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While mortgage credit conditions in the U.S. remain “generally tight,” and applications for purchase mortgages remain “tepid,” according to the Fed, signs of easing continue to emerge, including indications of…
Designed to protect long-term homeowners from a spike in property taxes as property values rise, California Proposition 13 freezes the tax assessed value of a property at its purchase price…
With the number of San Francisco residents with jobs having increased by 10,000 over the past year, the unemployment rate in the city has dropped to 4.4 percent and employment…
Having dropped to a six-month low last week, the average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage has ticked down one more basis point to 4.20 percent, 38 basis points below…
Bay Area home sales were relatively flat in April, dropping 0.9 percent year-over-year. The number of homes sold in San Francisco last month was relatively flat as well, dropping a…
With a median single-family home sale price of $808,000 in the first quarter of 2014, “San Jose” ranked as the most expensive major metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United…
Set at 80 percent of the combined land and structure values of single-family homes in San Francisco, the threshold for “demonstrably unaffordable and financially inaccessible housing” in the city is…
The average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage ticked down from 4.29 to 4.21 percent over the past week, the lowest rate in six months and 37 basis points below…
Priced at $26 a share, Twitter stock started trading around $45 in November and closed its first day of trading at $41.65. Having reached a high of $73.31 in December,…
With 18,087 housing units built in San Francisco since 2007 and another 12,340 units entitled for development, San Francisco is within 2.5 percent of the minimum number of housing units…