Actual San Francisco Foreclosures Down 2.8% QOQ (Up 55.4% YOY)
Bay Area Notices of Default (NODs) in the fourth quarter of 2009 rose 21.8% on a year-over-year basis, up 54% in San Francisco proper (from 302 to 465). NOD activity…
Will Our Sprinter Get A Second Wind?
Our headline for November’s existing U.S. home sales gain of 7.4 percent: A Sprinter’s Or Marathoner’s Pace? In December the pace of U.S. existing home sales fell 17 percent. According…
November Case-Shiller Index: Up For Bottom Tiers But Flat At The Top
According to the November 2009 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA gained 0.6% from October ’09 to November ’09, up 1.0% year-over-year and the…
San Francisco County Unemployment At 9.4 Percent In December
Preliminary December labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties puts the unemployment rate at 9.4%, 7.8% and 8.6% respectively, down 0.3 percentage points in San…
San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity In December: Up 36.3% YOY
According to DataQuick, recorded home sales volume in San Francisco was up 36.3% on a year-over-year basis last month (499 recorded sales in December ’09 versus 366 sales in December…
Renting The Whole Remodeled Noe Home For Under Six (Asking)
Purchased for $1,230,000 in December 2003, the remodeled Noe Valley home at 350 Valley returned to the market in September 2009 but was withdrawn in December after a price cut…
Asking $1,425,000. Owed $1,133,837. Sold For $528,500 (Cash).
Purchased for $820,000 in March 2002, the then three-unit building at 442 Holloway Avenue was refinanced in 2006 with a loan in the amount of $945,000. In February 2008 a…
The Union Street Blues
As the August montage was of 29 empty or available storefronts on Union, according to the Chronicle 35 businesses “went under from the start of 2008 through the second quarter…
Leading Indicator (Pending U.S. Home Sales) Takes A Hit In November
The 16 percent fall from October to November was much greater than expected for pending U.S. home sales, but a decline in general wasn’t (think seasonality), sales volume only dropped…
Reporting From the Courthouse Steps: Shares Sell, Others Postponed
A plugged-in tipster reports that of roughly 50 houses and condos scheduled to hit the courthouse steps this afternoon in San Francisco, auctions for the vast majority (40-ish) were postponed…