Listed San Francisco Single-Family Home Sales In August: Down 5%
Sales volume for listed single-family homes in San Francisco fell 5% on a year-over-year basis in August (206 transactions in 2008 versus 196 in 2009), down 12% versus July and…
SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory Update: 8/30/09
Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco declined 10.3% over the past four weeks which is not to be unexpected leading up to Labor Day…
Cash For Closings Has Intended New Home Sales Results
Boosted by an expiring $8,000 tax credit for new-home buyers, the pace of U.S. new home sales increased 9.6 percent from June to July. The jump in sales was led…
June S&P/Case-Shiller: San Francisco MSA Up MOM Across All Tiers
According to the June 2009 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index (pdf), single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA gained 3.8% from May ’09 to June ’09, down 22.0% year-over-year and…
San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity In July: Down 10.8% YOY
According to DataQuick, recorded home sales volume in San Francisco fell 10.8% on a year-over-year basis last month (543 recorded sales in July ’09 versus 609 sales in July ‘08)…
San Francisco County Unemployment Up To 9.9 Percent In July
Preliminary July labor force data counts for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties puts the unemployment rate at 9.9%, 8.2% and 9.0% respectively, up 0.1 percentage points for San…
It’s Funny What Happens When People Are Forced To Sell, They Do
While the pace of existing U.S. home sales increased 7.3 percent from June to July (the biggest monthly gain “since records began in 1999”) and 5 percent year-over-year, forced sales…
New Subprime Foreclosures Ease But Prime Foreclosures Exacerbate
From Bloomberg: Americans fell behind on their mortgage payments at a record pace in the second quarter as job losses and falling real estate prices thwarted government efforts to stabilize…
Shacking Up In San Francisco To Save Some Shekels
“Facing layoffs, pay cuts and furloughs, more people have turned to shared housing to help make ends meet. Craigslist, the online classified ad giant, says that its roommate-wanted postings over…
San Francisco Listed Sales Volume In July: Down 13% YOY
While sales volume for listed single-family homes in San Francisco gained 2% on a year-over-year basis in July, condo sales volume fell 28.5% (228 transactions in July 2008 versus 163…