Bay Area Home Values Tick Up, Condo Values Slip
Having inched up 0.5 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…
A Century of Planning in San Francisco
Back in 1904, San Francisco Mayor James Phelan convened the Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco, a private group which invited the visionary Daniel Burnham to create…
Bay Area Unemployment Rates Just Dropped to Record Lows
Having slipped in October, the number of people living in the city of San Francisco with a job increased by 4,600 in November to a record 557,400 and the unemployment…
San Francisco Population Hits 880,000; Bay Area Over 7.7 Million
The estimated population of San Francisco proper has crossed the 880K mark, hitting 880,418 on the first of July, according to data from California’s Department of Finance. That’s an increase…
Pace of New U.S. Home Sales Soars Following Downward Revision
With the preliminary pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. having been revised down from a 6.2 percent gain in October to a 1.7 percent decline, the seasonally…
Pipeline of Residential Development in San Francisco Drops
With the number of new units of housing in San Francisco that finished up construction in the third quarter of the year having outpaced the total of those which were…
Landmark Uptown Oakland Club Building on the Market
The colorful Uptown Oakland building at 2120 Broadway, which also fronts Franklin Street and is home to both the landmark Club BNB (formerly Bench and Bar) and its sister Club…
Little Movement in the Benchmark Mortgage Rate
With the downstream impact of the Federal Reserve’s rate hike last week already priced in, the average rate for the benchmark 30-year mortgage was 3.94 percent as of yesterday and…
Plans for Building up Geary and a Potential Psychological Toll
Plans to level the 3-story medical office building at 3330 Geary Boulevard, between Commonwealth and Parker Avenues and across from Mel’s Drive-In, have been drawn. And as envisioned, a six-story…
Pace of Existing U.S. Home Sales Jumps, except in the West
Having ticked up 2.0 percent in October, the overall pace of existing-home sales in the U.S. jumped 5.6 percent in November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.81 million…