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Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops Asking Rents in San Francisco Are Ticking Up, But… Benchmark Mortgage Rate Poised to Inch Down Asking Rents in Oakland Tick Up, Down Year-Over-Year Index Versus Reality for Another “Over Asking!” Sale
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The City’s Assessment of DBI’s Integrity and Required Reforms

September 17, 2021

Having completed a “Public Integrity Review” of the Department of Building Inspection’s (DBI’s) permitting and inspection processes, driven by a need to root out departmental fraud and a history of…

Breaking News East Bay Marin (And Points North) Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Trends

Bay Area Employment Slipped Last Month

September 17, 2021

Having jumped by (a downwardly revised) 11,600 in July, the number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck (529,600) slipped by 2,200 in August. But with 3,700 people…

As Proposed Bay Buildings Commercial Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Block-Sized “Live-Work-Play” Campus on the Boards

September 17, 2021

In addition to plans for a 75-story residential tower to rise on the current parking garage site at 50 Main, Hines is planning to redevelop and rebrand the adjacent Pacific…

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Plans for a New 800-Foot-Tall Residential Tower Revealed

September 16, 2021

Plans to demolish the two-story, 153-space parking garage at 50 Main Street, between Market and Mission, are in the works. And as envisioned and newly massed below, a 75-story tower…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Inches Down

September 16, 2021

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched down 2 basis point (0.02 percentage points) over the past week to 2.86 percent, which is effectively even with the prevailing…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Chinatown Infill Project Supersized, Closer to Reality

September 15, 2021

While plans for a six-story building to rise up to 65 feet in height upon the Happy Chinese Restaurant site at 1324-1326 Powell Street were in the works, said plans…

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Purchase Mortgage Activity in the U.S. Only Down 12 Percent

September 15, 2021

Mortgage loan application volumes to either purchase or refinance a home in the U.S. dropped 10 percent in the absolute over the past week but inched up 0.3 percent on…

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Apples-To-Apples for a High-End Pacific Heights Condo

September 14, 2021

Purchased for $2.8 million, or roughly $2,113 per square foot, in May of 2017, the two-bedroom, two-bath unit #503 in The Pacific at 2121 Webster Street returned to the market…

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Hayes Valley Infill Building Has Been Officially Approved

September 13, 2021

As we revealed back in July, the refined plans for a seven-story building to rise up to 85 feet in height upon the Bruce’s Automotive building site at 159 Fell…

Breaking News Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Real Estate Economics Trends

Number of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Jumps

September 13, 2021

With around 400 homes listed for sale in San Francisco over the past week, which is the most new listings in a week in over 15 years, the net number…

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  1. Fact on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

    What's the status update on socket site? AI chatbots still on strike?

  2. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern Noe Valley Compound Now Listed for 33 Percent Less

    152 days after after the revised listing mentioned in the penultimate paragraph above, 1647 Sanchez's listing was removed from the…

  3. Brahma (incensed renter) on “Full(er) House” Home Back on the Market

    Sold for 7.7 percent under asking. From India Roby at Architectural Digest, yesterday, in a story headlined The Full House…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Apparently, developers believe that S.F. doesn't have enough office space. But the vacancy rate is rising. According to an article…

  5. Brahma (incensed renter) on Construction of Prominent Hub District Tower Has Commenced

    Might have been underway when the above was posted, but we weren't kept plugged-in. Lendlease’s tower to rise at 30…

  6. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern New Development Fails to Sell, Taken Back by The Bank

    Grubber2 pretty much nailed it. Sold by Avidbank to HSH Holdings for $14 million, or about 13.6 percent under the…

  7. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    My bad. Even realtor dot com is now showing that correct amount in its listing. I should have not taken…

  8. steve on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    I think someone mistyped the HOA fees. Redfin is now showing that as $1,764/mo. It doesn't change your main point,…

  9. Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

    It's not all bad at The Millennium Tower, and we can take a look at the unit namelinked above by…

  10. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    Not only has the building — now dubbed Crescent Nob Hill — been completed since the above post, but certain…

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