The weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has ticked up 1.6 percent since the end of August to $3,425 per month. As such, while asking rents in San Francisco are now up a little over 12 percent, on average, since hitting a pandemic-era low in... Read More »

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage jumped 13 basis points (0.13 percentage points) over the past week to 3.01 percent. While 3.02 percent is still historically low, with the 30-year rate having averaged 5.84 percent over the past 30 years, that’s 13 basis points above the average... Read More »

Having ticked down 1.8 percent in July, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, a seasonally adjusted index for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, recovered 8.1 percent in August for a reading of 119.5. That being said, the index is still down 8.3 percent... Read More »

Overall mortgage loan application volumes to either purchase or refinance a home in the U.S. ticked down 1.1 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis over the past week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. And with a two (2) percent drop in purchase mortgage application volume in the absolute,... Read More »

Featuring picture-postcard views, spanning from the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz and far beyond, the renovated unit #3C at 1080 Chestnut Street, which is a classic cooperative building “on one of Russian Hill’s most desirable flat blocks,” with a 24/7 doorman and live-in property manager, was purchased for $3.45... Read More »

Having gained 2.7 percent in June, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay and Peninsula – ticked up 1.2 percent in July and effectively held at a year-over-year gain of 22 percent, which... Read More »

The net number of homes for sale in San Francisco inched up another two (2) percent over the past week to a little over 1,200, representing the most active inventory on the market since the fourth quarter of last year, 20 percent more inventory than there was at this... Read More »

While the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ticked up 1.5 percent in August to an annualized rate of 740,000 sales, the current pace of sales is over 24 percent lower than at the same time last year, down 25 percent since the start... Read More »

Having cited an ongoing public health crisis (i.e., the pandemic) that “will continue to weigh on economic activity, employment, and inflation in the near term, and poses considerable risks to the economic outlook” at the end of last year, the dot plot of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) participant’s... Read More »

Having ticked up in July, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. dropped 2.0 percent in August to an annual rate of 5.88 million sales and was down 1.5 percent on a year-over-year basis, representing the first year-over-year decline in the pace of sales since July... Read More »