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Still Seeking Offers for Lux View Home Listed at a Big(ger) Loss

October 27, 2023

As we outlined back in the April, the four-bedroom view home at 60 Clarendon Avenue, which steps down the slope of Clarendon Heights to yield 3,650 square feet of conditioned…

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

Inventory Levels in S.F. Have Peaked, Reductions on the Rise

October 26, 2023

As projected, the net number of single-family homes and condos on the market in San Francisco appears to have hit its annual peak, with 6 percent fewer homes on the…

Breaking News Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

New Home Sales Jump as Prices Drop, But Inventory Inching Up And…

October 25, 2023

Having dropped 8 percent in August, the seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. jumped 12.3 percent in September to an annual rate of 759,000 sales,…

Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Real Estate Economics Trends

Pending Home Sales in San Francisco Have Dropped 50 Percent

October 24, 2023

While “only down 17 percent” versus the same time last year, the net number of single-family homes and condos in contract to be sold across San Francisco is over 50…

Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Marin (And Points North) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions

Entitled Slice of Paradise Has Dropped Over 70 Percent

October 24, 2023

Listed for $39 million in September of 2014, 2800 Paradise Drive in Tiburon, a 14.5-acre parcel of undeveloped land with 2,000 square feet of San Francisco Bay shoreline and fully-entitled…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions Trends

Architectural Significance in the Mission, Take Two

October 23, 2023

As we outlined last year, the two-level, 2,215-square-foot Mission District condo at 859 Alabama Street, which “epitomizes sophisticated San Francisco city living and offers a rare opportunity to own an…

East Bay Industry Stuff Marin (And Points North) Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Trends

Bay Area Employment Inches Up, Down Year-Over-Year

October 23, 2023

Having dropped by an upwardly revised 7,300 in August, the number of San Francisco residents with a job inched up by 600 in September to 557,600 but was down by…

Breaking News Commercial East Bay Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Real Estate Economics Trends

East Bay Office Vacancy Rate Hits 20%, Over 37% in Oakland’s Core

October 20, 2023

The office vacancy rate in the East Bay, not including Walnut Creek or further east nor life science/lab space, inched up 50 basis points in the third quarter of this…

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New Home Purchase Activity Drops, Average Loan Size Too

October 20, 2023

With purchase mortgage loan application volume for existing homes on the decline, application volume for new home loan purchases in the U.S. dropped 12 percent from August to September and…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions Remodeling and Renovation Trends

Billionaires Row Mansion Remodeled, Relisted, Reduced

October 19, 2023

Acquired by the founders of Bebo and The Battery (dibs on the band name) for $29 million in 2008, despite it not being on the market at the time, the…

Brahma (incensed renter) on Dolores Park Light House Condo Listed for a Million Less
I completely agree, and if you're looking for a natural test of whether or not the extremely heated market dynamics…
Brahma (incensed renter) on 141 Below Market Rate Modular Studios Even Closer to Reality
We now have two more recent data points. Tahanan Supportive Housing (at 833 Bryant St.) completed in winter 2021, was…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Beaux Arts Beauty Suddenly Back on the Market
Maybe the seller knew what they had, didn't want to take a more than $1 million haircut and was willing…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Contemporary Little Saigon Condo Listed for Nearly 30 Percent Less
The one-bedroom, one bathroom 719 Larkin &num;705 sold for $690,000 in November of 2019, conforming to building and neighborhood comps…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 -…
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…

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Still Seeking Offers for Lux View Home Listed at a Big(ger) Loss

Inventory Levels in S.F. Have Peaked, Reductions on the Rise

New Home Sales Jump as Prices Drop, But Inventory Inching Up And…

Pending Home Sales in San Francisco Have Dropped 50 Percent

Entitled Slice of Paradise Has Dropped Over 70 Percent

Architectural Significance in the Mission, Take Two

Bay Area Employment Inches Up, Down Year-Over-Year

East Bay Office Vacancy Rate Hits 20%, Over 37% in Oakland’s Core

New Home Purchase Activity Drops, Average Loan Size Too

Billionaires Row Mansion Remodeled, Relisted, Reduced

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