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According to the OFHEO’s first quarter 2008 House Price Index (HPI), California registered the sharpest year-over-year depreciation (-10.6%) of any state; Merced, Stockton and Modesto registered the sharpest year-over-year depreciation…
“Three months after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac won the freedom to step up home-loan purchases, the government-chartered mortgage-finance companies are doing what critics in the Federal Reserve and Congress…
According to the April 2008 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index (pdf), single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA fell 2.2% from March ’08 to April ’08 and are down 22.1%…
From a trusted plugged-in tipster on the heels of this mornings post: I’ve heard that one-third of the Ritz units fell out of escrow. I gather some buyers were upset…
While we had been waiting for the website for 125 Mono to go live, a plugged-in reader simply reports: Just went to the open house on Sunday and it is…
Last week #1805 at San Francisco’s Ritz-Carlton Residences (690 Market) closed escrow with a reported contract price of $1,300,000. Not too shabby considering it’s a one-bedroom. But perhaps a bit…
Our piece on 1001 California resurrected the name Vincent Friia, a flamboyant fixture of a bygone era in San Francisco (and its real estate). A reader recollects (slightly edited for…
“A wall of high-rise office towers will stretch southeast from San Francisco’s downtown along Fourth Street to the emerging Mission Bay business and biotechnology research hub under a new long-term…
It’s not our usual fare, and it’s a bit outside our wheelhouse (at least this month), but we do aim to please. Plus it’s Friday, it’s hot (did you notice…
The unemployment rate in California jumped 0.6 perentage point in May to 6.8%, “the largest one-month increase since the state began keeping records in 1976.” The San Fransciso MSA, however,…