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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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Modernized Victorian Trades Down Over $450K

December 7, 2023

As we outlined last month: Purchased for $2.725 million in June of 2014, the “well located, finely modernized Italianate Victorian spanning three levels of magnificent open design” at 2208 Pine…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Drops as Odds of Rate Cuts Rise

December 7, 2023

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage dropped another 19 basis points (0.19 percentage points) over the past two weeks to 7.03 percent, which is 71 basis point below…

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Banked Ginsberg’s Pub Site Back on the Market

December 6, 2023

Purchased for $1.75 million in early 2013, plans to raze Ginsberg’s Dublin Pub and develop a boutique 13-room hotel on the 400 Bay Street site were soon thereafter proposed, as…

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Trendy Dogpatch Condo Trades Down Over 20 Percent

December 6, 2023

The resale of the modern two-bedroom, two-bath and 1,102-square-foot unit #202 in the “trendy Dogpatch” development at 815 Tennessee Street, with “high quality finishes throughout,” “plenty of natural light, a…

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Apples-to-Apples for a Masterfully Rebuilt Victorian

December 5, 2023

Taken down to the studs in 2008 and completely rebuilt by a master carpenter/historic home developer with “no detail-expense spared,” the 4,100-square-foot, three-level Victorian at 2612 California was offered for…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods Trends

House-Like Russian Hill Gem Take Two

December 5, 2023

The three-bedroom Russian Hill townhome at 2201 Leavenworth street, which offers “fabled Bay views,” a remodeled kitchen with a restored Wedgewood stove, stacked parking for two cars, and access to…

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Revised Plans for Prominent Central SoMa Towers Under Review

December 4, 2023

While the plans for two swoopy towers to rise up to 425 feet in height on the northeast corner of 4th and Townsend were approved back in 2019, the ground…

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Asking Prices in S.F. Tick Down, Expectation Gap Up

December 4, 2023

Having dropped over 10 percent from early last year, the asking price per square foot of the homes on the market in San Francisco is now averaging around $970 per…

As Proposed City Planning Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Trends

Another Entitled Project Site Making the Rounds

December 1, 2023

Fully-entitled for the development of a 7-story, 78-foot tall building, with 60 high-end condos averaging over 1,000 square feet apiece and 5,658 square feet of ground floor retail space back…

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Asking Rents in San Francisco Drop, Down Year-Over-Year

November 30, 2023

The weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco just dropped back under $3,500 a month, which is 3 percent lower than at the same time last year,…

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