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Modern $10 Million Cow Hollow Home in Contract

April 21, 2023

Quietly purchased for $9.75 million in March of 2015, which was nearly 23 percent more than the home had fetched in 2012, despite the “short term hold” and it having…

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Bay Area Employment Inches Up, Unemployment Rate as Well

April 21, 2023

Having dropped by 5,400 at the beginning of the year, the net number of people living in San Francisco with a job has since ticked back up by 3,500 to…

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Another Dormant Development Site Making the Rounds

April 21, 2023

Plans for bonus-sized development to rise up to 65 feet in height on the the shuttered Firestone Complete Auto Care shop at 2800 Geary Boulevard and yield 42 “light-filled” residential…

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Oakland A’s East Bay Ballpark Deal and Development Is Dead

April 20, 2023

The Oakland A’s have finalized a deal to purchase a 49-arce site off the Las Vegas Strip, across the freeway from the T-Mobile Arena and a little north of the…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Ticks Up, Odds of a Hike as Well

April 20, 2023

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up, not down, 12 basis points (0.12 percentage point) over the past week to 6.39 percent. As such, the average 30-year…

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East Bay Office Landlords Trying to Hold Firm, But…

April 19, 2023

The office vacancy rate in the East Bay, not including Walnut Creek or further east, nor life science/lab space, which is a methodological change, ticked up 80 basis points in…

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Home Buying Activity in the U.S. Drops

April 19, 2023

Having briefly rebounded last week, purchase mortgage application volume for existing homes in the U.S. has since dropped 9 percent in the absolute and 10 percent on a seasonally adjusted…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Real Estate Economics Trends

A Quick “Over Asking” Lumina Sale!

April 18, 2023

Listed for $899,000 last month, the bright Lumina Plaza unit #7C at 333 Beale Street, a 916-square-foot, one-bedroom unit with a den/office and extra half-bath, was in contract within two…

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New Home Purchase Activity Inches Up, Average Loan Size Down

April 18, 2023

Mortgage loan application volume for new homes across the U.S. ticked up 10 percent from February to March with typical seasonality in play. On a year-over-year basis, however, mortgage application…

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Number of Homes on the Market in S.F. Trending Up, Sales Down

April 17, 2023

Having atypically ticked down earlier this month, the net number of single-family homes and condos on the market in San Francisco has since started to tick back up, driven by…

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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Modern $10 Million Cow Hollow Home in Contract

Bay Area Employment Inches Up, Unemployment Rate as Well

Another Dormant Development Site Making the Rounds

Oakland A’s East Bay Ballpark Deal and Development Is Dead

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Ticks Up, Odds of a Hike as Well

East Bay Office Landlords Trying to Hold Firm, But…

Home Buying Activity in the U.S. Drops

A Quick “Over Asking” Lumina Sale!

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