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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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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…

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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…

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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 Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval
From a piece by Jessica Blough datelined Oct 9, 2026 (Illegal former Academy of Art dorms are being turned into…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Drawing a Line at Linea
After a bit over twenty-five months since last changing hands, the 8th floor with no unit above and views from…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Price Cut for San Francisco Living at Its Finest
Follow-up: Brahma won, at only a 13.7 percent difference between the above-commented guess and the ultimate selling price achieved 1…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Best Two-Bedroom Quietly Trades Down a Million Bucks
All they needed to do was hold. Returning to market four years ago at the asking price of $6,950,000 (or…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Million Dollar Price Cut for Ken Fulk’s Opulent Magic Factory
If you're confused, it's understandable. For another piece of evidence, see this other site — which is not the listing…
Notcom on Million Dollar Price Cut for Ken Fulk’s Opulent Magic Factory
Call me confused, but this property's website https://www.3107th.com/ - it's own website??? Natch - shows a figure of $5.8. So…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Million Dollar Price Cut for Ken Fulk’s Opulent Magic Factory
Based on the reporting earlier this year in The San Francisco Standard, I would say he needs the money, largely…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Sellers at The Harrison are Taking Some Big(ger) Hits
It did languish on the market, for over 760 days. After originally listing in late May 2024 asking $1.275 million,…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Drops
Apt 35E at Apt 30A at The Millennium Tower was listed in mid-January 2026 asking $1,695,000 (or < $990 per…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Dolores Park Light House Condo Listed for a Million Less
While my selling price call turned out to be correct, the seller didn't have to wait until after the two…

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