Having increased by a (downwardly revised) 8,100 in February, the net number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck increased by 6,800 in March to 557,600, representing 52,600 more employed residents in the city than there were in March of last year and 78,900 more than in... Read More »

Having slipped around 2 percent in February, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco ticked back up around 2 percent in March to $3,400 month, which was 11 percent higher than at the same time last year. That being said, the average asking rent in... Read More »

Having been downwardly revised, the net number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck actually slipped by a thousand in January but then rebounded by 8,500 in February to 551,200, representing 48,400 more employed residents in the city than there were in February of last year and... Read More »

While the number of new unemployment claims filed across the Bay Area inched up in January to 36,803, which was still 24 percent higher than in January of 2020, prior to the pandemic having hit the local economy, the number of new claims filed in February dropped to 26,414,... Read More »

Having increased by an upwardly revised 3,400 in December, the net number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck ticked up by 1,100 in January to (a downwardly revised) 544,800.  But with an upwardly revised 564,200 people in the labor force, the local unemployment rate inched up... Read More »

Having ticked up in January, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco slipped around 2 percent in February to $3,340 month, which is roughly 6 percent higher than at the same time last year but still 19 percent ($760) lower than prior to the pandemic... Read More »

Having dropped back under 20 percent in January, driven by the Omicron surge, the weekly attendance rate for office workers in San Francisco, which was nearing 30 percent in mid-December, has since ticked back up to around 25 percent, according to the City’s latest Re-Opening report. At the same... Read More »

While muddled by a typical holiday slowdown at the end of the year, the impact of the Omicron variant on return to office plans (as measured by office attendance, which dropped back under 20 percent) and tourism in San Francisco (as measured by hotel occupancy, which dropped back under... Read More »

Having ended last year 8 percent higher than the year before, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has since ticked up 2.6 percent to $3,400, which is 10 percent higher than at the same time last year but still 17 percent ($700) lower than... Read More »

Having increased by 6,300 in November, the net number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck ticked up by 2,600 in December to 549,400, dropping the local unemployment rate to 3.0 percent with 42,700 more employed residents in the city than there were at the end of... Read More »