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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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Number of Homes on the Market in San Francisco Climbs

May 15, 2023

Despite a seasonal uptick in sales in the absolute and year-over-year drop in new listing activity, the net number of single-family homes and condos on the market in San Francisco…

Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods Trends

Entitled, Permitted, Excavated and…Stalled Out in Central SoMa

May 12, 2023

Entitled in 2017, subsequently permitted and having since broken ground, the excavated site, approved plans and entitlements for the 127-unit building to rise up to eight stories in height on…

Real Estate Economics RealRecentReductions Trends

It’s Not Exactly Cheap, but It Is Cheaper in San Francisco

May 12, 2023

As we noted earlier this week, there are over 40 percent fewer homes in contract to be sold in San Francisco than there were at the same time last year…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Neighborhoods Trends

$10 Million Cow Hollow Home Trades for Less

May 11, 2023

Having returned to the market priced at $14.2 million in October of 2020, been reduced a few times over the years and then relisted anew for $10.2 million this past…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Rates Inch Down, Probability of an Easing Slips

May 11, 2023

As projected, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage inched down another 4 basis points (0.04 percentage point) over the past week to 6.35 percent but remains 20 percent…

Apples To Apples Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Trends

Modern Noe Valley Compound Now Listed for 33 Percent Less

May 11, 2023

Redeveloped in 2019, the modern Noe Valley compound at 1647 Sanchez Street, with a primary residence, guest house (290 Day) and a total of 6 bedrooms spread across 6,000-square-feet of…

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Refined Pac Heights Home Drops Below Its 2017-Era Price

May 10, 2023

As we outlined last month, the nearly 6,900-square-foot, six-bedroom Pacific Heights at 3149 Washington Street, which was been completely restored and remodeled to yield “unparalleled luxury and refinement,” with multiple…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

$345K Over Asking! ($2.5 Million Under Original List)

May 10, 2023

The English Tudor “trophy home” at 3212 Jackson Street, a four-level, 6,100-square-foot home in coveted Presidio Heights, hit the market priced at $9.8 million three months ago. Reduced to $8.9…

Real Estate Economics Trends

Homebuying Activity Ticks Up, Still Down 32 Percent YOY

May 10, 2023

Having slipped last week, the number of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for an existing home in the U.S. has since ticked back up 5 percent on both…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Mortgage Credit Availability Back Down to a Decade Low

May 9, 2023

Having inched up 0.4 percent in March, mortgage credit availability, as indexed by the Mortgage Bankers Association, slipped 0.9 percent in April and is back to its lowest level since…

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  1. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern Noe Valley Compound Now Listed for 33 Percent Less

    152 days after after the revised listing mentioned in the penultimate paragraph above, 1647 Sanchez's listing was removed from the…

  2. Brahma (incensed renter) on “Full(er) House” Home Back on the Market

    Sold for 7.7 percent under asking. From India Roby at Architectural Digest, yesterday, in a story headlined The Full House…

  3. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Apparently, developers believe that S.F. doesn't have enough office space. But the vacancy rate is rising. According to an article…

  4. Brahma (incensed renter) on Construction of Prominent Hub District Tower Has Commenced

    Might have been underway when the above was posted, but we weren't kept plugged-in. Lendlease’s tower to rise at 30…

  5. Brahma (incensed renter) on Modern New Development Fails to Sell, Taken Back by The Bank

    Grubber2 pretty much nailed it. Sold by Avidbank to HSH Holdings for $14 million, or about 13.6 percent under the…

  6. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    My bad. Even realtor dot com is now showing that correct amount in its listing. I should have not taken…

  7. steve on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    I think someone mistyped the HOA fees. Redfin is now showing that as $1,764/mo. It doesn't change your main point,…

  8. Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops

    It's not all bad at The Millennium Tower, and we can take a look at the unit namelinked above by…

  9. Brahma (incensed renter) on Prominent Nob Hill Corner Closer to Proposed Reality

    Not only has the building — now dubbed Crescent Nob Hill — been completed since the above post, but certain…

  10. Brahma (incensed renter) on Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Hits a New High, Leasing Drops

    Probably won't meaningfully decrease the amount of office space on the market. Google is pulling out of it's lease at…

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