Category: Real Estate Economics

Having dropped 8 percent in August, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. jumped 12.3 percent in September to an annual rate of 759,000 sales,…

While “only down 17 percent” versus the same time last year, the net number of single-family homes and condos in contract to be sold across San Francisco is over 50…

Having dropped by an upwardly revised 7,300 in August, the number of San Francisco residents with a job inched up by 600 in September to 557,600 but was down by…

The office vacancy rate in the East Bay, not including Walnut Creek or further east nor life science/lab space, inched up 50 basis points in the third quarter of this…

With purchase mortgage loan application volume for existing homes on the decline, application volume for new home loan purchases in the U.S. dropped 12 percent from August to September and…

The effective office vacancy rate in San Francisco hit 30 percent at the end of last month, representing nearly 26 million square feet of vacant office space now spread across…

Having inched up 1 percent the week prior, the number of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for an existing home in the U.S., which is a leading indicator,…

With inventory levels ticking back up and the pace of sales having slowed, the percentage of homes on the market in San Francisco with an “asking price” that has been…

Having jumped 18 basis points (0.18 percentage points) last week to 7.49 percent, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has since ticked up another 8 basis points to…

Purchased for $695,000 in May of 2015, the top-floor, junior one-bedroom “penthouse” unit #813 at 45 Bartlett Street (a.k.a. Vida, “in the heart of the bustling Mission District”), returned to…