Having dropped to an absolute 11-year low in January, the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area increased 12.9 percent in February to 4,354, which was an above-average seasonal jump but remains 12.8 percent below the sales volume at the same time... Read More »

The pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ended 2018 at a seasonally adjusted rate of 621,000 sales, down 2.4 percent on a year-over-year basis but with a total of 1.5 percent more new homes having sold across all twelve months of 2018 versus 2017. At the... Read More »

The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area totaled 3,857 in January, down 14.9 percent on a year-over-year basis. And in addition to representing another 11-year seasonal low, last month’s sales were an 11-year low in the absolute as well, according to... Read More »

The seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. dropped another 1.2 percent last month to an annual rate of 4.94 million sales, which is 8.5 percent lower versus the same time last year, the third consecutive month-over-month decline and the slowest overall pace of sales since the... Read More »

Having dropped to a 9-month low at the beginning of the year, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage, which hit a 7-year high of 4.94 percent this past November, has inched down another 4 basis points to a 10-month low of 4.41 percent, according to Freddie Mac’s... Read More »

The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area totaled 5,341 this past December, that’s down 13.2 percent from November (versus typically ticking up), down 21.6 percent on a year-over-year basis, and the lowest December sales total since 2007, which marks another 11-year seasonal low,... Read More »

Having declined 0.7 percent in November, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, dropped another 2.2 percent in December to a below-average 99.0 and is now running 9.8 percent lower on a year-over-year basis and 11.8 percent below... Read More »

Having slipped another 0.7 percent in November, 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 Peninsula – has shed 1.4 percent over the past quarter and its year-over-year gain has dropped nearly five... Read More »

The seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. dropped 6.4 percent at the end of 2018 to an annual rate of 4.99 million sales, which is 10.3 percent lower versus the same time last year according to the National Association of Realtors, down from 7.0 percent lower... Read More »

As we first reported this past September: While the approval process for a 36-story tower designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, in collaboration with Mark Cavagnero Associates, to rise up to 405-feet in height at 555 Howard Street was, in fact, fast-tracked by Planning, and the development was approved... Read More »