Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Hit a Record High
Having ticked up 5.9 percent in July, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, a seasonally adjusted index for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, rose…
Small Business Eviction Can Kicked Down the Road
With Governor Gavin Newsom having inked an extension of Executive Order N-28-20 last week, which will allow local jurisdictions in California to continue banning the eviction of commercial tenants impacted…
Index for Bay Area Home Values Inches Up and Down
Having slipped in May and June, 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 and…
San Francisco Rents Just Dropped Even More
Having slipped under $3,600 in August, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has just dropped to under $3,400 a month, which is down nearly 6…
Sub-Million Dollar Listing Levels Tick Up in San Francisco
Having hit a 9-year high earlier this month, the number of homes on the market which have been listed for under a million dollars has since ticked up another 15…
New Claims Drop but Ongoing Unemployment Ticks Up
While the number of San Francisco residents that filed a new/initial unemployment claim dropped 16.5 percent to 21,332 August, from 25,534 in July, and the unemployment rate declined with a…
Refined Plans for Building Up Central SoMa
While plans to construct a new six-story building rising up to 65 feet in height behind the brick façade of the two-story building at 531-535 Bryant Street, which was built…
New San Francisco Flower Mart Closer to Reality
With the San Francisco Flower Mart Tenants Association having opted to permanently relocate rather than return to a new and improved Flower Mart at 6th and Brannan, once the existing…
Pace of New Home Sales in the U.S. Ticks Up, Inventory Drops
Having jumped over 14 percent in July, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ticked up another 4.8 percent in August to an annualized rate…
No Red Flags for Bigger North Beach Project as Envisioned
As we revealed earlier this year: Having never recovered from stated concerns that a proposed four-story hotel to rise on the former Tower Records Annex turned bike rental parcel at…