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Inventory of listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco increased 2.3 percent over the past two weeks to 1,598 active listings. Over the past five years, listed inventory…
Preliminary May labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties pegs the unemployment rate at 8.4%, 7.4% and 8.1% respectively, down 0.1 percentage points in San…
“Americans’ views on the economy’s outlook soured in June, showing that unemployment, inflation and the slump in housing are concerning consumers. The Bloomberg gauge of economic expectations dropped to minus…
Recorded home sales volume in San Francisco fell 20.1% on a year-over-year basis last month (492 recorded sales in May 2011 versus 616 sales in May 2010), up 16.6% as…
From Bloomberg: A surge in wealth from technology stock sales and initial public offerings is spilling into the Silicon Valley real estate market as newly rich workers bid up home…
The sales volume of listed single-family homes in San Francisco fell 11.4% on a year-over-year basis in May, down 27 sales from 236 in 2010 to 209 in 2011 as…
From Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke this afternoon summarizing the outlook for the U.S. economy: Although it is moving in the right direction, the economy is still producing at levels…
Inventory of listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco dropped 1% over the past three weeks to 1,562 active listings, right in line with the average drop of…
From the summary of the Planning Department’s recently released report profiling demographic, housing, employment and commuting statistics for San Francisco’s neighborhoods: San Francisco’s 2010 population – at 805,330 – has…
According to the March 2011 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA fell a nominal 0.1% from February ’11 to March ’11, down 40.6% from…