Benchmark Mortgage Rate Nears a 23-Year High, Jumbos Jump
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up another 12 basis points (0.12 percentage points) over the past week to 7.31 percent, which is 61 basis points higher…
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High-End Pied-à-Terre Relisted Anew at a Larger Loss
As we outlined earlier this year, unit #2E at 288 Pacific Avenue, “the perfect SF pied-a-terre” and “urban home in a beautiful full-service building…directly across the street from the Battery…
Apples-to-Apples for an Elegant Nob Hill Pad
Purchased for $1,275,000 in October of 2019, the “elegant and spacious” unit #502 at 850 Powell Street, an 1,800-square-foot, three-bedroom condo in the “fabulous luxury doorperson building” dubbed The Francesca,…
Purchase Mortgage Activity Ticks Down
The number of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for an existing home in the U.S., which dropped back down to a 28-year low earlier this month, ticked down…
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A Modernized Bayview Home Returns
Taken “down to the studs” and modernized, “with no details left unfinished,” the remodeled four-bedroom Bayview home at 1119 Hollister sold for $1.15 million in 2019 and then again for…
New Home Sales Drop Below Pre-Pandemic Pace, Prices Slip
Having ticked up an upwardly revised 8.0 percent in July, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. dropped 8.7 percent in August to an annual…
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Index for Bay Area Home Values Inches Up, Down YOY
Having inched up an upwardly revised 0.2 percent in June, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area (i.e., “San Francisco,” which includes…
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Big Bernal Heights Infill Project Parcels Reduced, Again
Listed for $3.5 million eight months ago, with big plans for ten new “luxurious view residences” to rise on and behind the undeveloped Bernal Heights lot(s) at 1513 York Street…
Inventory Levels Tick Up in San Francisco, Poised to Peak
The net number of homes on the market in San Francisco, including both condos and single-family homes, ticked up another 6 percent over the past week, driven by an ongoing…
Polk Gulch Garage to Be Preserved, Demand for Parking Grows
While the supersized plans for redeveloping the Polk Gulch funeral home site at 1123 Sutter Street, along with the adjacent three-story garage at the corner of Sutter and Larkin, were…