Asking Rents Slip in San Francisco, Nearing Peak in Oakland
The weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco, including one-off rentals as well as units in larger developments, dropped a little over 5 percent over the past…
Bay Area Employment Slips, Unemployment Inches Up Anew
Having inched up in October, the number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck was unchanged in November and remains at a record 580,000 with an unemployment rate…
Bonus Plans for Building Up Berkeley’s San Pablo Avenue
The refined plans for a new six-story infill building to rise up to 64 feet in height at 1835 San Pablo Avenue in West Berkeley, upon the shuttered Midas shop’s…
Bay Area Employment Slips, Unemployment Inches Up
Having benefited from a seasonal bump in the onboarding of new graduates in September, the number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck inched up by another 100…
Once in a Lifetime Opportunity Fails to Fetch its 2017 Price
As we outlined this past July: Designed by Alan Page and built on a nearly one-acre lot “in the heart of Lafayette’s sought–after Happy Valley,” the roughly 6,000-square-foot home at…
First Platinum Certified Home in Northern CA Fetches $885 per Foot
The first LEED Platinum Certified home in Northern California was built on a Rockridge lot with views at 5950 Margarido Drive and hit the market in the fourth quarter of…
Home Prices Rise in 93 Percent of Metro Areas, Bay Area Excluded
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…
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Appreciation for Bay Area Homes Turns Negative
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…
Asking Rents Tick up in Oakland, Slip in San Francisco
The weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco, including one-off rentals as well as units in larger developments, slipped another (1) percent over the past month with…
Office Vacancy Rate in Oakland Ticks Up, But…
The vacancy rate for East Bay office space around Oakland has ticked up from 9.5 percent at the beginning of the year to 11.9 percent today, driven by the delivery…