San Francisco Employment Trends And Dot-Com Context
As we first reported a week ago, roughly 20,000 workers have joined the workforce in San Francisco over the past year with total employment at 432,600 and an unemployment rate…
Surprised By A Spike In San Francisco Rents? There’s No Excuse.
According to RealFacts, the average asking price for a rental in large apartment buildings in San Francisco increased almost 16 percent from the first quarter of 2011 to the first…
S&P/Case-Shiller San Francisco: Home/Condo Prices Dropped In Feb
According to the February 2012 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA fell 0.7% from January 2012 to February 2012, down 4.1% year-over-year, down 42.9%…
Pre-Foreclosure Activity Ticks Back Up In San Francisco
Having slowed down in the first quarter of 2012, pre-foreclosure activity has picked back up in San Francisco over the past month with 480 properties in the pipeline, 36 percent…
San Francisco Employment Up By 2,000 In March, Up 20,000 YOY
Preliminary March labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties pegs the unemployment rates at 8.1%, 7.0% and 7.5% respectively, unchanged in San Francisco, up 0.4…
Recorded San Francisco Sales Up 11.3% In March (Year-Over-Year)
Recorded home sales volume in San Francisco rose 11.3% on a year-over-year basis last month (551 recorded sales in March 2012 versus 495 sales in March 2011), up 48.5% as…
Housing Starts Slip From February But Remain Up Year-Over-Year
Housing starts in the U.S. slipped 5.8 percent from February to March driven by a slowdown in the multi-family housing sector as starts for structures with five (5) or more…
15-Year Mortgage Rates Hit All-Time Low As Purchase Activity Drops
According to Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rates averaged 3.88 percent (with 0.7 points) for the week ending today, down from 3.98 percent last week,…
S&P/Case-Shiller San Francisco: Home/Condo Prices Drop In January
According to the January 2012 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA fell 2.5% from December 2011 to January 2012, down 5.9% year-over-year, down 42.5%…
San Francisco Misses Inman’s Global Homebuyers Hot Spot Cut
According to the National Association of Realtors, Canadians accounted for 23 percent of foreign buyers of U.S. real estate with Chinese accounting for the second highest share at 9 percent.…