Rents in S.F. Holding Below Pre-Pandemic Levels, Availability Up
The weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco was unchanged over the past month, holding at around $3,600, which is 5 percent higher than at the same…
More Height for Market-Rate Tower Closer to Reality
As we revealed at the end of last year, a modification to the approved plans for Related California’s 365-foot-tall tower to rise on the parking lot parcel at 98 Franklin…
Pace of New Home Sales Slips Despite More Activity/Discounts
Driven by discounting and concessions, as home builders are more “motivated to sell homes in their construction pipeline,” versus existing-home owners that might try to hold out for last year’s…
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Single-Family Home Inventory Is Building Up
While the number of homes listed for sale in San Francisco ticked down 7 percent in the absolute over the past week with typical seasonality in play, there are still…
Visualizing the Burgeoning Hub District Plan(s)
As newly rendered by SOM along with the first two Hub District towers that have risen at 1580 Mission and 30 Otis and already yielded nearly 1,000 units of housing,…
Pace of New Home Sales Ticks Up, Still Down
Having dropped in September, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ticked up 7.5 percent in October to an annualized rate of 632,000 sales, which…
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San Francisco’s Housing Pipeline Hits a New High
The total number of units in San Francisco’s housing pipeline, including affordable units that are slated to be rebuilt, hit a record high of over 80,000 in the first quarter…
Approved Tower Pushed Back, Parking Lot Extension Sought
As we outlined back in September of 2020: Having been approved back in 2016 but yet to break ground, the entitlements for a skinny 495-foot-tall tower to rise at 524…
Purchase Activity for New Homes in the U.S. Continues to Drop
Despite the fact that the number of new homes on the market across the U.S. is over 30 percent higher than at the same time last year, with the most…
Construction of Prominent Hub District Tower Has Commenced
With the prominent Hub District site having been completely cleared, which is a departure from what was originally planned, construction on the 47-story tower to rise up to 540 feet…