While the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has continued to inch down, despite some recent misreports to the contrary, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in Oakland has inched up around 2 percent over the past month to a four-month high of... Read More »

As we first outlined last week, while the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has been holding at around $3,100 a month, listing activity (i.e., availability) has inched up. And on a year-over-year basis, which takes into account seasonality, asking rents have actually continued to... Read More »

While the average asking rent for an apartment in Oakland hasn’t declined as much as it has in San Francisco, either in the absolute or relatively, it has ticked down another 1.4 percent over the past two months to $2,300, which is down 19 percent on a year-over-year basis... Read More »

Despite the fact that the average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has dropped 24 percent since the end of February and the average asking rent for a one-bedroom is back under $2,700 a month for the first time since 2012, listing activity for available units continues... Read More »

While asking rents for an apartment in San Francisco have been on the decline since the start of the year, a decline which was amplified by the pandemic and really accelerated in May, rents in Oakland mostly held firm through June, at which point the weighted average asking rent... Read More »

Having slipped under $3,600 in August, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has just dropped to under $3,400 a month, which is down nearly 6 percent over the past month alone (having dropped closer to 3 percent a month over the prior quarter), down... Read More »

Having slipped last month, which shouldn’t have caught any plugged-in readers by surprise, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in Oakland has since dropped nearly 5 percent to a little under $2,500 a month, which is now down over 13 percent since the end of last year... Read More »

With signs of weakness having started to emerge last month, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in Oakland has slipped back under $2,600 a month and is now down around 10 percent since the end of last year, and 13 percent below a 2016-era peak of roughly... Read More »

While rents in Oakland held relatively firm over the past quarter, particularly in relation to the market in San Francisco, signs of weakness are starting to emerge. In addition to an uptick in listing activity over the past couple of weeks, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment... Read More »

Having already started to slip earlier this year, prior to the COVID-19 hit, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has dropped around 4 percent since the end of February to $3,950 a month, which is down over 7 percent on a year-over-year basis and... Read More »