Bay Area Unemployment Hits 13 Percent, Labor Force Shrinks
Based on employment data through the second week of April, at which point the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was still picking up steam, the estimated number of San…
Bay Area Unemployment Claims Continue to Climb
Having already rocketed to over 44,300 in March, versus having averaged around 3,500 a month over the previous six years, the number of San Francisco residents that filed a new/initial…
Key Changes to the Bay Area’s Extended ‘Stay-at-Home’ Orders
The existing ‘stay-at-home’ orders for Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, which were slated to expire at 11:59 pm on May 3, have just…
Index for Bay Area Home Values Actually Inched Up, But…
Having slipped in January, 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 –…
Bay Area Employment Dropped by at Least 77,000 Last Month
Based on employment data through the second week of March, which predates the bulk of the ongoing economic impact caused by COVID-19, the estimated number of people living in San…
Explicit Changes to Local Stay-at-Home Orders
In addition to extending the existing ‘stay-at-home’ order for Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties through May 3, 2020, the revised order explicitly tightens…
Index for Bay Area Home Values Started the Year With a Slip
Having ended last year up 2.1 percent on a year-over-year basis but 1.3 percent below peak, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan…
Bay Area Employment Held Last Month, But…
Having been downwardly revised by the State at the start of the year, the estimated number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck inched up by 1,100 in…
Bay Area Employment Revised Down, Prior to Any COVID-19 Hit
The estimated number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck slipped from a (downwardly-revised) record 578,100 in December to 573,000 in January with typical seasonality in play. But…
Bay Area Employment Slows Its Roll
The number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck was effectively unchanged from November to December and is now holding around a record 580,000 with an unemployment rate…