Rent Versus Buy and Returns for the Cheapest Lumina Condo
Purchased for $800,000 back in September of 2017, the 763-square-foot unit #3D in the Lumina tower at 201 Folsom Street returned to the market priced at $820,000 this past May,…
Pac Heights Infill on the Boards
Plans to raze the former Hollywood Video turned Pet Food Express building at 3150 California Street, and the adjoining office complex on the back of the roughly 20,000-square-foot lot, are…
Three Points for a Coveted Two-Bedroom With Views
Having hit the market priced at $1.95 million in March, a price which was subsequently reduced to $1.835 million in May, the sale of the “coveted” south-east corner unit #1902…
Reductions Poised To Rise in San Francisco
With the number of homes on the market in San Francisco, net of new sales and contract activity, having effectively plateaued over the past couple of weeks but poised to…
The Past, Present and Future for This Historical HQ
Designed by Andrew H. Knoll and built in 1922, the two-story, Renaissance Revival-styled building at 678 Mission Street, on the northwest corner of Mission and Annie, was initially leased to…
Local Unemployment Claims Tick Up
While the unemployment rate in San Francisco declined in July, the number of San Francisco residents that filed a new/initial unemployment claim last month actually ticked up 5.3 percent to…
A Two-Bedroom in One of the Hottest Neighborhoods Returns
Purchased for a million dollars, or roughly $698 per square foot, back in April 2015, the “beautiful new construction residence” unit #6 at 4132 3rd Street, “in one of the…
Moratorium on Pandemic Related Evictions Extended Again
As we outlined in June: The temporary moratorium on the eviction of tenants in San Francisco for the non-payment of rent from April through July, if formally documented as being…
Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Ticked up in July
Having rebounded 44 percent in May and then jumped another 16.6 percent in June, following two months of twenty-plus percent declines, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index,…
Mortgage Rates Drop Along with Application Volumes
Having ticked up last week, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has since dropped 8 basis points (0.08 percentage points) to 2.91 percent, which is 67 basis points…