According to the National Association of Realtors, “single-family median home prices increased year-over-year in 93% of measured markets in the third quarter, with 166 of 178 metropolitan statistical areas showing sales price gains” and an average gain of 5.1 percent over the past year.  And that’s up from 91... Read More »

As we outlined early last year, while plans for a skinny 495-foot-tall tower with up to 334 condos, or 72 condos over a 273-room hotel, “depending upon market conditions,” were approved to rise on the downtown parking lot parcel at 524 Howard Street back in 2016, the ground has... Read More »

For the first time since early 2012, 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 dropped on a year-over-year basis, an outcome which shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise.... Read More »

As we outlined back in the first quarter of this year: “Touting its location, location, location on “one of the most coveted blocks in Dolores Heights,” a block and a half from Dolores Park, the “one-of-a-kind home” at 352 Cumberland Street, which totals around 2,800 square feet (including two... Read More »

The number of San Francisco homes that sold in the first half of this year totaled a little under 2,700. That’s down a little over 8 percent versus the roughly 2,900 sales in the first half of 2018 and the fewest first-half sales in San Francisco since 2011 when... Read More »

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 »