Having hit a pandemic-era high of 23 percent in the third quarter of last year, the effective office vacancy rate in San Francisco has since ticked up another 110 basis points to just over 24 percent, representing nearly 21 million square feet of vacant office space in buildings spread... Read More »

The net number of condos and single-family homes listed for sale in San Francisco ticked up 10 percent over the past week and is currently running 20 percent higher than at the same time last year and 60 percent higher than average over the past decade. At the same... Read More »

When some surreptitiously installed scaffolding and shrink wrap was removed from over the third floor deck which faces the street at 60 Rico Way in the Marina, at least one neighbor noticed a difference in the building’s façade and profile. When contacted by the City, which appears to have... Read More »

Purchased for $1.399 million in August of 2017, which was $91,000 under its list price at the time, the “luxurious, high-style corner unit” #405 at 1450 Franklin Street, a 1,325-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bath unit with two private decks, storage and parking in the building’s garage, returned to the market priced... Read More »

As we outlined back in the fourth quarter of 2021: Having been in and out of contract a handful of times over the past couple of years, a sale of the former used car lot turned Firepie site on the northeast corner of Valencia and Cesar Chavez, which is... Read More »

The seasonally adjusted volume of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for a home in the U.S. ticked down another (1) percent over the past week. As such, purchase mortgage activity was 44 percent lower than at the same time last year and at a 9-year low, according... Read More »

Plans to raze the two-story, 15,000-square-foot office building at 1460-1462 Pine Street are in the works. And as proposed, a 9-story building designed by RG-Architecture would rise up to 85 feet in height on the Polk Gulch site. As proposed, the 1462 Pine Street project would yield 104 residential... Read More »

Despite the fact that inventory levels are significantly higher and asking prices have dropped, the number of homes in contract to be sold across San Francisco is down over 30 percent on a year-over-year basis. And in fact, pending sales in San Francisco are poised to drop to their... Read More »

Having dropped to its lowest level in five years last week, the average price per square foot of the homes which are in contract in San Francisco, which is a leading indicator, has since ticked down another two (2) percent to under $840 per square foot, which is 17... Read More »

While mortgage application volume dropped to a quarter century low at the end of 2022, despite a pullback in mortgage rates in the fourth quarter of last year, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage has since inched up another 6 basis points (0.06 percentage points) to 6.48... Read More »