Bay Area Home Sales Slip to a 7-Year Seasonal Low
The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area totaled 7,547 in July, slipping 0.3 percent on a year-over-year basis to a 7-year seasonal…
Sub-2015 Pricing for a Coveted One-Bedroom
Purchased for $925,000 in September of 2013, 338 Spear Street #26G, a 807-square-foot, one-bedroom “with a coveted floor plan” at the Infinity resold for $1,175,000 in June of 2015, which…
Beware the Stinky Airbnb Bus/Van in San Francisco
According to the host’s profile on Airbnb, which has been “ID Checked,” he’s an “Interior designer for tech elite.” And while past listings for his “SF Batch Pad by bars,”…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Hovering Around 4.5 Percent
Having bounced around a narrow 15 basis point band over the past four months, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has been hovering around 4.5 percent over the…
Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Slip
Having inched up 0.9 in June, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, slipped 0.7 percent in July to…
Exceptional Cow Hollow Home in Contract
Purchased for $7.525 million, or roughly $1,597 per square foot in the fourth quarter of 2016, the contemporary Cow Hollow home with “a huge North Facing backyard drenched in sun”…
Fox Plaza’s Plans to Help Gentrify Its Neighborhood
While the approved plans to expand Fox Plaza remain on hold, the Plaza’s new ownership team is about to launch a two-pronged renovation project “to greatly improve the appearance” of…
Rincon Hill View Condo Nearly Fetches its 2016 Price
Purchased for a little over a million ($1,007,000) in January of 2016, the “exceptional” 710-square-foot, one-bedroom view condo #4905 atop One Rincon Hill returned to the market listed for a…
Index for Bay Area Home Values Inches Up, NY Slips, Vegas Jumps
Having ticked up 1.1 percent in May, 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…
Bigger Plans for Prominent Polk Street Corner
Plans to level the Out of The Closet thrift store complex on the southeast corner of Polk and California and develop a 7-story building with 63 condos over 8,000 square…