COVID Test Positive Rate Hits a 15-Month High in S.F. [UPDATED]
The COVID-19 test positivity rate in San Francisco just hit 5.8 percent, which is significantly higher than the 3.7 percent positive rate at the peak of the first wave, in…
Mortgage Rates Keep Inching Down, Another Record Low
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched down 3 basis points (0.03 percentage points) over the past week to 2.77 percent, which is 11 basis points below its…
New Plans for Big Polk Gulch Infill Project
The Planning Department’s preliminary review of the draft plans for a 16-story building, with 198 units of senior housing, to rise on the northeast corner of Larkin and Bush has…
Purchase Mortgage Activity in the U.S. Down 18 Percent YOY
Mortgage loan application volume in the U.S. slipped 2 percent over the past week according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, and that’s despite the benchmark 30-year mortgage rate having dropped…
Landmark Bank and Former MOIC Building on the Market
Designed by Bliss and Faville and built on the northwest corner of Grant and O’Farrell in 1910, the historic Savings Union Bank building at 1 Grant Avenue, a.k.a. the Security…
Proposed Potrero Hill Lab Development Closer to Reality
Plans to disassemble, remove and otherwise demolish the California Mini Storage shipping container site at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue are in the works. And as designed and newly refined by Workshop1,…
Listed Inventory Is Down 40 Percent in San Francisco, But…
Driven by a continued drop in new listing activity, as is typical for this time of the year, the net number of homes for sale across San Francisco ticked down…