Benchmark Mortgage Rate Inches up, Odds of a Rate Hike Hold
The average rate for a 30-year mortgage inched up 3 basis points to 3.46 percent over the past week following Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s monetary policy speech which suggested the…
Even Odds of a Rate Hike by the End of the Year
The average rate for a 30-year mortgage (3.43 percent) hasn’t moved much over the past month. But with traders poised to dissect tomorrow’s scheduled “Monetary Policy Toolkit” speech by Federal…
Number of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Ticks Up
At a time of the year when the inventory of single-family homes and condos on the market in San Francisco is typically on the decline, the number of homes currently…
Bay Area Employment Jumped Like Kris Kross in July
With school year seasonality and an influx of interns in play, both the labor force and number of people living in San Francisco with a job jumped like Kris Kross…
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Another $350K Cut for That Barge, Cottage and Harbor on the Bay
Listed for $3.8 million nearly two years ago, and reduced to $3.3 million in mid-2015, the asking price for BayHaven Harbor at 60 Varda Landing, which consists of an on-land…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Drops along with Probability of a Hike
Having ticked up over the past three weeks, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has dropped to 3.43 percent, which is down 5 basis points over the past…
Bay Area Unemployment Rates Jump, but Here’s Why
While the unemployment rate in San Francisco jumped from 2.9 percent in May to 3.5 percent in June, there are actually 400 more people living in the city with a…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Ticks Up
Having dipped to within 10 basis points of an all-time low, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up 4 basis points to 3.45 percent over the past…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Approaching an All-Time Low
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has dropped to 3.41 percent over the past week, the lowest rate in over three years and within 10 basis points of…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Nearing an All-Time Low
With the unexpected result of the Brexit vote roiling the financial markets, resulting in a flight to quality and driving the yield on the 10-year Treasury down, the average rate…