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Another Prestigious High-Rise Unit Drops Below Its 2016 Price

March 15, 2023

Purchased for $3.195 million in June of 2016, the 1,791-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bath unit #30E in the LUMINA tower at 338 Main Street failed to resell when listed for only 3…

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Mortgage Standards Tighten, Availability Drops to a 10-Year Low

March 14, 2023

As indexed by the Mortgage Bankers Association, mortgage credit availability in the U.S. dropped to its lowest level since January of 2013, with “all loan types seeing declines in availability…

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Exquisite Russian Hill Home Slips Below Its Pre-Covid Price

March 13, 2023

Having been “exquisitely renovated…with the finest materials, fixtures, and finishes, including the meticulous preservation of period details,” the 3,225-square-foot, four-bedroom Russian Hill home at 45 Glover Street, which includes a…

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Buyers and Sellers are Squaring Off in San Francisco

March 13, 2023

While 35 percent fewer condos and single-family homes have been newly listed for sale over the past week and month than over the same periods of time last year, the…

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Modern Hayes Valley Lily Pad Back on the Market for $3.6M

March 10, 2023

Purchased as new for $1.775 million in May of 2010, which was below asking and near the bottom on the Great Recession era market, the 2,800-square-foot “modern Hayes Valley sanctuary”…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Ticks Back Over 6.7 Percent

March 9, 2023

Following a trend that shouldn’t catch any plugged-in readers by surprise, the average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up another 8 basis points (0.08 percentage points) over the…

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Home Buying Activity Ticks Up, But…

March 8, 2023

The volume of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for a home in the U.S. ticked up 9 percent in the absolute last week, representing a 7 percent increase…

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Revised Plans for Supersized Tower Closer to Potential Reality

March 7, 2023

As we revealed earlier this year, plans for a supersized 522-unit tower to rise up to 451-feet in height upon the former K&L Wine Merchants building parcel at 636-638 4th…

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Inventory Ticks Up in San Francisco, Asking Prices Down

March 6, 2023

Once again, despite a pronounced slowdown in the relative number of condos and single-family homes that have been newly listed for sale over the past three weeks, a slowdown that…

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Average Asking Rent in San Francisco Inches Up, Inflation Slows

March 3, 2023

The weighted average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco inched up less than a percent in February to $3,575 per month, which is 7 percent higher than at…

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…
Brahma (incensed renter) on 141 Below Market Rate Modular Studios Even Closer to Reality
We now have two more recent data points. Tahanan Supportive Housing (at 833 Bryant St.) completed in winter 2021, was…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Beaux Arts Beauty Suddenly Back on the Market
Maybe the seller knew what they had, didn't want to take a more than $1 million haircut and was willing…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Contemporary Little Saigon Condo Listed for Nearly 30 Percent Less
The one-bedroom, one bathroom 719 Larkin &num;705 sold for $690,000 in November of 2019, conforming to building and neighborhood comps…
Aaron Goodman on Parkmerced: From The Plans To Develop, To The Plans To Preserve
Gabriel Metcalf should apologize, 6 national organizations signed a memo against the destruction of Parkmerced, and to date they have…
Notcom on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval
And don't forget the simultaneous implosion of the The California College of the Arts (CCA)...guess that move to SF wasn't…
The Milkshake of Despair on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval
The Academy of Art is a reminder of what the city has lost with the San Francisco Art Institute. The…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Academy of Art’s $58 Million Settlement Plan Slated for Approval
Here we are, more than six years later, and in a story datelined May 11, 2026 (Academy of Art sells…
Notcom on 2830 Pacific: A Tripling Of Taxes (At Half Off Initial Hopes)
Noted. But of course I'm more interested in (what passes for) journalism over at the 'Standard'": consider this remarkable -…
Brahma (incensed renter) on Coveted LEED Condo Listed Below its 2015 Price
Wound up closing at asking 39 days after the above post. Then something happened which appeared on the MLS like…

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Another Prestigious High-Rise Unit Drops Below Its 2016 Price

Mortgage Standards Tighten, Availability Drops to a 10-Year Low

Exquisite Russian Hill Home Slips Below Its Pre-Covid Price

Buyers and Sellers are Squaring Off in San Francisco

Modern Hayes Valley Lily Pad Back on the Market for $3.6M

Benchmark Mortgage Rate Ticks Back Over 6.7 Percent

Home Buying Activity Ticks Up, But…

Revised Plans for Supersized Tower Closer to Potential Reality

Inventory Ticks Up in San Francisco, Asking Prices Down

Average Asking Rent in San Francisco Inches Up, Inflation Slows

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