Existing U.S. Sales Pace And Supply Slip In May, Median Ticks Up
The pace of seasonally adjusted existing-home sales in the U.S. declined 1.5 percent from an upwardly revised 4.62 million in April to a 4.55 million pace in May, up 9.6…
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The pace of seasonally adjusted existing-home sales in the U.S. declined 1.5 percent from an upwardly revised 4.62 million in April to a 4.55 million pace in May, up 9.6…
Housing starts in the U.S. slipped 4.8 percent from April to May, once again driven by a slowdown in the multi-family housing sector as starts for structures with five (5)…
As we first reported last month (and back in 2008): Following a Boor Bridges led renovation over which a reader waxed poetic and the builder chimed in, the 840 square…
Preliminary May labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties pegs the unemployment rates at 7.4%, 6.3% and 6.8% respectively, unchanged in San Francisco and San…
Recorded home sales volume in San Francisco rose 14.8% on a year-over-year basis last month (565 recorded sales in May 2012 versus 492 sales in May 2011), up 11.0% as…
According to Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates averaged 3.67 percent (with 0.7 points) for the week ending today, another new all-time low, down from…
As we wrote under the headline, “Look Past The Overhyped Facebook Effect” in February: Forget the overhyped Facebook effect (a.k.a. “buy now or be priced out forever 2.0”) and simply…
While the rate of U.S. home price declines slowed to a nominal 0.1 percent in March, the National Associations of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index fell 5.5 percent from March…
According to the March 2012 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA gained 1.0% from February 2012 to March 2012 but remain down 3.0% year-over-year,…
The seasonally adjusted annual pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. rose to 343,000 in April, up 3.3 percent from a revised rate of 332,000 in March and…