JustQuotes: The Bigger Picture Is Looking A Bit Bleak
“Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer Daniel Mudd said the housing slump will last beyond next year, dragging down home prices and increasing credit losses at the largest provider of financing…
Which Five Years Will The Next Five Years More Likely Resemble?
213 Moulton is a contemporary single-family home situated down a little alley in Cow Hollow. It first sold for $545,000 in 1995. And ten years later (in 2005) it changed…
July S&P/Case-Shiller Index: San Francisco MSA Continues Decline
And speaking of the S&P/Case-Shiller index (and no, that wasn’t a coincidence), according to the July 2007 index (pdf), single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA slipped 4.1% year-over-year…
They’re Betting Against Us (San Francisco) On The CME
It was a little over a year ago (May 2006) that housing futures based on the S&P/Case-Shiller index for ten Major Metropolitan Areas (as well as a ten city composite)…
841 Webster Returns: And Perhaps It’s Now “Priced to Rent!”
As a tipster notes, 841 Webster (which failed to sell at $989,000 despite four months on the market, a total of $310,000 in reductions, and advertising “Priced to Sell!”) has…
Bay Area Up But San Francisco Down (And That’s A Good Thing)
According to the Chronicle (and RealtyTrac), while “Bay Area foreclosure activity skyrockets” in August, notices of default and trustee sales actually decreased on a year over year basis in San…
SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Inventory Update: 9/17/07
The post Labor Day bump in Active single family, condo, and TIC listings in San Francisco has materialized as expected (up 24% over the past two weeks). And while listed…
San Francisco Sales Activity: Reported Sales Volume Takes A Little Hit
According to DataQuick, the sales volume (i.e., demand) for existing homes in San Francisco was down 13.8% year-over-year (577 sales in August ’07 versus a revised 669 sales in August…
A Few More Forecasts (And Data Points) For Your Consideration
Rounding out a few of the recent real estate forecasts, Mark Zandi, co- founder of Moody’s Economy.com in New York “forecasts a decline of 3 percent in the last quarter…
JustQuotes: NAR’s Monthly Moving Target (September Edition)
“The organization today cut its forecast for the ninth time this year and said existing home sales will fall 8.6 percent in 2007. That’s more than the 6.8 percent drop…