San Francisco Listed Sales Volume Up 8% In April On Condo Activity
The sales volume of listed single-family homes in San Francisco fell 5% on a year-over-year basis in April, down 10 sales from 201 in 2010 to 191 in 2011 as…
Climate Change Hits Home as the Bay Is Expected to Rise
The San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR) has just released Climate Change Hits Home, a policy paper which “addresses how we should adapt to climate change in the…
Tech Job Quote Triptych
“By the end of last year, San Francisco had an estimated 30,700 tech jobs, just shy of the 32,800 around the peak in early 2001…In Silicon Valley, tech positions reached…
An Apple Today Keeps The Foreclosure Man Away
As we reported in January: Purchased for $2,660,000 in April 2006 with 25 percent ($532,000) down but a second added for $182,000 two months later, the fully remodeled Victorian home…
San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory Update: May 2, 2011
Inventory of listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco fell 1.4% over the past two weeks to 1,529 active listings, driven by an uptick in sales activity rather…
S&P/Case-Shiller: San Francisco Value Decline Accelerated In Feb
According to the February 2011 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA fell 2.6% from January ’11 to February ’11, down 40.5% from a peak…
Existing U.S. Home Sales Pace Down 6.3% Year-Over-Year In March
The pace of seasonally adjusted existing-home sales in the U.S. increased 3.7 percent from an upwardly revised 4.92 million in February to a 5.10 million pace in March, down 6.3…
Cut? What Cut? (As The S&P Bounces 1.4 Percent)
“Global stocks rallied the most this year and the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged to an almost three-year high as Intel Corp. forecast higher sales and company results in Europe…
San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity Down 1.0% In March
Recorded home sales volume in San Francisco fell 1.0% on a year-over-year basis last month (495 recorded sales in March 2011 versus 500 sales in March 2010), up 45.6% as…
San Francisco County Unemployment Holds At 9.1% In March
Preliminary March labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties pegs the unemployment rate at 9.1%, 8.0% and 8.4% respectively, unchanged in San Francisco, up 0.2…