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While mortgage rates remain at historic lows (with plugged-in readers securing 4.375% 30-year rates), mortgage application volume for purchases in the U.S. remains down 38.8% on a year-over-year basis (up…
In 2004, the Cow Hollow condo at 2382 Union sold for $759,000 and was purchased with a variable rate first mortgage for $599,200 and a fixed rate second mortgage for…
While the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index rose 5.2 percent from June (75.5) to July (79.4). On a year-over-year basis, however, the index is now down 19.1…
According to the June 2010 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA rose a nominal 0.3% from May ’10 to June ’10, down 34.7% from…
Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco dropped 2.1% over the past two weeks on new sales, a slowdown in new listings and a seasonal…
Mortgage rates dropped to their lowest levels in at least 20 years last week. And while refinancing activity is up to its highest level in fifteen months, according to the…
On the heels of yesterday’s dismal existing home sale stats and a leading indicator, sales of new single-family U.S. homes fell to annual pace of 276,000 in July, down 12.4…
The First Republic Prestige Home Index for “San Francisco” homes valued at more than $1 million ticked up 1.8 percent from the first to second quarter of 2010, down 1.3…
The pace of U.S. existing home sales fell to an annual rate of 3.83 million units in July, a drop of 27.2 percent from June and a drop of 25.5…
Preliminary July labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties pegs the unemployment rate at 9.7%, 8.6% and 9.4% respectively, up 0.1 percentage points in San…