12 basis points (0.12 percentage points) over the past week to 7.31 percent, which is 61 basis points higher…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions Remodeling and Renovation Trends

High-End Pied-à-Terre Relisted Anew at a Larger Loss

September 28, 2023

As we outlined earlier this year, unit #2E at 288 Pacific Avenue, “the perfect SF pied-a-terre” and “urban home in a beautiful full-service building…directly across the street from the Battery…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Real Estate Economics Trends

Apples-to-Apples for an Elegant Nob Hill Pad

September 28, 2023

Purchased for $1,275,000 in October of 2019, the “elegant and spacious” unit #502 at 850 Powell Street, an 1,800-square-foot, three-bedroom condo in the “fabulous luxury doorperson building” dubbed The Francesca,…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Purchase Mortgage Activity Ticks Down

September 27, 2023

The number of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for an existing home in the U.S., which dropped back down to a 28-year low earlier this month, ticked down…

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A Modernized Bayview Home Returns

September 27, 2023

Taken “down to the studs” and modernized, “with no details left unfinished,” the remodeled four-bedroom Bayview home at 1119 Hollister sold for $1.15 million in 2019 and then again for…

Breaking News Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

New Home Sales Drop Below Pre-Pandemic Pace, Prices Slip

September 27, 2023

Having ticked up an upwardly revised 8.0 percent in July, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. dropped 8.7 percent in August to an annual…

Breaking News East Bay Industry Stuff Marin (And Points North) Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Trends

Index for Bay Area Home Values Inches Up, Down YOY

September 26, 2023

Having inched up an upwardly revised 0.2 percent in June, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area (i.e., “San Francisco,” which includes…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions Trends

Big Bernal Heights Infill Project Parcels Reduced, Again

September 25, 2023

Listed for $3.5 million eight months ago, with big plans for ten new “luxurious view residences” to rise on and behind the undeveloped Bernal Heights lot(s) at 1513 York Street…

Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Real Estate Economics RealRecentReductions Trends

Inventory Levels Tick Up in San Francisco, Poised to Peak

September 25, 2023

The net number of homes on the market in San Francisco, including both condos and single-family homes, ticked up another 6 percent over the past week, driven by an ongoing…

As Proposed City Planning Commercial Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods Trends

Polk Gulch Garage to Be Preserved, Demand for Parking Grows

September 22, 2023

While the supersized plans for redeveloping the Polk Gulch funeral home site at 1123 Sutter Street, along with the adjacent three-story garage at the corner of Sutter and Larkin, were…

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  1. Brahma (incensed renter) on High-End Pied-à-Terre Relisted Anew at a Larger Loss

    Maybe if you're smoking that hopium. As I said above, I don't claim to know the market for Jackson Square…

  2. Brahma (incensed renter) on Benchmark Mortgage Rate Nears a 23-Year High, Jumbos Jump

    I think that the savvy "players" in the S.F. commercial office space game thought to themselves, "well, this company's business…

  3. Notcom on Benchmark Mortgage Rate Nears a 23-Year High, Jumbos Jump

    "It was obvious to most informed observers that WeWork was going to fail eventually" Well, then clearly those who leased…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Benchmark Mortgage Rate Nears a 23-Year High, Jumbos Jump

    Appears to be a reference to More S.F. office buildings are defaulting on mortgages as real estate pain spreads, datelined…

  5. Dixon Hill on Apples-to-Apples for an Elegant Nob Hill Pad

    Unit doesn't appear to face Powell Street (and it's on the 5th floor)...I don't think the cable car noise would…

  6. George on Apples-to-Apples for an Elegant Nob Hill Pad

    No parking, no in-unit laundry and $2K a month for the privilege. Also on the Cable tracks and the non…

  7. Metroliner on High-End Pied-à-Terre Relisted Anew at a Larger Loss

    A no view essentially nice hotel room such as this shouldn't be any more than $200,000. Even that might be…

  8. Fact on Benchmark Mortgage Rate Nears a 23-Year High, Jumbos Jump

    SS is mostly residential. But rising rates are also hitting commercial side hard. If you can't get behind the paywall…

  9. Brahma (incensed renter) on A Modernized Bayview Home Returns

    Of course, it really doesn't matter that Daniel Lurie might be out of touch with normal folk. What matters is…

  10. tfourier on A Modernized Bayview Home Returns

    I'd vote Breed over him any day. She at least knows the "real" SF. He is just another Trust Fund…

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