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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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Average Asking Rent in San Francisco Didn’t Budge in Q2

June 30, 2023

The weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco effectively held at $3,600 a month in the second quarter of 2023, which is one (1) percent higher than…

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Developer Declares Bankruptcy, Development Further Reduced

June 30, 2023

With the financiers of the finished 25-unit development which is sitting vacant at 603 Tennessee Street, across the street from UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus, a block from Chase Center and…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Inching Up, Another Hike Looms

June 29, 2023

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched back up 4 basis points (0.04 percentage point) over the past week to 6.71 percent, which is 101 basis points higher…

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Asking Rents in Oakland Drop Below Pre-Pandemic Rates

June 29, 2023

Having effectively held for a quarter, the average asking rent for an apartment in Oakland has started to drop, ticking down a little over 2 percent over the past month…

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Refined Plans for Big Bus Yard Redevelopment Closer to Reality

June 28, 2023

A formal application to entitle the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s ambitious redevelopment of the Potrero Yard Muni Bus Maintenance Facility at 2500 Mariposa Street has been submitted to the…

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New Home Sales in the U.S. Jump, Discounting in Play

June 27, 2023

The seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. jumped over 12 percent from April (680,000) to May (763,000) and was 20 percent higher than at the…

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Index for Bay Area Home Values Ticks Up, Down 11 Percent YOY

June 27, 2023

Having gained a seasonally driven 3 percent in March, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay,…

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Model Condo Fetches Nearly 20 Percent Less

June 26, 2023

Listed by the sales office for $2.525 million or roughly $1,686 per square foot in November of 2021, the model two-bedroom, two-bath unit #30A in the twisty MIRA tower at…

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Moderne Penthouse’s New Owner Now “Motivated to Sell!”

June 23, 2023

We first featured the vintage penthouse unit #12 atop the Art Moderne Malloch Building at 1360 Montgomery Street back in 2009. Designed by Irvine Goldstein and built as an apartment…

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Re-Revised Plans for Another Overturned Development Approved

June 23, 2023

As we outlined last month: With San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors having overturned the revised plans for a 13-story, mixed-use building to rise on the site of the columned Fifth…

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    I completely agree, and if you're looking for a natural test of whether or not the extremely heated market dynamics…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Contemporary Little Saigon Condo Listed for Nearly 30 Percent Less

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  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. 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…

  8. 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…

  9. Notcom on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)

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