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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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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Drops to Just Over 7 Percent

May 16, 2024

Continuing a trend that shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked down 7 basis points to 7.02 percent over the past…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Listings (for sale) Neighborhoods Real Estate Economics RealRecentReductions Trends

Contemporary SoMa Condo Re-Listed for Nearly 40 Percent Less

May 16, 2024

As we outlined last year, the 624-square-foot, one-bedroom unit #502 at 99 Rausch, which was purchased for $880,000 in May of 2019, establishing a new “comp” for other neighborhood sales…

Industry Stuff Real Estate Economics Trends

Pace of New Home Sales Activity Ticks Up, Loan Size Holds

May 15, 2024

With inventory levels now 45 percent higher than prior to the pandemic, having hit a 16-year high in March, mortgage application volume for new home purchases in the U.S. ticked…

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Purchase Mortgage Activity Ticks Back Down

May 15, 2024

Purchase mortgage application volume in the U.S. ticked back down 2 over the past week, both in the absolute on a seasonally adjusted basis, and was down 14 percent on…

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Hot Piedmont Home Reduced, Re-Listed, Reduced Again

May 14, 2024

Modernized without being “white-boxed” or stripped of its period details and charm, the Grand Tudor on a elevated corner Piedmont lot at 35 Muir Avenue hit the market priced at…

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Inventory Levels Still Ticking Up in San Francisco

May 13, 2024

As we noted last week, the net number of single-family homes and condos on the market in San Francisco was ticking up from a 13-year seasonal high, “driven by a…

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Pac Heights Mansion Priced for an Uber “At Asking” Loss

May 10, 2024

Quietly acquired by the newly recruited CEO of Uber for $16.5 million in 2017, the 6,200-square-foot, five-bedroom home at 3090 Pacific Avenue, an “impeccably remodeled” and light-filled pad “on a…

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Expected Value of Rate Cut(s) Holds

May 10, 2024

Having tumbled over the past two quarters, as we first outlined earlier this year, the expected value of the Fed’s rate cuts in 2024 is now holding, with the average…

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Modern Hayes Valley One-Bedroom Trades Down

May 9, 2024

Purchased for $779,000 or roughly $1,073 per square foot in February of 2015, the top-floor, one-bedroom unit #605 in the award-winning modern development at 8 Octavia Street, “ideally located just…

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Austin, We Have A Problem

May 8, 2024

Purchased for $770,000 in June of 2020, having been priced by the sales office at $839,500 in 2018, the 637-square-foot, junior one-bedroom unit #605 with a deeded parking space in…

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  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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