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According to Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates averaged 3.56 percent (with 0.7 points) for the week ending today, another new all-time low, down from…
According to the April 2012 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA rose 3.4% from March 2012 to April 2012, down 1.4% year-over-year, down 40.4%…
Having ticked up in April, pre-foreclosure activity in San Francisco has fallen 17 percent over the past two months with 397 properties in the pipeline, 39 percent of which are…
The seasonally adjusted annual pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. rose to 369,000 in May, up 7.6 percent from a revised rate of 343,000 in April and…
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…