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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 Fed Affirms, Mortgage Rates Tick Up

March 21, 2024

As we first calculated a couple weeks ago, “the expected value of the Fed’s rate cuts this year has effectively held firm forecasting a total of three (3) quarter-point rate…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods Trends

Another Luxury Unit Available for Over a Million Less

March 20, 2024

Listed for $2.175 million last month and still on the market, an “at asking” sale for the 1,262-square-foot, two-bedroom unit #61C atop the “poor door” free tower at 181 Fremont…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions Trends

Yerba Buena 911

March 20, 2024

Purchased for $1,098,000 in May of 2017, the 838-square-foot Yerba Buena Loft unit #911 at 855 Folsom Street, a modern industrial loft condo in a Stanley Saitowitz designed building, with…

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New Home Sales Activity Ticks Up But Pace Slips, Loan Size Too

March 19, 2024

Up 19 percent on a year-over-year basis in January, mortgage application volume for new home purchases in the U.S. only ticked up a (1) percent from January to February. And…

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Two-Bedroom Condo Just Re-listed for 44 Percent Less

March 19, 2024

As we outlined in November of last year, the two-bedroom, two-bath, two-parking space unit #513 in the boutique Mid-Market building at 1075 Market Street (a.k.a. Stage 1075) had just been…

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

Number of Homes on the Market in S.F. Hits a 13-Year High

March 18, 2024

Well, our model was off by a week. But with the net number of single-family homes and condos on the market having ticked up another 3 percent, there are now…

Apples To Apples Neighborhoods Trends

Apples-to-Apples in The Mission, 2022 to 2024

March 15, 2024

Purchased for $1,237,500 in April of 2022, the 1,158-square-foot, architect-designed, top-floor condo #6 at 2170 Harrison Street, a block from Gus’s Community Market, Tartine Manufactory and Mission Cliffs, and two…

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Index Versus Reality Atop Potrero Hill

March 15, 2024

Purchased for $4.1 million in April of 2018, the 3,960-square-foot, four-bedroom home at 910 Carolina Street, offering “the epitome of modern, comfortable luxury living” atop Potrero Hill, with “superior finishes”…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Drops, Rate Cut Expectations Slip

March 14, 2024

The average rate for a benchmark 30 year mortgage dropped 14 basis points (0.14 percentage points) over the past week to 6.74 percent, which is still 14 basis points higher…

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Sellers at The Harrison are Taking Some Big(ger) Hits

March 13, 2024

Purchased for $1.356 million in March of 2018, the 830-square-foot, one-bedroom unit #26F in The Harrison tower at 401 Harrison Street, a light-filled, corner unit with “unobstructed south-facing water views,…

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    The one-bedroom, one bathroom 719 Larkin #705 sold for $690,000 in November of 2019, conforming to building and neighborhood comps…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. 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 -…

  7. 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…

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

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