Employment in San Francisco Drops Along with its Labor Force
While the unemployment rate in San Francisco dropped to 2.9 percent last month, the lowest unemployment rate since the dot-com boom when it hit 2.4 percent, the drop from 3.1…
Big Developer Lowers Expectations Citing Lower Than Expected Rents
As we wrote when we first reported that asking rents in San Francisco had barely moved in the first quarter of the year, “there are roughly 7,300 units of housing…
Employment in San Francisco Stalls, Slips in the East Bay
While the unemployment rate in San Francisco has dropped to 3.1 percent, the lowest unemployment rate since the end of the dot-com boom, the drop from 3.3 percent in March…
San Francisco and East Bay Employment Slip
While the unemployment rate in San Francisco has now held at 3.3 percent for four months in a row, the number of people living in the city with a job…
San Francisco’s Hub 2.0
Over a century ago, the intersection of Market, Valencia, Haight and Gough in San Francisco was dubbed “The Hub.” At the time, four main streetcar lines converged at the intersection,…
Unemployment Rate Holds at 3.3% in SF, 4.3% in the East Bay
The unemployment rate in San Francisco has held at 3.3 percent for the third month in a row. But based on a revised benchmark and accounting, the number of people…
Employment in San Francisco Slips Again as Alameda Gains
For the third month in a row, the number of people living in San Francisco with a job has slipped, dropping by 1,200 in January to 533,400. But a dip…
Employment in San Francisco Slips Again While East Bay Gains
For the second month in a row, the number of people living in San Francisco with a job slipped. And while it was a nominal drop of a hundred, from…
Square Trading within Pennies of IPO Price, Twitter near All-Time Low
Square is currently trading at $9.16 per share, which is 16 cents (2 percent) above the deeply discounted price at which it went public and $3.91 (30 percent) below the…
San Francisco and East Bay Employment Slip
The number of people living in San Francisco with a job dropped by 1,600 in November to 534,800, the first November without a gain since 2012. But with the labor…