1855 Laguna: Nudged To Market In Lower Pacific Heights
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 at 1855 Laguna with a…
U.S. New Home Sales: Down 7.6% In December (YOY), 14.2% in 2010
The pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. jumped 17.5 percent from a revised 280,000 annual rate in November 2010 to 329,000 in December but remains 7.6 percent…
S&P: San Francisco Home Values Fell Across The Board In November
According to the November 2010 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA fell 1.2% from October ’10 to November ’10, down 37.2% from a peak…
San Francisco County Unemployment Falls To 9.2% In December
Preliminary December labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties pegs the unemployment rate at 9.2%, 7.9% and 8.3% respectively, down 0.4 percentage points in San…
San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity Down 1.6% YOY In December
Recorded home sales volume in San Francisco fell 1.6% on a year-over-year basis last month (491 recorded sales in December ’10 versus 499 sales in December ‘09), up 19.8% as…
Existing U.S. Home Sales Pace Up 12.3%, Down 2.9% Year-Over-Year
The pace of seasonally adjusted existing-home sales in the U.S. jumped 12.3 percent from a revised 4.7 million in November to 5.28 million in December, down 2.9 percent on a…
San Francisco Bucks CA Foreclosure Trends, But Not In A Good Way
Perhaps not as dangerous as some bad LSD, but there’s some bad data being passed around San Francisco by a brokerage or two with respect to market distress. Or more…
San Francisco Housing Inventory: Starting 2011 At A Six-Year High
The model we’ve used to track listed housing inventory over the past five years suggested we’d see a 17.4 percent increase in listed San Francisco inventory over the past two…
Jackson Square For 34 38 Percent Less In 2011
Plugged-in people knew the short sale had been approved and the list price reduced to $480,000, a sale at which would have been a 34 percent drop in value for…
One Rincon Hill ’08’s Appear To Have Slipped More (Not Less) In 2010
As we wrote this past June: Hours after our noting the bank-owned listing for 425 1st Street #3908 at $695,000, the sales office at One Rincon Hill reduced the list…