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Speaking of foreclosure trends and activity in San Francisco, according to bureau spokeswoman Julie Sohn, “last week the FBI conducted interviews and executed search warrants through the entire Bay Area…
Eleven years ago the two bedroom and three bath townhouse known as 655 5th Street #9 sold for $781,000 down in SoMa. Seven years and a thousand or two new…
The Wall Street Journal reports: Wells Fargo & Co., the nation’s largest mortgage lender, has asked U.S. regulators to set a down-payment standard of 30% on mortgages that wouldn’t have…
After seven attempts, the owners of 74-76 Castro who reside in 76 Castro won the right to condo convert their two-unit building by way of the 2010 condominium conversion lottery.…
With 45 recorded sales to date in 2010, the median sale for condominiums in zip code 94123 (which includes the Marina and Cow Hollow) weighs in at $1,175,000, up 26…
In August 2006 it sold for $550,000 as a fixer, was remodeled (including the addition of two bedrooms and a bath), and then flipped four months later for $770,000 which…
Plugged-in people saw it coming over a year ago, and on San Francisco’s Land Use and Economic Development Committee agenda this afternoon: An ordinance amending San Francisco’s Residential Inclusionary Affordable…
Driven by a 44 percent drop in multifamily units, housing starts in the U.S. fell to a 519,000 annual rate in October, down 12 percent from September and the slowest…
The Federal Housing Administration released its annual report to Congress on the financial status of its Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund today. Since last year, the FHA’s capital reserve ratio fell…
“There has been a political and intellectual arrogance in San Francisco the United States that it won’t happen to us,” said Adam S. Posen, a senior fellow at the Peterson…