Mortgage Rates Holding Near Record Lows
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage, which inched up 10 basis points (0.10 percentage points) two weeks ago, has effectively held at 2.87 percent, which is 4 basis…
Home Buying Activity in San Francisco Continues to Slow
Having peaked in April, the number of single-family homes and condos in contract to be sold across San Francisco has since dropped 25 percent, albeit with typical seasonality in play.…
New Home Inventory Up 26 Percent in the U.S., Sales Down
While the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ticked up 1.0 percent in July to an annualized rate of 708,000 sales, the current pace of…
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West Oakland Déjà Vu
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 sold for $1.025 million the month…
Over 400K Bay Area Jobs Have Been Recovered, 248K Left to Go
Having increased by a downwardly revised 3,500 in June, the number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck jumped by 12,200 in July to 532,400, representing the most…
Pace of Existing-Home Sales Ticks Up, Median Price Slips
The seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. ticked up 2.0 percent last month to an annual rate of 5.99 million sales, which was 1.5 percent higher than…
San Francisco Rents Tick Up, Listing Activity Too
While the rebound in San Francisco apartment rents has slowed, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in the city has ticked up around 1.5 percent ($50) over the…
Purchase Mortgage Activity in the U.S. Drops
Mortgage loan application volume in the U.S. dropped 4 percent over the past week, or 3.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. While the…
Number of Homes for Sale in S.F. Ticks Down, Poised to Jump
Having ticked down 1 percent over the past week with typical seasonality in play, the net number of homes for sale across the city (880) is still running around 40…
Apples-to-Apples Versus Index for a Coveted One-Bedroom
Purchased for $1.025 million in June of 2015, the “coveted corner one-bedroom” unit #807 in the One Rincon Hill tower at 425 1st Street returned to the market priced at…