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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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Beaux Arts Beauty Suddenly Back on the Market

October 10, 2023

Purchased for $7.3 million eleven months ago, the full-floor, two-bedroom unit #3 in the iconic Beaux Arts building at 1001 California Street has suddenly returned to the market with a…

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Trendy Two-Bedroom Drops Further Below Its 2018 Price

October 6, 2023

Purchased for $1.398 million in May of 2018, 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,”…

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Historic Hacker Church and Rectory Trying the “Auction” Route

October 4, 2023

As we outlined in October of 2019: Built in 1912, the 15,000-square-foot Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 906 Broadway was designated San Francisco Landmark #204 back in 1993. The…

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Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Ticks Up, Still Down

October 4, 2023

The net number of homes on the market in San Francisco, including both condos and single-family homes, ticked up 10 percent over the past week but was still down 11…

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Market Transparency in the Mission

October 3, 2023

Purchased for $675,000 in May of 2015, the 623-squaere-foot unit #308 at 1875 Mission Street (a.k.a. “M1875”) returned to the market priced at $649,000 two weeks ago, a sale at…

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Number of Homes on the Market in San Francisco Holds

October 2, 2023

The net number of homes on the market in San Francisco, including both condos and single-family homes, was unchanged over the past week, with a 2 percent drop in listings…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Nears a 23-Year High, Jumbos Jump

September 28, 2023

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up another 12 basis points (0.12 percentage points) over the past week to 7.31 percent, which is 61 basis points higher…

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High-End Pied-à-Terre Relisted Anew at a Larger Loss

September 28, 2023

As we outlined earlier this year, unit #2E at 288 Pacific Avenue, “the perfect SF pied-a-terre” and “urban home in a beautiful full-service building…directly across the street from the Battery…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Design & Architecture Real Estate Economics Trends

Apples-to-Apples for an Elegant Nob Hill Pad

September 28, 2023

Purchased for $1,275,000 in October of 2019, the “elegant and spacious” unit #502 at 850 Powell Street, an 1,800-square-foot, three-bedroom condo in the “fabulous luxury doorperson building” dubbed The Francesca,…

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Purchase Mortgage Activity Ticks Down

September 27, 2023

The number of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for an existing home in the U.S., which dropped back down to a 28-year low earlier this month, ticked down…

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