Homebuying Activity Slips, Jumbo Loan Appetite Has Dropped
The number of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for an existing home in the U.S. ticked down a (1) percent over the past week. And having ticked down…
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Exceptional NoPa Condo Fetches an “Over Asking” Price, But…
Purchased for $1.42 million in July of 2018, the two-bedroom condo at 1735 Grove, in a three-unit building “on a quiet, tree-lined street in the heart of NOPA,” was subsequently…
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Vacant Residential Development Repositioned, Reduced
Designed and developed by Stanley Saitowitz, the modern new 25-unit building at 603 Tennessee Street, across the street from UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus, a block from Chase Center and a…
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No Appreciation for a High-Tech Noe Valley Home
Speaking of high-end San Francisco homes, re-sales and neighborhoods, the “luxury high-tech” Noe Valley home at 33 Day Street, recently resold for $4.7 million, having been priced at $5.495 million…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Inches Back Over 6.4 Percent
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched up another 4 basis points (0.04 percentage point) over the past week to 6.43 percent, continuing a trend that shouldn’t catch…
Storied North Beach Venue Now Going the “Auction” Route
Despite having been reduced from $8.35 million to $7.5 million last year, a sale at which would have equaled roughly $511 per listed square foot, versus an estimated replacement cost…
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Index for Bay Area Home Values Ticks Up, Down 10 Percent YOY
Having dropped for eight months in a row, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North…
Pace of New Home Sales Jumps, Still Down YOY
The seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. jumped 9.6 percent in March to an annualized rate of 683,000 sales but was still 3.4 percent lower…
Inventory Levels Tick Up in San Francisco, Price Per Foot Down
The net number of single-family homes and condos on the market in San Francisco ticked up another 4 percent over the past week with typical seasonality in play. As such,…
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Modern $10 Million Cow Hollow Home in Contract
Quietly purchased for $9.75 million in March of 2015, which was nearly 23 percent more than the home had fetched in 2012, despite the “short term hold” and it having…