Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops, Inventory Inches Up
While home sales in San Francisco totaled a ten-year low in the first quarter of 2019, the pace of sales turned up at the end of March and April sales…
Bay Area Employment Really Drops, Unemployment Rate as Well
While the unemployment rate in San Francisco returned to a record low 2.1 percent last month, the drop was driven by a reduction in the size of the labor force…
Wiener’s Big Housing Bill (SB 50) Shelved Anew
Following in the footsteps of Senator Scott Wiener’s original “transit-rich housing bonus” Bill 827 which was killed last year, Wiener’s follow-up bill, Senate Bill 50 (SB 50), which would allow…
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Population Growth of San Francisco Really Slows Its Roll
Having grown at an average rate of over one percent per year over the past decade, peaking at 1.7 percent in 2012, the estimated population of San Francisco proper inched…
Bay Area Home Sales Are Down, Median Price Has Slipped
Following a trend which shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, while the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area increased a seasonally…
Trust Staff Pans Plans for 30-Acre Redevelopment in the Presidio
As requested by the Presidio Trust’s Board of Directors, the Trust’s staff has completed an in-depth review of the now singular proposal to redevelop the 30-acre Fort Winfield Scott campus…
Supervisors Reverse Approval of Western SoMa Development
While approved by Planning at the end of last year, an appeal aiming to block the plans for a seven-story development to rise on the northwest corner of Folsom and…
Mortgage Rates Dramatically Drop, Inversion Spreads
With Fed officials having officially deemed the foregoing of any additional interest rate hikes in 2019 to “be best” for our economy in light of increasing global risks, which shouldn’t…
Bay Area Employment Inches Up to Another Record High
With 2018 having ended the year with Bay Area employment at an all-time high, the number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck has since inched up 700…
Fed Officials Officially Drop Expectations of a Rate Hike in 2019
According to an analysis of the futures market, the probability of the Fed hiking the federal funds rate in 2019 had dropped to zero (0) as of last week, as…