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Last week Freddie Mac requested $10.6 billion in government assistance following an $8 billion loss in the first quarter of 2010, today Fannie Mae requested $8.4 billion having lost $11.5…
∙ U.S. Stocks Plunge Most in Year as ’Panic Selling’ Grips Market ∙ 2430 Scott Street: An Entirely Different Dow Theory In Action?
It’s a guest editorial from Rincon Hill resident Jamie Whitaker related to yesterday’s Board of Supervisors’ approval of $1,844,273 in grants from the SOMA Community Stabilization Fund (funded by way…
A plugged-in reader correctly takes us to task for not previously covering the San Francisco School Board’s decision to enact a new school assignment system. So we’ll just co-opt her…
As we wrote this past January: Purchased for $1,075,000 in January 2007, the single-family 435 Vermont returned to the market last July seeking $1,165,000. In October the asking price was…
Purchased for $2,360,000 in June of 1999, 2430 Scott was remodeled and its garage expanded in the year 2000. Resold in June 2007 for $4,200,000, the Pacific Heights property returned…
“Fixed mortgage rates likely will rise less than a quarter of a percentage point in the next three months, the smallest increase for the second quarter since a drop in…
From Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program by way of Bloomberg: “ risks helping few, and for the rest, merely spreading out the foreclosure…
Call it anything but altruistic, but Bank of America has announced a new focus on principal forgiveness – versus interest rate reductions – for its portfolio of highest risk loans.…
While a standard seasonality bump from January to February should be kicking up the pace of existing U.S. home sales, “purchases dropped 0.6 percent to a 5.02 million annual rate”…