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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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Timing for Hundreds of Approved Units Pushed Back, Again

March 2, 2023

As we outlined back in 2019: Speaking of previously approved projects that have yet to break ground, the entitlements for the 230-unit development to rise at 667 Folsom Street are…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Real Estate Economics Trends

Contemporary Two-Bedroom Trades Down 10% (From 2017)

March 1, 2023

As we outlined earlier this year, the “luxurious, high-style corner unit” #405 at 1450 Franklin Street, a 1,325-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bath unit with two private decks, storage and parking in the…

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Home Buying Activity Continues to Drop

March 1, 2023

Having dropped to a 28-year low last week, the volume of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for a home in the U.S. has since ticked down another 3…

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Index for Bay Area Homes Has Dropped 16%, Trending Down

February 28, 2023

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East Bay, North Bay and Peninsula – ticked down another 1.8…

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Number of Homes for Sale in San Francisco Keeps Ticking Up

February 27, 2023

Despite a pronounced slowdown in the relative number of condos and single-family homes newly listed for sale over the past two weeks, driven by sellers either being unable or unwilling…

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Pending Home Sales in San Francisco Down Over 40 Percent

February 24, 2023

At a time of the year when home sales typically start ramping up, the net number of homes in contract to be sold across San Francisco was unchanged over the…

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Pace of New Home Sales Ticks Up, Median Price Drops

February 24, 2023

The seasonally adjusted pace of new single-family home sales in the U.S. ticked up 7.2 percent last month to an annualized rate of 670,000 sales but was still down 19.4…

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Benchmark Mortgage Rate Hits 6.5 Percent, Poised to Rise

February 23, 2023

The average rate for a benchmark 30-year mortgage ticked up another 18 basis points (0.18 percentage points) over the past week to 6.50 percent, which is 261 basis points, or…

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Drawing a Line at Linea

February 23, 2023

Featuring “an ideal floor plan with bedrooms on opposite sides of the living space, tons of closet space, a contemporary kitchen with high-end European-style cabinetry, stainless steel appliances with a…

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Home Buying Activity Drops to a 28-Year Low

February 22, 2023

While home buying activity typically starts ticking up in February, the volume of applications to secure a purchase mortgage loan for a home in the U.S. dropped 18 percent on…

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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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