Number of Homes on the Market in S.F. Is Ticking Up
Despite some industry misanalysis making the rounds at the end of last year, the net number of homes on the market in San Francisco has jumped 27 percent over the…
Formal Investigation Upends Local Favoritism Report
Prompted by a two-part hit piece published by Mission Local, a formal investigation by the City Attorney’s Office into alleged favoritism by the Interim Director of San Francisco’s Department of…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Jumps to a 22-Month High
In a move which shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage jumped 23 basis points (0.23 percentage points) over the past week…
Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Inches Down, But…
Having hit a pandemic high of 20.5 percent in the third quarter of last year, the effective office vacancy rate in San Francisco inched down to 19.9 percent at the…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Hits a 20-Month High
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up 11 basis points (0.11 percentage points) over the past week to 3.22 percent, which is 55 basis points higher than…
S.F. Will Soon Average Over 1,500 New COVID Cases Per Day
Based on our analysis of the City and County of San Francisco’s case data, the 7-day average number of daily new Covid-19 cases detected in San Francisco ticked over 1,000…
Indexes for Bay Area Home Values Hold, Poised to Turn
Having inched up 0.1 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…
COVID Rockets in San Francisco [UPDATED]
Compounded by an increase in the detection of asymptomatic cases that might have previously gone undetected, with proactive testing for holiday travel, parties and other get-togethers having jumped, the number…
Emergency Declaration for the Tenderloin Approved
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors have concurred with the Mayor’s Declaration of a Local Emergency in the Tenderloin, an area defined by the San Francisco Police Department’s Tenderloin District boundaries,…
New Unemployment Claims Near Pre-Pandemic Levels, But…
Having dropped to a pandemic-era low of 51,484 in October, the number of new unemployment claims filed across the Bay Area fell to 36,421 in November, which was within 40…