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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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Index for Bay Area Home Values Ticks Up, YOY Gain Slips

May 28, 2024

Having notched a month-over-month gain in February, as we outlined at the time, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area (i.e., “San…

As Proposed City Planning Industry Stuff Neighborhoods New Developments Real Estate Economics Trends

Builders Slow Their Rolls, Banking Entitlements in San Francisco

May 24, 2024

As we outlined at the end of last year, with values dropping, the cost of capital having jumped, sales down and developers getting squeezed or even foreclosed upon, the number…

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Expected Value of Rate Cut(s) Just Dropped

May 24, 2024

Having inched up over the past month, helping to pull the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage back under 7 percent for the first time since mid-April, the expected…

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Pace of New Home Sales and Prices Drop, Inventory Up

May 23, 2024

The seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. dropped nearly 5 percent last month and was down over 6 percent on a year-over-year basis and over…

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Massive East Bay Guest House Now Listed for $5M Less

May 22, 2024

As we first outlined back in 2017 when it hit the market listed for $13.500 million but failed to trade, the 8,000-plus-square-foot home at 3941 Happy Valley Road in Lafayette…

Listings (for sale) Real Estate Economics RealRecentReductions Trends

Price Per Square Foot for Pending Sales in S.F. Ticks Down, Not Up

May 22, 2024

With the net number of single-family homes and condos on the market in San Francisco continuing to tick up, along with the percentage of listings that have been reduced at…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Neighborhoods Real Estate Economics Trends

South Beach Apples-to-Apples and Return(s)

May 21, 2024

Priced at $1,249,000 million in 2015, which was in-line with the pricing and sales for other units in the building at the time, the 788-square-foot, one-bedroom unit #601 at 72…

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Number of Homes on the Market in S.F. Ticks Up, Prices Down

May 20, 2024

The net number of single-family homes and condos on the market ticked up another (1) percent over the past week with the number of new listings having outpaced sales. As…

Breaking News East Bay Marin (And Points North) Real Estate Economics San Jose (And South) Trends

Bay Area Employment and Labor Force Drop to Mid-2015 Levels

May 17, 2024

Having increased by an upwardly revised 1,500 in March, the net number of San Francisco residents with a job dropped by 5,400 in April to 533,700. As such, there are…

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Classic West Side Home Reduced, Listed at a Loss

May 17, 2024

Purchased for $1.750 million in September of 2022, which was $45K “under asking” at the time, the classic three-bedroom, two-bath home at 2627 30th Avenue, “steps from Pine Lake Park…

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