Delta Variant Stalls the Recovery in San Francisco
To quote a new report from San Francisco’s Office of the Controller and Economic Analysis, “the emergence of the Delta variant has stalled aspects of the city’s economic recovery,” with…
Mortgage Rates Holding Near Record Lows
The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage, which inched up 10 basis points (0.10 percentage points) two weeks ago, has effectively held at 2.87 percent, which is 4 basis…
Problems for Skinny 13-Story Polk Gulch Building as Proposed
As we revealed back in June, plans for a skinny 13-story building to rise up to 130 feet in height on the northwest corner of Polk and Olive, across from…
Home Buying Activity in San Francisco Continues to Slow
Having peaked in April, the number of single-family homes and condos in contract to be sold across San Francisco has since dropped 25 percent, albeit with typical seasonality in play.…
Renovated Beaux-Arts Beauty Hasn’t Moved Despite Big Cuts
Purchased for $9.75 million in August of 2016, the interior of the fully renovated Nob Hill home at 1230 Sacramento Street has since been made over by Jonathan Adler, blending…
New Home Inventory Up 26 Percent in the U.S., Sales Down
While the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ticked up 1.0 percent in July to an annualized rate of 708,000 sales, the current pace of…
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West Oakland Déjà Vu
Designed by Baran Studio Architecture and listed for “$849,000” in June of 2016, despite its nearly identical sister home with a yellow door having sold for $1.025 million the month…
Over 400K Bay Area Jobs Have Been Recovered, 248K Left to Go
Having increased by a downwardly revised 3,500 in June, the number of people living in San Francisco with a paycheck jumped by 12,200 in July to 532,400, representing the most…
Pace of Existing-Home Sales Ticks Up, Median Price Slips
The seasonally adjusted pace of existing-home sales across the U.S. ticked up 2.0 percent last month to an annual rate of 5.99 million sales, which was 1.5 percent higher than…
Infamous Mansion Could Sell for Less Than $5 Million, But…
As we outlined back in June: While slated to be foreclosed upon, again, in July, the courthouse auction for the infamous seven-bedroom home at 224 Sea Cliff Avenue was canceled…