While the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands in San Francisco proper only dropped 0.8 percent from 485 in July to 481 in August, the sales volume was down 14.0 percent versus the same time last year and the month-over-month decline was muted by a downward... Read More »

While Bay Area home sales typically drop around 6 percent from June to July with normal seasonality in play, the sale volume dropped over 17 percent in 2017, from 9,114 sales in June to 7,534 in July which is down 2.6 percent versus the same time last year and... Read More »

The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands in San Francisco inched up 0.7 percent from 566 in May to 570 in June versus a typical seasonal gain of closer to 3 percent. And on a year-over-year basis, sales actually slipped a percent versus an 11.0 percent... Read More »

Having dropped a downwardly revised 13.0 percent in April, the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands in San Francisco rebounded 17.2 percent to 560 in May, which is 9.8 percent higher versus the same time last year as compared to 18.0 percent lower on a year-over-year... Read More »

At a time of the year when sales typical rise around 5 percent, the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands in San Francisco last month dropped 7 percent, from an upwardly revised 514 in March to 478 April, which is 12.3 percent lower versus the same... Read More »

While the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands in San Francisco last month jumped 44.5 percent from an upwardly revised 346 in February to 500 in March with typical seasonality in play, the volume was 5.3 percent lower on a year-over-year basis versus a 7.9 percent... Read More »

The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands in San Francisco dropped to a five-year low of 308 in February. That’s down 4 percent from a downwardly revised 322 sales in January (versus a typical 12 percent seasonal bump). And on a year-over-year basis, home sales in... Read More »

Seeking to rationalize the recent drops in recorded home sales in San Francisco, a lack of inventory, seasonality and changes in the mortgage market which shifted sales at the end of 2015 have all been invoked to explain it away with the wave of a hand. So let’s take... Read More »

While the estimated number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the Bay Area last month (4,849) dropped 31.4 percent from the month before with typical seasonality in play, the overall sales volume was 0.2 percent higher than the same time last year (January 2016). But in addition... Read More »

The estimated number of Bay Area single-family homes and condos that traded hands this past December (7,136) was 9.1 percent lower than in December 2015, having dropped 4.4 percent from the month before at a time of the year when sales typically rise. And in San Francisco, the year-over-year... Read More »