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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
Bubble (Or Not) Trends

U.S. Homebuilder Confidence: At Least It Can’t Go Too Much Lower…

November 19, 2008

The bad news: Confidence among U.S. homebuilders in November dropped to the lowest level since record-keeping began in 1985, a sign that the deepening credit crisis is preventing prospective buyers…

Listings (for sale) New Developments RealRecentReductions

The Noe Valley Summit Gets Closer Still (And Listings Anew For Two)

November 18, 2008

Listed five months ago and priced at $1,949,000, and then reduced to $1,649,000 three months after that, 4121 Cesar Chavez #6 was listed anew yesterday for $1,599,000. That’s an “official”…

Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Seemingly Random

We’ll Connect The Comments, You Connect The Dots (And History)

November 18, 2008

From a comment this afternoon: I remember Palo Alto holding up well (in nominal terms) and I trust the best parts of SF did too. But from a plugged-in reader…

Neighborhoods

Transbay Block 8: The Request For Proposals And Basic Design(s)

November 18, 2008

The Request For Proposals to develop Transbay Block 8 (bounded by First, Folsom, Freemont and Clementina) is out and about and due back January 22, 2009. Once again, a one-acre…

Just Quotes (Emphasis Added) Real Estate Economics Trends

Once Again, It’s Just Getting Starting (And It’s Going To Last Longer)

November 18, 2008

“From a Bay Area view, the global slowdown threatens tech exports and tourism, which have so far cushioned San Francisco and the Silicon Valley from the housing bust that has…

Listings (for sale) New Developments RealRecentReductions

The Latest Listing Verbiage From Chelsea Park: “Prices Slashed”

November 18, 2008

The latest listing verbiage from the sales office at Chelsea Park: “Prices slashed for stunning homes in the heart of the Castro/Mission Dolores neighborhoods! $500/day bonus for quick escrows, free…

Just Quotes (Emphasis Added) Neighborhoods

Inside Air Quality: Demanding Developers Take The Responsibility

November 18, 2008

“A proposal would force developers of multiunit buildings along city streets with the heaviest clouds of pollution to make sure the air inside those facilities is clean, under legislation scheduled…

Apples To Apples Seemingly Random Trends

Which Five Years Will The Next Five Most Likely Resemble Redux

November 17, 2008

As we wrote a little over a year ago: 213 Moulton is a contemporary single-family home situated down a little alley in Cow Hollow. It first sold for $545,000 in…

Listings (for sale) New Developments Seemingly Random

A Quick Friends And Family Esprit Park Flip?

November 17, 2008

While Homes on Esprit Park just recently received their first certificate of occupancy and started closing round one, the first resale has hit the MLS: Investor owned! Only one at…

Trends

SocketSite’s San Francisco Listed Housing Update: 11/17/08

November 17, 2008

Inventory of Active listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco remained flat over the past two weeks but is running 28.4% higher on a year-over-year basis with sales…

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  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

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

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

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