Having dropped a downwardly revised 3.7 percent in April, the pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. shed another 7.8 percent in May to a seasonally adjusted rate of 626,000 sales, which is 3.7 percent below the pace of sales at the same time last year. At... Read More »

While effectively unchanged over the past week, as expected, the number of homes on the market in San Francisco (710) is now running roughly even with the same time last year. At the same time, pending sales activity in the city remains down and has been running an average... Read More »

Having slipped 0.4 percent in April, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. ticked up 2.5 percent in May to an annual rate of 5.34 million transactions but remains 1.1 percent below its mark at the same time last year, according to the National Association of... Read More »

While 17 percent higher than at the beginning of the month, the number of homes on the market in San Francisco is now holding at around 700, which is 37 percent higher than in June of 2015 but 3 percent lower than at the same time last year, with the... Read More »

Down 6.9 percent on a year-over-year basis through the first four months of the year, marking the slowest start to the local market since 2010, home sales in San Francisco ticked up in April. But the pace of sales had already started to slow by early May. And pending... Read More »

The inventory of homes actively listed for sale in San Francisco has jumped 18 percent over the past two weeks to 710, driven by a slowdown in sales along with a typical post-Memorial Day uptick in new listing activity. As such, inventory levels are now running 2 percent higher... Read More »

Having ticked up 3.8 percent in March, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, dropped 1.5 percent last month to 104.3 and is now running 2.0 percent lower on a year-over-year basis and 7.1 percent below a cyclical... Read More »

Having gained an upwardly revised 8.1 percent in March, the pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. dropped 6.9 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted rate of 673,000 sales but remains 7.0 percent above the pace of sales at the same time last year. With a... Read More »

Having dropped 4.9 percent in March, the seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. slipped another 0.4 percent in April to an annual rate of 5.19 million transactions, which is 4.4 percent below the pace as measured at the same time last year, according to the National... Read More »

While home sales in San Francisco totaled a ten-year low in the first quarter of 2019, the pace of sales turned up at the end of March and April sales will show a year-over-year increase, trends which shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise. That being said, the pace... Read More »