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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Recent Reader Activity
  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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