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The framework for a new inter-agency strategy to coordinate the potential development of underutilized publicly-owned sites across San Francisco will be presented to the Planning Commission this week. The Commission…
According to the 10th Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey of 360 housing markets worldwide, “San Francisco” is the third least affordable major metropolitan area, behind only Vancouver and Hong Kong,…
At the heart of Mayor Lee’s state of the city address this morning, a seven point plan to address San Francisco’s housing “crisis” with a goal of adding at least…
The average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage ticked down from 4.51 to 4.41 percent over the past week, 17 basis points below the 4.58 percent two-year high rate recorded…
“Despite an economic outlook of steady growth and a recovering job market, mortgage applications have been decreasing – likely due to a combination of rising rates and regulatory implementation, specifically…
With a current vacancy rate of just over 8 percent, the lowest rate since the fourth quarter of 2000, the average asking rent for office space in San Francisco is…
Concerned that the Ellis Act is increasingly “being used, not by long-term owners of rental property as the law intended, but instead by new owners who purchase the building with…
The average rate for a conforming 30-year mortgage ticked up to 4.53 percent over the past week to within 5 basis points of the 4.58 percent two-year high recorded this…
The National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index inched up a nominal 0.2 percent in November, the second lowest level for the seasonally adjusted index in 2013 and down…
As we first reported last December, with over 500 homes being taken back by the bank or sold to a third party on the courthouse steps, 2012 was the peak…