San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity In August: Down 8.3% YOY
According to DataQuick, home sales volume in San Francisco fell 8.3% on a year-over-year basis last month (529 recorded sales in August ’08 versus 577 sales in August ‘07) and…
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According to DataQuick, home sales volume in San Francisco fell 8.3% on a year-over-year basis last month (529 recorded sales in August ’08 versus 577 sales in August ‘07) and…
“upermarket sites are some of the last large real estate lots in the city. Eager developers are making such generous offers that store owners would be crazy to turn them…
“Last week, applications by homeowners looking to refinance their mortgages spiked 88 percent, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Refinances accounted for nearly 52 percent of all application activity, up…
“The overnight Libor rate in U.S. dollars soared 3.33 percentage points to 6.44 percent today, its biggest jump in at least seven years….The one-week rate rose by more than a…
As expected, inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco jumped over the past two weeks (15.5% versus an average of 25.8% for the same two…
As we wrote last year, “Forget Subprime In San Francisco, But How About Alt-A?” And from Bloomberg today: About 3 million U.S. borrowers have Alt-A mortgages totaling $1 trillion, compared…
The National Association of Realtors’ index for pending U.S. home resales fell 3.2% in July (10.6% in the West). The pending resales report is considered a leading indicator because it…
According to the latest report from the Mortgage Bankers Association, the pace of new U.S. home foreclosures “increased to 1.19 percent, rising above 1 percent for the first time in…
“San Francisco’s job market is weakening, being buoyed by ongoing strength in the tourism industry, according to The City’s monthly economic barometer.” “The monthly economic report also states that The…
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