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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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If Nothing Else It Should Continue To Distort Those Foreclosure Stats

February 13, 2009

“Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley agreed to suspend foreclosures until next month and signaled a readiness to help the Obama administration craft a housing plan to…

Design & Architecture Listings (for sale)

Decorator Showcase Miss 2000 Officially Hits The Market On Broadway

February 13, 2009

Another past Decorator Showcase home has officially hit the market. This time it’s Miss 2000 at 2601 Broadway sporting seven bedrooms, six and one-half baths, and almost 10,000 square feet…

Neighborhoods

JustQuotes: New SFPD Headquarters Targeting Mission Bay?

February 13, 2009

“A new San Francisco Justice Facilities Improvement Study by architects Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum and Mark Cavagnero Associates identifies 1.5 acres of city-owned land on the southwest corner of Third…

New Developments RealRecentReductions SocketSite Readers Report

A Plugged-In Reader’s Perspective On The Montgomery And Its Cuts

February 13, 2009

A plugged-in reader’s perspective on The Montgomery (74 New Montgomery) and its cuts: I bought a 1-bedroom pre-opening in 2007…for over 100K more than the new pricing (although we did…

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$15,000 Homebuyer Tax Credit Cut, Conforming Loan Limits Restored

February 12, 2009

“A proposal to provide a $15,000 tax credit to homebuyers was stripped from a $789 billion economic stimulus package that appears headed for a vote Friday, but a restoration of…

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BLU Cuts Pre-Sale Required Green To $575,000 (And Up To 26%)

February 12, 2009

According to the sales office over at BLŪ, the “starting price” cuts of 17 to 22% as reported by SF New Developments are in direct response to a fast approaching…

Trends

Early January Listed Sales Results For San Francisco: Down 34%

February 12, 2009

Based on an early count of 142 sales of listed single-family homes, condos and TICs in January, sales volume in San Francisco has dropped 34% on a year-over-year basis (versus…

Listings (for sale) RealRecentReductions Trends

4552 19th Street Joins The High-End Half Million Dollar Cut Club

February 12, 2009

With a $300,000 cut late yesterday, the recently renovated 4552 19th Street in District 5 joins the high-end million dollar (and over 30%) price cut club. Now asking $2,999,000 or…

Real Estate Economics

Fannie Seeks To Stoke Demand By Increasing Limits For Investors

February 11, 2009

From Bloomberg: Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance company under U.S. government control, will no longer bar real- estate investors from qualifying for its loans if they already own four properties as…

Listings (for sale)

Bank Owned For The Past Year But Now On The Market: 279 Flournoy

February 11, 2009

279 Flournoy was purchased for $440,000 in October of 2003, bought back by the bank in January of 2008 for $486,023, and has now hit the market for $349,900. Perhaps…

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Recent Reader Activity
  1. Aaron Goodman on Parkmerced: From The Plans To Develop, To The Plans To Preserve

    Gabriel Metcalf should apologize, 6 national organizations signed a memo against the destruction of Parkmerced, and to date they have…

  2. Notcom on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval

    And don't forget the simultaneous implosion of the The California College of the Arts (CCA)...guess that move to SF wasn't…

  3. The Milkshake of Despair on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval

    The Academy of Art is a reminder of what the city has lost with the San Francisco Art Institute. The…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval

    Here we are, more than six years later, and in a story datelined May 11, 2026 (Academy of Art sells…

  5. Notcom on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)

    Noted. But of course I'm more interested in (what passes for) journalism over at the 'Standard'": consider this remarkable -…

  6. Brahma (incensed renter) on Coveted LEED Condo Listed Below its 2015 Price

    Wound up closing at asking 39 days after the above post. Then something happened which appeared on the MLS like…

  7. Brahma (incensed renter) on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)

    And 12 years and 8 months later, brought to market asking $35 million only to be removed 122 days after…

  8. Notcom on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    I would diagnose this type of disconnect: Ass Burgher's Syndrome

  9. Brahma (incensed renter) on New Tower Tops Out, on Track for Delivery This Year

    Yes. You correctly understood the schtick. Business people can make up all kinds of rationalizations for their pecuniary interests that…

  10. Daniel on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

    The Chron has some numbers to put to this: They just published a rundown of office occupancy by largest tenants.…

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