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Prepared in response to proposed legislation which would further expand formula retail controls in San Francisco, San Francisco’s Office of Economic Analysis (OEA) has concluded that formula retail controls could…
Board of Supervisors President David Chiu is calling for legislation that would not only give tenants in San Francisco the right of first refusal to purchase their building “at fair…
While fewer than 2,000 new housing units and 140,000 square feet of commercial space in San Francisco was completed in 2013, there were roughly 6,000 housing units and 2.8 million…
Based on 2012 tax returns, the median income for joint filers in California was $70,938, an increase of 4.1 percent over 2011 according to the Franchise Tax Board. The California…
With weaker housing data continuing to weigh on the market, the average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage fell from 4.32 to 4.23 percent over the past week and is…
While the application volume for home purchase loans in the U.S. increased 14 percent last week versus the week before, a typical seasonal move, the volume is down 17 percent…
Supervisor David Campos will introduce legislation this afternoon that would require landlords in San Francisco who evoke the Ellis Act to pay evicted tenants the difference between their current rent…
Responding to an executive directive from Mayor Lee last month, a working group co-chaired by the directors of San Francisco’s Planning Department and Department of Building Inspection has drafted a…
The average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage ticked down from 4.39 to 4.32 percent over the past week, 26 basis points below the 4.58 percent two-year high rate recorded…
The unemployment rate in San Francisco fell from 5.2 percent in November to 4.8 percent in December, the first time the unemployment rate in the city has been below 5…