U.S. New Home Sales Up 13% YOY As Credits Set To Expire
Purchases of new homes in the U.S. increased 27 percent from February to March to an annual pace of 411,000. That’s up 13 percent on a year-over-year basis (365,000 in…
Existing U.S. Home Sales Pace Up 6.8 Percent In March
The pace of existing U.S. home sales “climbed 6.8 percent to a 5.35 million annual rate” in March, the first increase in four months (think and thank both seasonality and…
Actual San Francisco Foreclosures Up 10.9% QOQ (Up 91.1% YOY)
Bay Area Notices of Default (NODs) in the first quarter of 2010 fell 30.5% on a year-over-year basis, down 5.8% in San Francisco proper (from 569 to 536). NOD activity…
San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity In March: Up 50.6% YOY
According to DataQuick, recorded home sales volume in San Francisco was up 50.6% on a year-over-year basis last month (500 recorded sales in March ’10 versus 332 sales in March…
SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory: 4/12/10
Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco rose 3.4% over the past two weeks versus an average of 0.3% for the same two weeks over…
Privately Insured Cures Outpace Defaults For First Time Since 2006
According to Mortgage Insurance Companies of America (MICA), this past February privately insured delinquent homeowner cures (80,758) outpaced new defaults (68,675) in the U.S. for the first time since March…
January Case-Shiller Index: Bottom Tier Up, Middle And Top Tiers Fall
According to the January 2010 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA fell 0.6% from December ’09 to January ’10, up 9.0% year-over-year for the…
Big Money Returns To Broadway (With Roots Beyond Real Estate)
As a plugged-in reader notes, the sale of 2342 Broadway closed escrow this past Friday with a reported contract price of $13,500,000 (asking $14,000,000). The sale of the fully remodeled…
SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory: 3/29/10
Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco rose 6% over the past two weeks versus an average of 4% for the same two weeks over…
San Francisco County Unemployment To 9.9 Percent In February
Preliminary February labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties puts the unemployment rate at 9.9%, 8.4% and 9.4% respectively, down 0.4 percentage points in San…