With two days left in 2016, the preliminary plans for 79 major developments have been submitted to San Francisco’s Planning Department since the beginning of the year. And as we forecast last month, that’s the fewest since 54 in 2012 and down from a peak of 116 in 2014.... Read More »

As we first reported earlier today, there are now a total of 63,700 apartments and condos in San Francisco’s Housing pipeline, including 6,400 which are currently under construction across the city. But while San Francisco’s overall pipeline is at a record high, the number of new proposals for projects... Read More »

With new proposals for slightly more units of housing than finished construction in the third quarter of 2016, the overall pipeline of apartments and condos under development in San Francisco has inched up by 400 to a record 63,700. While that’s 4,700 more units in the pipeline than at... Read More »

The preliminary plans for over 450 major developments have been submitted to San Francisco’s Planning Department over the past six years. The peak year was 2014, during which 116 major projects were proposed, up from a mere 34 in 2011. And if the trend over the first eleven months... Read More »

With new proposals for slightly fewer units of housing than finished construction last quarter, the overall pipeline of apartments and condos under development in San Francisco slipped by a hundred to 63,300. In addition to 7,000 new units of housing that are currently under construction and should be ready... Read More »

Having inched up by $4 a month in the first quarter of 2016, the average asking rent for an apartment in a building with over 50 units in San Francisco slipped by $25 a month (0.7 percent) to $3,595 in the second quarter of the year, while the asking... Read More »

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 under construction in San Francisco, including at least a thousand new apartments which will be ready for occupancy within... Read More »

Entitled the “Build More Housing Initiative,” the paperwork for a proposed ballot measure which would establish a new “Housing and Inequality Task Force” was filed with San Francisco’s Department of Elections this morning. As drafted, the Mayoral task force would be required to create and publish “a comprehensive plan... Read More »

Having ticked up 3 percent in April, the Mark Company’s Pricing Index for new construction condominiums in San Francisco is now running 2 percent higher versus the same time last year, up from flat in March but down from 20 percent higher eight months ago. In terms of inventory,... Read More »

Following a nominal slip at the end of last year, the average asking rent for an apartment in a building with over 50 units in San Francisco inched up $4 a month (0.1 percent) to $3,620 in the first quarter of 2016 and $16 a month (0.7 percent) to... Read More »