QuickLinks: Another Foreclosure Wave Forming Just Offshore?
∙ Owners Stop Paying Mortgages, and Stop Fretting ∙ Foreclosures shifting to affluent ZIP codes ∙ Interest-only loans meteoric rise in the Bay Area
SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory: 6/1/10
Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco rose 0.8% over the past three weeks versus an average 1.1% decline for the same three weeks over…
“San Francisco” Prestige Index Up 1.1% In First Quarter
The First Republic Prestige Home Index for “San Francisco” homes valued at more than $1 million ticked up 1.1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2009 to the first quarter…
Requests For Reductions In Residential Assessments Up 46 Percent
Perhaps due in part to the ease of starting the process online this year (as plugged-in people knew), 6,462 requests for reductions in residential property assessments were received by San…
U.S. New Home Sales Up 48% YOY As Tax Credits Expire
Purchases of new homes in the U.S. increased to an annual pace of 504,000 in April, up 15 percent from a revised March (439,000) and up 48 percent on a…
March Case-Shiller Index: Mixed Messages For San Francisco MSA
According to the March 2010 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA rose 1.5% from February ’10 to March ’10, down 37.4% from a peak…
Existing U.S. Home Sales Up In April Along With Inventory
Existing U.S. home sales jumped 26 percent on a year-over-year basis to a 5.77 million annual rate in April, the deadline month to be in contract in order to qualify…
San Francisco County Unemployment At 9.6 Percent In April
Preliminary April labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties puts the unemployment rate at 9.6%, 8.3% and 9.2% respectively, down 0.7 percentage points in San…
San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity In April: Up 6.5% YOY
According to DataQuick, recorded home sales volume in San Francisco was up 6.5% on a year-over-year basis last month (428 recorded sales in April ’10 versus 402 sales in April…
Residential Mortgage Foreclosures Rise In The First Quarter Of 2010
The percentage of U.S. residential mortgages in foreclosure rose 5 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2009 to 4.63 percent in the first quarter of 2010, up 78 basis…