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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
As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Tower That Supervisors “Killed” Slated for Approval, But…

April 7, 2023

As we outlined last year: While the draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the proposed 27-story, 495-unit infill tower to rise on Nordstrom’s underdeveloped parking lot parcel at 469 Stevenson…

Apples To Apples Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods RealRecentReductions Trends

Luxury View Home Drops Further Below Its 2021 Price

April 6, 2023

Purchased for $5.15 million in July of 2021, the four-bedroom view home at 60 Clarendon Avenue, which steps down the slope of Clarendon Heights to yield 3,650 square feet of…

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Now Listed in the Red Atop The Summit on Green

April 6, 2023

Featuring walls of floor-to-ceiling windows with “unparalleled, panoramic views,” the two-bedroom corner unit #2905 near the top of the iconic Russian Hill “Summit” at 999 Green Street hit the market…

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Contemporary One-Bedroom Condo(s) Poised to Take a Big Hit

April 5, 2023

As we outlined last year, the 545-square-foot, contemporary one-bedroom unit #206 at 870 Harrison Street, which was built by JS Sullivan in 2015 and features “floor-to-ceiling windows with an open…

Bubble (Or Not) Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Home Buying Activity Suddenly Drops Despite a Drop in Rates

April 5, 2023

Following four weeks of increasing activity, which is typical for this time of the year, the volume of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for a home in the…

East Bay Industry Stuff Neighborhoods Real Estate Economics Rentals Trends

Asking Rents in Oakland Slip, Discount to S.F. Ticks Up

April 4, 2023

Having ticked up a couple percent in February, the average asking rent in Oakland slipped a percent in March to $2,600 per month. As such, while the average asking rent…

Apples To Apples Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods Real Estate Economics Remodeling and Renovation Trends

An Upgraded Archetype Edwardian Has Returned

April 3, 2023

As we outlined back in December of 2020: Purchased for $1.6 million in 2007, the interior of the “archetype Edwardian” at 4334 19th Street was remodeled, a garage was added…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Rentals Trends

Asking Rents in S.F. Holding Below Pre-Pandemic Peaks

March 31, 2023

With inflation having slowed, as we previously reported, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco is effectively holding at around $3,600 per month, which is 6…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Ticks Down but Holding at Over 6%

March 30, 2023

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked down 10 basis points (0.10 percentage points) over the past week to 6.32 percent. Or as we outlined last week, “the…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Home Buying Activity Inches Up, Only Down 35 Percent YOY

March 29, 2023

The volume of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for a home in the U.S. inched up 2 percent last week on both an absolute and seasonally adjusted basis,…

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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

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  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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