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 »

While home sales typically tick up in October, the number of Bay Area single-family homes and condos that traded hands (7,500) dropped 5.4 percent from September to October and was 1.5 percent lower versus the same time last year. And in San Francisco, the drops were more dramatic, with... Read More »

The number of single-family home and condos that traded hands in the Bay Area slipped 3.3 percent from a revised 8,245 in August to 7,974 in September. But the slide was a third of the typical seasonal decline and the sales volume was 1.4 percent higher than at the... Read More »

The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the Bay Area ticked up 6 percent from July (7,901) to August (8,374) and was 3.2 percent higher versus the same time last year (8,113), ending a five month run of year-over-year declines. And in San Francisco, the... Read More »

The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the Bay Area dropped an above average 10.5 percent from June to July and the recorded sales volume (7,900) was 13.5 percent lower than at the same time last year, the fifth straight month with increasing year-over-year declines,... Read More »

While the number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the Bay Area ticked 8 percent from May to June, which is typical for this time of the year, the recorded sales volume (8,679) was 6.5 percent lower than at the same time last year and represented... Read More »