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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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Pace of Home Sales in San Francisco Continues to Drop

January 9, 2023

Despite the fact that inventory levels are significantly higher and asking prices have dropped, the number of homes in contract to be sold across San Francisco is down over 30…

Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Real Estate Economics RealRecentReductions Trends

Stickiness of Home Prices in San Francisco Is Slipping

January 6, 2023

Having dropped to its lowest level in five years last week, the average price per square foot of the homes which are in contract in San Francisco, which is a…

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Mortgage Rates Inch Up, Odds of More Rate Hikes As Well

January 5, 2023

While mortgage application volume dropped to a quarter century low at the end of 2022, despite a pullback in mortgage rates in the fourth quarter of last year, the average…

As Proposed City Planning Design & Architecture Industry Stuff Neighborhoods

Re-Revised Plans for Building Up on Geary Closer to Reality

January 5, 2023

As we outlined a few years ago, there was a fundamental problem with the proposed plans for a bonus-sized, 9-story development of “group housing” units to rise up to 89…

As Proposed Listings (for sale) Marin (And Points North) RealRecentReductions Trends

Price for Over 14 Acres of Paradise Reduced Nearly 70 Percent

January 4, 2023

Positioned as “the largest remaining undeveloped residential waterfront parcel in Marin County, and possibly the entire San Francisco Bay Area,” the 14.5-acre parcel at 2800 Paradise Drive in Tiburon, a…

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Mortgage Application Volume Ended 2022 Near a 30-Year Low

January 4, 2023

With the seasonally adjusted volume of applications for purchase mortgage loans across the U.S. having dropped 12 percent over the last two weeks of last year, purchase mortgage application volume…

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Supersized Plans for Proposed SoMa Tower Now in Play

January 3, 2023

While the City had balked at the proposed height of a 350-foot-tall tower to rise upon the former K&L Wine Merchants building parcel at 636 4th Street, after which plans…

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Expectation Gap Widens in San Francisco

January 2, 2023

Despite the fact that the average list price per square foot of homes on the market in San Francisco is already 10 percent lower than at the same time last…

Apples To Apples Bay Buildings Bubble (Or Not) Industry Stuff Trends

Contemporary Two Trades for Over $200K Below Its 2014 Price

January 2, 2023

Purchased for $1.2 million in April of 2014, the 989-square-foot, two-bedroom unit #808 in the Linea development at 8 Buchanan, a south facing unit with “soaring views,” separated bedrooms, ample…

Bubble (Or Not) Industry Stuff Listings (for sale) Real Estate Economics Trends

2022 Ends with Over 40% More Homes on the Market in S.F.

December 30, 2022

Having peaked in October, the net number of homes on the market in San Francisco has since dropped 50 percent with typical seasonality in play and driven by a pronounced…

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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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