Plans to Bank This Mission District Lot Have Been Drawn
With an acceptable offer for the big Mission District parcel/parking lot on the corner of 16th Street and Shotwell, which was on the market for $10 million last year and…
Number of Homes on the Market in San Francisco Ticks Up
With new listings having outpaced sales over the past week, the net number of homes on the market in San Francisco has ticked up 3 percent to 1,240, representing the…
Rents in San Francisco Tick up but Still Depressed
The weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has ticked up 1.6 percent since the end of August to $3,425 per month. As such, while asking rents…
West Oakland Home Fetches “41 Percent Over Asking!” But…
As we outlined back in August: Designed by Baran Studio Architecture and listed for “$849,000” in June of 2016, despite its nearly identical sister home with a yellow door having…
Light House Condo Offered for 895 Bitcoin (in 2018) Sells
Purchased for $6.495 million in April of 2016, the 5,493-square-foot “Light House” condo at 651 Dolores Street, one of four condos within the converted Second Church of Christ Scientist, across…
Benchmark Mortgage Rate Jumps Back Above 3 Percent
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage jumped 13 basis points (0.13 percentage points) over the past week to 3.01 percent. While 3.02 percent is still historically low, with…
Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Recovered Last Month, But…
Having ticked down 1.8 percent in July, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, a seasonally adjusted index for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, recovered…
Purchase Mortgage Activity in the U.S. Ticks Down
Overall mortgage loan application volumes to either purchase or refinance a home in the U.S. ticked down 1.1 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis over the past week, according to…
Index Versus Reality for a Russian Hill View Unit
Featuring picture-postcard views, spanning from the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz and far beyond, the renovated unit #3C at 1080 Chestnut Street, which is a classic cooperative building “on one…
Index for Bay Area House Values Ticks Up 1.2 Percent
Having gained 2.7 percent in June, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay and…