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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
Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

High-Tech Noe Home Drops Nearly 9 Percent

March 5, 2019

As we outlined this past October: The “High-Tech Noe Home” at 525 28th Street hit the market as new for $3.6 million in June of 2014 and sold for $3.65…

As Proposed Design & Architecture Neighborhoods New Developments

Plans for Three Towers to Rise on Shopping Center Site

March 4, 2019

With the master plan for redeveloping Parkmerced having been drawn, approved and underway, new plans to raze the adjacent Parkmerced Shopping Center at 33-85 Cambon Drive, which backs up to…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Neighborhoods

Designer Central SoMa Loft Nearly Fetches its 2014 Price

March 4, 2019

Designed by Adele Naude Santos, blending raw concrete walls with modern finishes, walls of windows, tiered ceiling heights and a “massive, sun-filled west facing deck” extending its living area, the…

Real Estate Economics RealRecentReductions Trends

Price Cuts Tick Up in San Francisco, Pending Sales Still Down

March 4, 2019

The percentage of homes listed for sale in San Francisco for which the asking price has been reduced at least once has ticked up a percentage point over the past…

Apples To Apples Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Trends

Quickly in Contract and Sold! (Below its 2016 Price)

March 1, 2019

The “fabulously located condominium” unit #1 at 1536 Pacific Avenue, which was built in 2009 and “designed to withstand the test of time with high quality materials, construction and finishes…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Sexy Time Redevelopment Closer to Reality

March 1, 2019

As we first reported last year: “Plans to raze the recently shuttered Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality building at 1523 Franklin Street and construct a decidedly modern building…

Bubble (Or Not) East Bay Marin (And Points North) Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Trends

Lowest Bay Area Home Sales in 11 Years, Prices Drop

February 28, 2019

The number of single-family homes and condos that traded hands across the greater Bay Area totaled 3,857 in January, down 14.9 percent on a year-over-year basis. And in addition to…

City Planning Transit

Master Schedule for Modernization of Caltrain Officially Slips

February 28, 2019

As we first reported last year, while the projected Revenue Service Date (RSD) for Caltrain’s electrification and modernization project hadn’t been moved from December of 2021, the projected timeline to…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Rates Hold

February 28, 2019

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage, which hit a 7-year high of 4.94 percent this past November, but has since dropped 59 basis points, was unchanged over the…

Trends

Pending Home Sales in the U.S. Tick Up, Down Year-Over-Year

February 28, 2019

Having dropped 2.2 percent in December, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index, for which 100 denotes “an average level” of activity, ticked up 4.6 percent in January…

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