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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 Bay Buildings Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions Trends

Full Floor Russian Hill View Unit Drops Below Its 2006 Price

June 22, 2023

Purchased for $2.94 million in April of 2006, which was $310,000 “below asking” at the time, the full-floor cooperative unit #1 in the boutique 7-unit Russian Hill building at 2222…

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Homebuying Activity Inches Up but Drops Year-Over-Year. And…

June 21, 2023

The number of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for an existing home in the U.S. inched up 0.1 percent over the past week in the absolute and 2…

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Number of Homes on the Market in San Francisco Inches Up

June 20, 2023

Despite a pronounced slowdown in the relative number of condos and single-family homes newly listed for sale over the past couple of quarters, driven by a jump in the cost…

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Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Slips, Prices Too

June 20, 2023

The pace of home sales in San Francisco ticked up in May, as we outlined at the time, ending the month with just over 30 percent fewer single-family homes and…

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Bay Area Employment Drops, Down Year-Over-Year

June 16, 2023

Having dropped in April, the number of San Francisco residents with a job ticked down again last month, from 559,700 to 557,900. As such, while there are still 1,100 more…

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Lower Pac Heights Penthouse Just Listed for Over $250K Less

June 16, 2023

Purchased for $2,000,000 in February of 2018, which was $200,000 under asking at the time, the 1,375-square-foot penthouse unit #601 atop The District at 2655 Bush Street has just returned…

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Revised Plans for New Tower Approved for a Streamlined Review

June 15, 2023

The revised plans for a 35-story tower to rise up to 369 feet in height on the 90-space parking lot parcel at 395 3rd Street, on the northeast corner of…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Inches Down, Odds of an Easing Drop

June 15, 2023

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched down 2 basis points (0.02 percentage point) over the past week to 6.69 percent, which is 91 basis points higher than…

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The Other End of the Mid-Market Market

June 14, 2023

At the other end of the Mid-Market condo market, the three-bedroom, 2,569-square-foot unit #28D in the Four Seasons Residences at 765 Market Street sold for $5.475 million in April of…

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Mortgage Credit Availability Drops to a Lower Decade Low

June 13, 2023

Having slipped 0.9 percent in April to a 10-year low, mortgage credit availability, as indexed by the Mortgage Bankers Association, dropped 3.1 percent last month to its lowest level since…

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  1. Brahma (incensed renter) on Looking for (Another) Sub-2014 Priced High-End Loft?

    The owner apparently disagreed, and tried the leasing option. Roughly a month after the above main post, Apt 602's listing…

  2. Conifer on Seized Pac Heights Home Listed with a $14M Price Tag

    Perhaps Brahma should take over SocketSite and bring it back to life. I am just a long-term, half a century,…

  3. Brahma (incensed renter) on Seized Pac Heights Home Listed with a $14M Price Tag

    You were spot on for the selling price, but years off on the time frame. After several listing removal and…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Motivated Sellers Drop Price for Light Filled Dogpatch Loft, Again

    The AI Boom! continues to show the incredible impact of wealth creation in S.F. and on S.F. real estate. 578…

  5. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards

    Then the owner should sell the property to someone who can get the job done. Apparently the Y-I-M-B-Ys are apparently…

  6. tipster on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards

    Ha ha, "upon the slopped site" Little did the editor realize the foreshadowing of this typo in the 2019 post.…

  7. Notcom on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards

    I've never heard of a billboard holding up a project - and can a billboard really be "demolished"? - so…

  8. The Milkshake of Despair on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards

    No update, just a guess that the developer realized a modern new development was not going to attract the offers…

  9. Marcus on Modern Bayview Development on the Boards

    It's now seven years since this posting. Any update? Seems Mavrik Studio is out of business.

  10. 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…

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